Relate Counsellors – multiple roles available
Service: Relate

Salary: Relate Counsellor – FTE per annum, depending on training:
-Relationship trained: £38,961 (£20.25 per hour)
-Relationship + Family and/or Young People trained: £41,366 (£21.50 per hour)
-Relationship + PST trained: £42,809 (£22.25 per hour)

Pro rata: Counsellor 21 hrs: £22,113 – £24,297
Counsellor 28 hrs: £29,484 – £32,396
Additional £480 FTE per year home working allowance (pro rata)

Location: Home-based

Hours: Relate Counsellors: multiple roles at 21 (15 client hours) or 28 (20 client hours) per week

Contract: Permanent

About Relate
Relate is the UK's best-known provider of relationship counselling and the national specialist in intimate relationships. Every year we deliver high-quality counselling and therapeutic services to thousands of clients, making it possible for more people to make informed, realistic choices about love, sex and relationships.
We are committed to practice that is non-judgemental, culturally sensitive, and responsive to the diverse backgrounds, identities and lived experiences of our clients.

Relate sits within Family Action, a national charity that has supported people through change, challenge and crisis for 150 years. The family charity and the relationship specialists - together we are stronger.
Our clinical culture is grounded in reflective practice, ethical rigour and a genuine respect for the complexity of intimate relationships.

We are now growing our clinical team and are recruiting to multiple Relate Counsellor roles and three Clinical Supervisor roles (see our other advert for the Clinical Supervisor vacancy, ID 1887). Whether your strength lies in direct therapeutic work with individuals and couples, or in supporting and developing other practitioners through supervision, this is an opportunity to be part of the UK's leading relationship counselling service at a pivotal moment of growth and transformation.

These roles are for you if…
• You are committed to safe, ethical and inclusive practice shaped by client need.
• You value reflective practice and see supervision as central to doing your best work.
• You are confident working with complexity and risk and know when and how to escalate concerns.
• You bring a psychodynamic and systemic understanding of relationships to your work.
• You want to help shape the future of relationship therapy at national scale.

About the Relate Counsellor Role
As a Relate Counsellor, you will deliver high quality, clinically effective relationship therapy to individuals and couples, including short interventions such as One Session Therapy. You will work with clients facing a wide range of challenges, from everyday relationship difficulties to complex presentations, supported throughout by individual and group supervision.

Hours and working pattern: Counsellor roles are available at 21 or 28 hours per week. Your working week will include one morning plus either three evenings, or two evenings and a Saturday. We are particularly keen to hear from counsellors who are able to work Saturdays.

You will:
• Deliver safe, evidence-informed relationship therapy to individuals and couples.
• Keep client safety at the centre of your practice, carrying out welfare checks and identifying, recording and escalating safeguarding concerns promptly.
• Manage your client diary and maintain accurate case notes, assessments and risk records on our case management system.
• Take part in individual supervision, case supervision groups and counsellor drop-in meetings.
• Offer non-judgemental, culturally sensitive counselling that responds to the diverse backgrounds, identities and lived experiences of our clients.
• Keep your professional body membership, CPD and safeguarding training up to date.

About You
(for full details, see the job description and person specification)
You will bring:
• A Level 5 / Column B (or above) qualification in Relationship Therapy from Relate or an equivalent training provider.
• Training in One Session Therapy from a recognised provider, or completion of Relate short intervention training incorporating One Session Therapy.
• Full clinical accredited membership of a recognised professional body (e.g. BACP, UKCP, NCPS, COSRT), or working towards accreditation.
• Significant post-qualifying experience in couple counselling and sex therapy, with 200 hours or more of post-qualification supervised clinical practice.
• Experience of working psychodynamically and systemically with individuals and couples, including clients whose presentations are complex or high risk.
• Confidence using client management systems and following safeguarding and risk management protocols.

We are interested in hearing from counsellors who are also trained in Psychosexual Therapy (PST).

Working with us
As part of Relate's clinical team, you'll be employed by Family Action, which means you'll benefit from the infrastructure, stability and employment offer of an established national charity while doing your day-to-day work within Relate's specialist clinical team.

Benefits:
- an annual paid leave entitlement of 30 working days plus bank holidays (pro-rata for part-time roles)
- up to 6% matched-pension contributions
- flexible working arrangements and new starters have the right to make flexible working requests from day one of employment
- enhanced paid sick leave and paid family leave provisions
- eye care and winter flu jabs vouchers
- cycle to work scheme
- investing in your professional development with ongoing quality training and career development opportunities

Family Action are a people focused, can-do organisation, which strives for excellence in all we do and operates with mutual respect.

To Apply:
If you’re excited by the opportunity to deliver, or support others to deliver, high quality relationship therapy at Relate, we would love to hear from you. Please make clear in your application which role you are applying for. If you meet 80% or more of the essential criteria, we would still encourage you to apply or get in touch with us for a conversation.
• Click the “Apply Now” link below and fill out our digital application form
• Closing Date: 16th October at 23:59

Interview date: Across WC 2nd and WC 13th
Location: held on Microsoft Teams.
For direct queries or if you would like to discuss any aspect of the selection process or flexible working requests, please email: Bev.Reynolds@relate.org.uk

Our commitment to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion:
We are happy to consider any reasonable adjustments that candidates may need during the recruitment process and you will be asked whether you require any adjustments if shortlisted for interview. We also make reasonable adjustments on the job, where required.
We are committed to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion in all that we do and welcome applications from all sections of the community. Intersectionality is important to us and we particularly welcome applications from ethnically diverse communities, LGBTQIA+ candidates and disabled candidates because we are committed to increasing the representation of these groups across Family Action and within Relate's clinical team.

All candidates with a disability are welcome to apply under the Disability Confident Scheme and request priority consideration for an interview, provided they meet the essential criteria for the role.
To help remove financial barriers to working with us, we will reimburse travel costs if you are invited to attend an interview in person.