Psychological Therapy Services Manager (10886)

Macmillan Cancer Support; Brighton; On-site; GBP 48,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

Macmillan Cancer Support is looking for a Psychological Therapy Services Manager to enhance cancer care services at their Brighton Horizon Centre. This role involves leading a volunteer team and providing crucial psychological support for cancer patients, while also managing partnerships with healthcare providers. Ideal candidates will have accredited counselling qualifications and experience in leading volunteer efforts.

Benefits

25 days holiday plus flexible bank holiday options

Pension matched up to 7.5%

120+ learning and development offers

Flexible working patterns

Holiday buying and selling scheme

Qualifications

• Experience providing counselling for health conditions including cancer.
• Knowledge of legislation and best practice in psychological therapies.
• Experience in coaching and supporting a team of volunteers.

Responsibilities

• Manage delivery of psychological support and wellbeing options.
• Lead a volunteer team providing therapy and manage student placements.
• Collaborate with NHS psychological therapy teams.

Skills

Counselling

Team Leadership

Stakeholder Management

Education

BACP or UKCP accredited post graduate (Level 7) Counsellor / Psychotherapist

Job description

Psychological Therapy Services Manager - Brighton Horizon Centre
Contract Type: Fixed Term Contract 12 months covering Family Leave
Hours: Full time (34.5 hours) , we are open to a conversation about how you work these hours
Location: Macmillan Horizon Centre, Brighton
Salary Range: £48,000 - £52,000

About the role

It’s an exciting time to join Macmillan Cancer Support as we have launched our new five-year strategy and work towards delivering our vision to do whatever it takes to get every person the best support today and spark a revolution in cancer care for the future.

In this rewarding role you will manage the delivery of psychological support and other wellbeing options provided by the Horizon centre for people living with cancer across Sussex.

You will provide specialist psychological support services yourself, while leading and supporting a large volunteer team who provide therapy, as well as mentoring and assessing around 12 student placements.

As volunteers are so crucial to the success of the Macmillan Horizon Centre, your ability to support, motivate and develop a team of volunteers will be essential.

You will also work in collaboration with the University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust psychological therapy team, other partners and volunteers, to develop an integrated approach to the delivery of psychological support.

About you:

The successful candidate will demonstrate the following skills and experience:

• BACP or UKCP accredited post graduate (Level 7) Counsellor / Psychotherapist qualification (essential requirement)
• Experience of providing counselling and assessing people for counselling with a health condition (including experience of cancer)

• Knowledge and understanding of legislation and models of best practice applicable to psychological support therapies.

• Experience in coaching, supporting and working with a team of volunteers (desirable) or a group of individuals
  
  
• Experience in stakeholder management, including the ability to build, develop and influence relationships both internally and externally.

In return, we offer a range of benefits including:

• 25 days holiday plus flexible bank holiday options, increasing by 1 day every year of service up to 30 days
• Pension matched up to 7.5%
• 120+ learning and development offers, with access to external professional qualifications
• Flexible working patterns, such as compressed hours, flexibility to work earlier or later around our core working hours of 10am-4pm
• Holiday buying and selling scheme, life insurance, free wills, retail discounts and much more

About Us:

At Macmillan you'll find talented people working together to do whatever it takes to support people living with cancer. We're going all out to find even better ways to help even more people who need our support. Our values are at the heart of who we are and everything we do, inspiring our thinking and guiding our actions.

Our new organisational strategy sets out how we’ll fight even harder to make every pound raised count for even more. With your help, we’ll transform cancer care for good.

Recruitment Process
Application deadline: Sunday 13th July
Interviews will be held on Wednesday 23rd July

The interview will be in person at the Macmillan Horizon Centre, Brighton and will consist of a panel interview, task and a tour of the centre.

To ensure fairness and consistency to select the best candidate for this role, all our applications are anonymised up until an interview has been confirmed.

So we can support you to be your best during the application or interview process, please contact Macmillan TA Team [e-mail] for advice and reasonable adjustments.