South East London Mind
Southwark, London
The Counselling and Outreach Coordinator role is key to SEL Mind's exciting new counselling service for Black residents of Southwark, delivered as part of the wider Southwark Wellbeing Hub . This full-time role will shape the Wellbeing Hub's provision to the Black community, expanding equitable access to culturally-appropriate support. As Coordinator, you will provide initial clinical assessments to prospective service users and coordinate a small pool of Trainee Counsellors, expanding future access to Black-led counselling. You'll line manage an Administrator who is responsible for scheduling and other practical elements of the service. You'll also work closely in partnership with community organisations to ensure relevant, de-colonial approaches, including maintaining a delivery partnership with Black Psychotherapy. The main working site is a community centre in SE5, and the community outreach work involves regular travel across the borough. You will play a vital role in building community trust, ensuring that we are creating routes into the service and continually seeking and implementing feedback. We are seeking a qualified therapist who is passionate about improving Black people's access to early mental health support. Relationships and partnership working is vital, so you should be able to work independently but collaboratively, to be proactive and show initiative. The role will involve: Undertaking skilled assessments of client needs and risks, taking into account the nature and complexity of presenting needs and suitability for short-term therapeutic work Recruiting and training volunteer Counsellors, ensuring trauma-informed work integrating spirituality and cultural values, using creative therapeutic modalities, and maintaining therapeutic relationships that honour diverse healing approaches Maintaining a live engagement strategy and actively reaching out with physical presence to grassroots organisations, faith groups, community centres, cultural associations, and spaces for people experiencing difficult situations including e.g. food banks and advice/advocacy organisations Contributing to the development and continuous improvement of the service, bringing recommendations to support the SWH's inclusivity and best practice This role involves providing culturally specific support to Black clients. Applicants must be able to demonstrate lived experience of, and deep cultural understanding within, Black communities, and the ability to build trust with Black service users. Successful applicants will be expected to undergo an Enhanced Level Disclosure and Barring Service check. Closing date: Thursday 7th May (11:59pm) Likely interview date: Monday 18th May We encourage early applications as we reserve the right to close the vacancy early if we receive a high number of applications. About Us SEL Mind supports people with mental health problems and dementia in the boroughs of Bromley, Greenwich, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark. We are proud of our diverse workforce and know that our organisation is made stronger by the variety of backgrounds, experience, and ideas within it. We promote a culture of inclusion and representation, and are working hard to build a workforce that even better reflects the communities we support. SEL Mind is somewhere that you can be your authentic self without fear of discrimination on the grounds of ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, neurodivergence, gender, age, lived experience of mental health problems or anything else that s part of who you are. Read more about staff benefits and why staff love working here on our website.
The Counselling and Outreach Coordinator role is key to SEL Mind's exciting new counselling service for Black residents of Southwark, delivered as part of the wider Southwark Wellbeing Hub . This full-time role will shape the Wellbeing Hub's provision to the Black community, expanding equitable access to culturally-appropriate support. As Coordinator, you will provide initial clinical assessments to prospective service users and coordinate a small pool of Trainee Counsellors, expanding future access to Black-led counselling. You'll line manage an Administrator who is responsible for scheduling and other practical elements of the service. You'll also work closely in partnership with community organisations to ensure relevant, de-colonial approaches, including maintaining a delivery partnership with Black Psychotherapy. The main working site is a community centre in SE5, and the community outreach work involves regular travel across the borough. You will play a vital role in building community trust, ensuring that we are creating routes into the service and continually seeking and implementing feedback. We are seeking a qualified therapist who is passionate about improving Black people's access to early mental health support. Relationships and partnership working is vital, so you should be able to work independently but collaboratively, to be proactive and show initiative. The role will involve: Undertaking skilled assessments of client needs and risks, taking into account the nature and complexity of presenting needs and suitability for short-term therapeutic work Recruiting and training volunteer Counsellors, ensuring trauma-informed work integrating spirituality and cultural values, using creative therapeutic modalities, and maintaining therapeutic relationships that honour diverse healing approaches Maintaining a live engagement strategy and actively reaching out with physical presence to grassroots organisations, faith groups, community centres, cultural associations, and spaces for people experiencing difficult situations including e.g. food banks and advice/advocacy organisations Contributing to the development and continuous improvement of the service, bringing recommendations to support the SWH's inclusivity and best practice This role involves providing culturally specific support to Black clients. Applicants must be able to demonstrate lived experience of, and deep cultural understanding within, Black communities, and the ability to build trust with Black service users. Successful applicants will be expected to undergo an Enhanced Level Disclosure and Barring Service check. Closing date: Thursday 7th May (11:59pm) Likely interview date: Monday 18th May We encourage early applications as we reserve the right to close the vacancy early if we receive a high number of applications. About Us SEL Mind supports people with mental health problems and dementia in the boroughs of Bromley, Greenwich, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark. We are proud of our diverse workforce and know that our organisation is made stronger by the variety of backgrounds, experience, and ideas within it. We promote a culture of inclusion and representation, and are working hard to build a workforce that even better reflects the communities we support. SEL Mind is somewhere that you can be your authentic self without fear of discrimination on the grounds of ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, neurodivergence, gender, age, lived experience of mental health problems or anything else that s part of who you are. Read more about staff benefits and why staff love working here on our website.
