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Sheffield City Centre, South Yorkshire (On-site)
£32,000 per year
Part-time
Permanent

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Job description

Position: Counselling Manager

Salary: £32,000 pro rata, pension paid at 4% contribution 

Hours: 30 hours p/w

Days of work: Flexible but must include Thursdays 

Contract Type: Permanent 

Location: Snowdrop Project Offices, Castle Green, 7 Castle Street, Sheffield S3 8LT 

Benefits:  

  • 6.6 weeks annual leave entitlement (25+8 Bank Holidays), with additional days with 2+ years of service  

  • 4% Pension contribution  

  • Monthly independent clinical supervision, contribution towards CPD and pro-rata reimbursement for membership of relevant professional bodies 

  • Enhanced sickness pay  

  • Employee Life Cover  

  • Take your birthday off  

  • Salary sacrifice schemes- Holidays, Cycle to Work  

Reporting to: Head of Operations (plus funded external clinical supervision) 

Direct reports: 2x Senior Counsellors, counselling placement students and volunteers 

Collaborating with: Casework Manager, Community Development Manager, Policy, Training and Research Lead 

Welcome to the Snowdrop Project: 

The Snowdrop Project is the first organisation in the UK to provide long-term, community-based support to survivors of modern slavery and exploitation.  We aim to empower survivors of modern slavery and exploitation to recover from their pasts and rebuild their futures. We aim to reduce the risk of re-exploitation, to create and implement models of best practice and to share this knowledge with other agencies and individuals nationally and beyond. 

By joining our team, you’ll be part of a kind, passionate, and forward-thinking organisation making a real difference in people’s lives. 

About the Snowdrop Project Counselling Service: 

The Snowdrop Project Counselling Service stands as a beacon of hope, healing and humanity for survivors of modern slavery and exploitation in South Yorkshire.

Rooted in a trauma-informed, person-centred, and phenomenological philosophy, the service offers a compassionate and holistic approach that honours each individual’s unique journey. By removing barriers to access, fostering long-term therapeutic relationships and integrating innovative bottom-up approach. Snowdrop creates a safe and empowering space where survivors can reclaim their sense of self and agency. 

About the Role: 

Funded by The National Lottery Reaching Communities, we are looking for a passionate and motivated manager, who is aligned with our clinical approach, to cultivate and grow the counselling service in line with our mission to see survivors of modern slavery and exploitation recover from their experiences and thrive. This role is responsible for leading a team, developing the counselling offer and contributing to systems change within the UK through social policy and research.

What You’ll Be Doing:   

  • Leading and managing a team of counsellors, promoting reflection, wellbeing and innovation within the service
  • Developing our therapeutic service in collaboration with the counselling and Leadership team
  • Providing 1:1 therapeutic counselling service for a small number of survivors of modern slavery with complex needs
  • Contributing to the development of an evidence base for the service, delivering training and contributing to research

Please see the Job Description document for full details and the Person Specification 

How to apply: Click the CharityJob Apply button below. You’ll be asked to submit a CV and cover letter which details your suitability for the role (please read the instructions for completing the cover letter carefully- incomplete or irrelevant cover letters will be excluded) and answer a question about your right to work in the UK. CVs and cover letters will be screened and candidates will be shortlisted based on these.

We welcome every applicant and strive to create and promote inclusive teams. We celebrate difference and encourage everyone to join us, and to be themselves at work. 

Please note- we will not be working with recuiters for this post.

Application resources
Application Instructions

Please submit a CV and Cover Letter that addresses all the points detailed in the person specification, giving relevant examples which demonstrate your suitability for the position.

We will be shortlisting for interview based on the below scoring system:

0 – Weak Does not address the essential criteria
1 – Average Addresses part of the essential criteria, provides little detail
2 – Good Addresses the essential criteria, providing some detailed relevant explanations
3 – Excellent Provides a thorough, considered explanation that fully addresses the person specification.

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The Snowdrop Project View profile Organisation type Registered Charity Company size 21 - 50

Empowering survivors of modern slavery to rebuild their lives and thrive

Posted on: 03 November 2025
Closing date: 24 November 2025 at 17:00
Tags: Counselling, Gender / Gender Based Violence, Human Rights, Mental Health, Modern Slavery / Human Trafficking, Psychology / Therapy, Refugee / Immigration, Safeguarding

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