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Director of Clinical Services

Employer
WPF Therapy
Location
London, SE1
Salary
£60,000 pro rata
Closing date
23 Jun 2019

Job Details

Director of Clinical Services
Permanent - 28 hours per week

In 1969 our founders challenged the established ideas around who should be able to train as a psychotherapist and who should be able to access psychotherapy. 50 years later WPF Therapy continues to lead the sector in its commitment to making training and therapy accessible.

Our purpose-built training and clinic rooms are easy to reach, a few minutes from London Bridge station, WPF Therapy is a charity where our focus is on providing high quality therapy and training the therapists of the future.

We are now looking for an experienced Director of Clinical Services to run our psychotherapy clinics. Operating as a social enterprise, our clinics provide a range of talking therapies including short term, long term, group and individual, as well as placements for our Trainees.

We are proud of our reputation for quality and committed to making psychotherapy accessible, and whilst we see hundreds of clients each week, our main source of referrals is still personal recommendation by friends or family.

As Director of Clinical Services you will join our Executive Team and be responsible for administrative and clinical staff teams. Demonstrating professionalism and enthusiasm in your work you will be an experienced manager with the ability to lead, motivate and support professional, managerial and administrative staff and volunteers to deliver our Vision whilst modelling our Values. With proven results in developing contracted services you will have strong performance management skills and a working knowledge of the mental health sector. This experience will be supported by a management qualification or equivalent.

Hours: 28 hours per week 
Salary: £60,000 pro rata 
Benefits: 38 days leave (pro-rata) inclusive of public holidays and winter closure, Season ticket loan

The role: 
As the Director of Clinical Services, you will be part of our Executive Team and manage the performance of the Clinical Services and its staff in order to deliver an excellent clinical service. You will have Executive responsibility for HR including HR strategy. Working with the Board of Trustees you will contribute to the Charity’s strategic development.

Deadline for applications: 23rd June 2019
Interviews to be held on 5th July

TO APPLY AND FOR MORE INFORMATION:

If you would like to find out more about this position and to apply, please click the Visit Website button to be directed to our website, where you can download the job description and complete your application.

No agencies please.

Company

WPF Therapy is a charitable foundation which provides high quality, affordable psychodynamic counselling, psychotherapy and group therapy. WPF Therapy is also a training provider offering a variety of counselling and psychotherapy qualifications and courses. Based in central London, the charity has over 90 employees, 30 volunteers and an annual income of around £1.8m.

WPF Therapy began life in 1969 as the Westminster Pastoral Foundation. Founded by a Methodist minister, the charity was originally based at Westminster Central Hall. Despite its religious beginnings, the charity now independent of all religion and works with people of all faiths and none. It is aware that people on low incomes are more likely to suffer from psychological problems and aims to make therapy affordable, through for example, a subsided clinic and therapy fees based on household income.

WPF Therapy’s mission is to “help people with emotional, psychological, spiritual and relationship problems’. It has been providing both one to one and group therapy with the aim of improving quality of life for over four decades. The therapy is intended to aid understanding of relationship issues, build resilience, understand how the past affects present thinking and assist in managing depression, anxiety, stress, loss and traumatic experiences. All sessions take place in the charity’s purpose built HQ in London Bridge, which it has occupied since 2008.

According to the charity’s research, nearly half of the people who come in for an initial consultation cite relationship problems as their prime reason for seeking help. 55% of clients have moderate to severe depression and 53% moderate to severe anxiety. Almost a quarter of clients experience both.

Research also indicates that rates of recovery for the charity’s clients are higher than those reported by many other services. Evaluation of WPF Therapy’s CBT services has revealed that, among clients with significant psychological difficulties, 70% recover from their depression.

WBF Therapy is also a significant psychotherapy and counselling training provider, training over 1,000 people a year. Training takes two forms. There are introductory courses, teaching counselling skills for people in the ‘helping professions’ and the creative, business, legal and management fields. And WPF Therapy also provides professional psychotherapy training, which supplies trainees with practical experience of client work through the charity’s own psychotherapy sessions. Courses are validated by the University of Roehampton.

For vacancies within the organisation, WPF Therapy does not generally use application forms, instead asking applicants to submit a covering letter explaining why they are interested in the position and how they meet the person specification.

WPF Therapy is an organisational member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy and the UK Council for Psychotherapy.

Company info
Website
Telephone
020 7378 20032
Location
23 Magdalen Street
London
SE1 2EN
GB

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