Place2Be
About The Role Place2Be is looking for a Level 4 Diploma Tutor. In this hybrid role, you will play a vital part in shaping the next generation of counselling professionals supporting children and young people. You ll plan, deliver and evaluate our innovative CPCAB accredited Diploma, provide high quality teaching both in person and online, and help create an inclusive, reflective and supportive learning environment. This is an exciting opportunity for someone committed to therapeutic education, Equality, Diversity & Inclusion, and ensuring trainees receive an outstanding learning experience. On site teaching takes place ion site in London. Key Responsibilities Plan, prepare and deliver the Level 4 Diploma curriculum in person and online Facilitate lectures, seminars, skills groups and 1:1 tutorial Evaluate and assess students through vivas, formative and summative assessments Provide clear, constructive written and verbal feedback Support the interviewing and selection process for new students Maintain high safeguarding, wellbeing and health & safety standards Contribute to curriculum development and quality assurance processes Attend team meetings, supervisions, standardisation workshops and moderation activities Promote EDI, anti oppressive practice and safe group dynamics in all teaching Stay current with research, theory and developments in counselling children and young people Key Skills & Experience Qualified counsellor/psychotherapist (Level 4+, ideally Postgraduate/Masters) Minimum two years experience working therapeutically with children in a school setting Registered/accredited with BACP, UKCP or HCPC Experience teaching or training counsellors/therapists Strong understanding of theory, child development and integrative practice Confident assessing academic and skills based work Commitment to EDI and working within difference and diversity Excellent communication, organisation and relationship building skills Competent with Microsoft Office and online learning platforms (e.g., Teams) Together we can change children s lives. At Place2Be, we believe every child should have easy access to mental health support whenever they need it. We create a safe place in schools where children and young people can open up without pressure or stigma, allowing our highly skilled and diverse counsellors to reach children, young people and their families who need us. For a career with purpose, this is your place. Recruitment Process: As part of your application you will need to answer some shortlisting questions. Please answer these as fully as you can, we recommend using the STAR model. Situation, Task, Action Result. Closing date for applications: Midnight on 12/05/2026 1st Interview date: 21/05/2026 Our Benefits When you work at Place2Be whether that's in a school, supporting families, providing clinical supervision, or in IT, Finance, or Fundraising every role can make the difference to a young person. To achieve this, we ask that you bring your best self to your role and our commitment to you, is to welcome you into our community, and help you progress. Because we know that you being at your best, means the best outcomes for the children we support. Here s just a few things we have on offer: Annual Leave that increases with service Comprehensive learning and development to enable you to progress your career 5% contributory pension scheme Life assurance of four times your annual salary A comprehensive employee assistance programme Mobile Phone Discounts (EE network) Wellbeing days to allow you some you time Christmas holidays closure period in addition to your annual leave We welcome applications from everyone regardless of age, gender, gender identity, gender expression, ethnicity, sexual orientation, faith or disability. We particularly encourage applications from Black, Asian and Minority ethnic candidates and disabled candidates who are currently underrepresented within our organisation. We are proud to be a disability confident employer and will ask you during your application If you wish to be considered for a guaranteed interview under the disability confident scheme. Under the scheme we commit to offering an interview to disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria as outlined in the job role. If you have any questions about the scheme, or require any adjustments to help you complete an application then please contact the recruitment team. We recognise that AI is becoming part of daily life and you may want to use it to help you format your CV, create responses to application questions or even help you prepare responses. AI can be a powerful enabler and we are open to you using it to apply for roles with us, but we ask you to ensure anything you submit truly represents your capabilities and viewpoint. We value honesty, integrity and creativity and want to understand what you will uniquely bring to our team. We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
