Job Details
Location: London
Salary : £38,000 – £41,000 FTE
Closing Date: Monday 1st December 2025
Step Forward is seeking a Senior Counsellor and Wellbeing Worker to provide high quality therapeutic support to young people and clinical supervision to honorary counsellors. This is an exciting opportunity to make a meaningful impact in the lives of young people aged 11–25 years and combine direct therapeutic work with leadership responsibilities. You will be a passionate and skilled individual that will help us to shape services that reach young people facing complex challenges in East London.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide high quality and confidential 1:1 counselling and wellbeing support in a range of settings
- Deliver clinical supervision to Step Forward honorary counsellors/therapists
- Facilitate small group sessions and wellbeing workshops
- Support engagement with young people who are less likely to access traditional mental health services
- Lead and/or contribute to service improvement initiatives
- Monitor and evidence the impact of therapeutic interventions
- Build and sustain partnerships with external agencies (e.g. CAMHS, schools)
About You
- A recognised qualification in Counselling or Psychotherapy (accredited or working towards)
- Supervision qualification and experience providing clinical supervision to practitioners
- Extensive experience delivering evidence-based short, medium, and long-term therapy
- Experience supporting young people with a wide range of presenting issues (e.g. anxiety, depression, bereavement, trauma, abuse, identity and relationships)
- Minimum 2 years’ counselling experience with young people aged 11–25
- Experience working in school and multi-agency environments
- A commitment to holistic, young people centred care
- Strong safeguarding expertise, including managing complex cases and multi-agency working
- Leadership and/or mentoring skills to support colleague’s professional development
Working with Step Forward
We pride ourselves on providing inclusive, flexible, professional and young people friendly counselling and wellbeing support services. We provide services both in our own purpose built centre and also on an outreach basis in schools and community/ youth settings.
As Step Forward is a small charity our multi-disciplinary team work closely together to provide a holistic support service to young people. We expect all members of the team to take part in activities which help ensure the smooth running of the organisation and help us to reach organisational objectives.
Why Join Us
Work in a small, dedicated organisation where your expertise directly influences children and young people’s lives. Join a passionate and reflective team of staff and volunteers who embrace and uphold our organisational ethos and values to ensure we are: Inclusive, Warm, Empowering, Inspirational and Innovative.
Other terms/benefits include:
- 35 hour working week
- Generous holiday allowance -28 days per year plus bank holidays (FTE)
- Additional 3 days due to organisational closure between Christmas and new years
- Employer pension contribution of 5%
- Access to enhanced sick leave after probation
- Ongoing learning and development opportunities
- Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption leave and pay
- Hybrid and remote working potential where organisational requirements allow
How to Apply
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