Psychology jobs in glasgow city, scotland
This new role calls for someone with a strong background in delivering and managing therapeutic support, a collaborative mindset, and a commitment to the emotional wellbeing of dementia carers. You will play a key part in ensuring our counselling provision is accessible, high-quality, and responsive to the evolving needs of dementia carers.
Job purpose
To ensure the delivery of safe, effective, and carer centred therapeutic support. This will include:
• maintaining clinical standards.
• managing staff wellbeing.
• supporting the development and continuous improvement of the service.
Key responsibilities
• Lead and manage the day-to-day operations of the counselling service, ensuring quality, efficiency, and alignment with organisational strategy.
• Oversee all case-management processes including allocations, assessments, waiting list management, record keeping and reporting procedures, whilst also delivering own caseload.
• Ensure the service complies with ethical and clinical standards.
• Develop and manage annual budget and plans, setting measurable KPIs, and monitoring performance.
• Develop strong working relationships across the organisation, supporting the work of the Comms & Growth team as needed.
• Line-manage counselling staff, overseeing recruitment, induction, appraisals, and ongoing professional development and ensure they have access to appropriate clinical supervision.
• Maintain clinical governance standards, manage risks, and act as the Deputy Safeguarding Lead.
• Oversee data collection, monitor clinical outcomes, and implement service improvements based on feedback and audits.
• Stay up to date with relevant legislation, professional guidance and sector trends.
• Undertake any other reasonable duties or responsibilities as required to support the effective delivery of the service.
Management responsibility
Line management of in-house and external counsellors.
Registered Charity 
11 - 20
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Thank you!
- Are you an experienced manager with a passion for assessment, awarding, and professional recognition?
- Do you thrive in roles where operational excellence, stakeholder engagement, and continuous improvement are at the heart of your work?
This is a fantastic opportunity to join a respected membership organisation as a Professional Recognition and Apprenticeships Manager, where you’ll lead on the delivery and improvement of apprenticeship and professional recognition activities in psychology.
Salary: £48,500 per annum
Employment type: 6-month FTC
Hours: Full-time, 35 hours per week (flexible and compressed hours considered)
Working arrangements: Hybrid – 95% remote, with occasional visits to office in Central London
Start date: As soon as possible
About the Organisation
TPP Recruitment is proud to be supporting a leading professional membership body in psychology. With a mission to uphold excellence in psychological education and practice, they are at the forefront of shaping the future of the profession. Their work spans qualifications, accreditation, and policy influence, and they are committed to inclusive, respectful leadership and a collaborative culture.
About the Role
As Professional Recognition and Apprenticeships Manager, you’ll take responsibility for all policies, processes, and operations involved in the Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner apprenticeship and professional recognition activities, including the Coaching Psychology route. You’ll manage a small team, work closely with internal and external stakeholders, and drive improvements to ensure quality, compliance, and candidate satisfaction.
This role is ideal for someone with a strong operational focus, assessment and awarding experience, and a background in awarding organisations.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage all operations relating to Apprenticeship End Point Assessment
- Oversee professional recognition routes, including Coaching Psychology
- Lead the planning, development, delivery, and quality assurance of assessment and awarding activities
- Collaborate with internal teams (Governance, Finance, IT, Marketing & Communications) and external stakeholders (Ofqual, Skills England, professional bodies, employers, apprenticeship providers)
- Monitor and report on key metrics and financial data
- Design and implement assessment and award strategies in partnership with committees and board members
- Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and government initiatives
- Evaluate solutions for quality, scalability, and sustainability
- Act as the lead for conflict of interest, maintaining independence between delivery and assessment functions
Skills / Experience Required
- Recent management experience in assessment or awarding body organisations, ideally delivering apprenticeships and/or professional recognition routes
- Proven ability to deliver work within agreed time, cost, and quality parameters
- Experience in devising, implementing, and improving systems and processes
- Track record of delivering high standards of service and handling enquiries/complaints
- Strong project management and planning skills
- Budget management experience
- Knowledge of learner management systems, virtual learning environments, and government education policy
- Excellent written and oral communication skills, including report writing and presentations
- Commercial awareness and acumen
- Strong relationship-building and interpersonal skills
- High level of IT literacy (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and numeracy
- Commitment to fairness, respect, and customer service
To Apply
- CV only, no covering letter required
Deadline
- There is no formal closing date – applications will be considered as they are received.
We want you to have every opportunity to demonstrate your skills, ability and potential; please contact us if you require any assistance or adjustment so that we can help with making the application process work for you.
Thank you!
We are recruiting a Suicide Prevention Officer to facilitate the development, sale and delivery of high quality and impactful training and education programmes, upskilling individuals and organisations in how to prevent suicide.
What you will do:
- Facilitate in-person and online training sessions, ensuring interactive and impactful learning experiences.
- Develop and promote PAPYRUS’s training offer, tailoring to stakeholder needs and securing sales.
- Build relationships and partnerships to expand our reach and influence.
- Support the creation of e-learning and digital training resources.
- Prepare stakeholders for, and debrief them after, suicide interventions.
- Stay informed of best practice and national strategy, contribute to campaigns, and represent PAPYRUS in the media and at events.
- Champion safeguarding, health and safety, and equality across all activity.
To be successful in this role you will have:
- A degree or professional qualification in a relevant field such as Education, Counselling, Training, Psychology, Community Development or Youth Work.
- A recognised training qualification or willingness to work towards one.
- Experience in delivering and developing training programmes and community-based projects.
- Ability to manage sensitive conversations and facilitate learning in emotionally complex areas.
- Strong relationship-building, presentation and time management skills.
- Professional curiosity, resilience, and a commitment to safeguarding.
- Confidence in working independently and remotely, with ability to travel as required.
Please visit the careers site for the full job description and person specification for the role.
Salary: £31,537 per annum (Scale SCP 18) progressing by increments to £34,434 per annum (Scale SCP 23)
Hours: 36 hours per week
Location: Home-based to cover the South-Central region primarily (i.e. Swindon, Hampshire, Surrey, Berkshire, Oxfordshire) alongside the wider South and East England Area.
Contract: Permanent
Benefits: You will receive 28 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays (pro rata for part time workers), hybrid and flexible working arrangements, an attractive pension scheme, Simply Health membership, enhanced sick pay and enhanced parental pay. Please visit our website for more details.
Closing date: Sunday 12th October 2025
We reserve the right to close the vacancy earlier if we receive sufficient applications so, please submit your application as soon as possible.
PAPYRUS is committed to the principle of equal opportunity in employment and its recruitment policies are designed to ensure that no job applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of age, disability, gender re-assignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation.
PAPYRUS is committed to safeguarding all children, young people and adults at risk that interact with the organisation. The organisation recognises its responsibility to safeguard the welfare of these vulnerable groups by a commitment to procedures to protect them. The charity expects all staff and volunteers to fully support and promote these commitments.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.