About The Role Place2Be is looking for a Level 4 Diploma Tutor. In this hybrid role, you will play a vital part in shaping the next generation of counselling professionals supporting children and young people. You ll plan, deliver and evaluate our innovative CPCAB accredited Diploma, provide high quality teaching both in person and online, and help create an inclusive, reflective and supportive learning environment. This is an exciting opportunity for someone committed to therapeutic education, Equality, Diversity & Inclusion, and ensuring trainees receive an outstanding learning experience. On site teaching takes place ion site in London. Key Responsibilities Plan, prepare and deliver the Level 4 Diploma curriculum in person and online Facilitate lectures, seminars, skills groups and 1:1 tutorial Evaluate and assess students through vivas, formative and summative assessments Provide clear, constructive written and verbal feedback Support the interviewing and selection process for new students Maintain high safeguarding, wellbeing and health & safety standards Contribute to curriculum development and quality assurance processes Attend team meetings, supervisions, standardisation workshops and moderation activities Promote EDI, anti oppressive practice and safe group dynamics in all teaching Stay current with research, theory and developments in counselling children and young people Key Skills & Experience Qualified counsellor/psychotherapist (Level 4+, ideally Postgraduate/Masters) Minimum two years experience working therapeutically with children in a school setting Registered/accredited with BACP, UKCP or HCPC Experience teaching or training counsellors/therapists Strong understanding of theory, child development and integrative practice Confident assessing academic and skills based work Commitment to EDI and working within difference and diversity Excellent communication, organisation and relationship building skills Competent with Microsoft Office and online learning platforms (e.g., Teams) Together we can change children s lives. At Place2Be, we believe every child should have easy access to mental health support whenever they need it. We create a safe place in schools where children and young people can open up without pressure or stigma, allowing our highly skilled and diverse counsellors to reach children, young people and their families who need us. For a career with purpose, this is your place. Recruitment Process: As part of your application you will need to answer some shortlisting questions. Please answer these as fully as you can, we recommend using the STAR model. Situation, Task, Action Result. Closing date for applications: Midnight on 12/05/2026 1st Interview date: 21/05/2026 Our Benefits When you work at Place2Be whether that's in a school, supporting families, providing clinical supervision, or in IT, Finance, or Fundraising every role can make the difference to a young person. To achieve this, we ask that you bring your best self to your role and our commitment to you, is to welcome you into our community, and help you progress. Because we know that you being at your best, means the best outcomes for the children we support. Here s just a few things we have on offer: Annual Leave that increases with service Comprehensive learning and development to enable you to progress your career 5% contributory pension scheme Life assurance of four times your annual salary A comprehensive employee assistance programme Mobile Phone Discounts (EE network) Wellbeing days to allow you some you time Christmas holidays closure period in addition to your annual leave We welcome applications from everyone regardless of age, gender, gender identity, gender expression, ethnicity, sexual orientation, faith or disability. We particularly encourage applications from Black, Asian and Minority ethnic candidates and disabled candidates who are currently underrepresented within our organisation. We are proud to be a disability confident employer and will ask you during your application If you wish to be considered for a guaranteed interview under the disability confident scheme. Under the scheme we commit to offering an interview to disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria as outlined in the job role. If you have any questions about the scheme, or require any adjustments to help you complete an application then please contact the recruitment team. We recognise that AI is becoming part of daily life and you may want to use it to help you format your CV, create responses to application questions or even help you prepare responses. AI can be a powerful enabler and we are open to you using it to apply for roles with us, but we ask you to ensure anything you submit truly represents your capabilities and viewpoint. We value honesty, integrity and creativity and want to understand what you will uniquely bring to our team. We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
