Job Opportunity
Special Terms: 0.7 FTE (26 hours per Week)
Part-time Permanent (Subject to funding)
Salary: £20,832 + 10% pension
Accountable to: Talking Therapies Programme Manager
Accountable for: Service users
Closing Date: 9am – 18th Feb 2025
Special Terms: 0.7 FTE (26 hours per Week)
Panel: Emine Akkunt, Sophie Lambe
LGBT Foundation is an impactful, vibrant charity with a wide portfolio of well-established services and rapidly developing new initiatives aimed at meeting the needs of lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans people. LGBT Foundation is looking for a High-intensity Therapist, who have completed, at least one of the following NICE-approved modalities:
*Please utilise the NHS Talking Therapies Manual, page 21 and 22, to ensure that your training meets the required competency levels for this position.*
The post-holder will be expected to provide high quality counselling services (Face to Face and Remote) to LGBTQ+ adults who are experiencing mild to moderate mental health problems (step3), working autonomously within professional guidelines and ethical frameworks. Therapy will be delivered in line with NICE guidelines, with the post-holder meeting agreed key performance indicators (KPIs) as set by the Talking Therapies Manager.
The post-holder will be expected to work closely with other Talking Therapies Service colleagues as well as the wider Services Team; ensuring that all clients receive a seamless service from LGBT Foundation; from referral to discharge.
We are taking positive action to encourage applications from people of colour (PoC) and other racially minoritised communities, trans*, non-binary, and/or older people (aged 50+), to improve the representation of colleagues from these communities in our staff team.
*Trans is an umbrella & inclusive term used to describe people whose gender identity differs in some way from that which they were assigned at birth; including non-binary people, cross-dressers, and those who partially or incompletely identify with their sex assigned at birth.
