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:
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6.6 weeks annual leave entitlement (25+8 Bank Holidays), with additional days with 2+ years of service
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4% Pension contribution
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Monthly independent clinical supervision, contribution towards CPD and pro-rata reimbursement for membership of relevant professional bodies
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Enhanced sickness pay
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Employee Life Cover
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Take your birthday off
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Salary sacrifice schemes- Holidays, Cycle to Work
Reporting to: Head of Operations (plus funded external clinical supervision)
Direct reports: 2xSenior 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.