About the role

Clinical Supervisor (Adults, Young People and Children)

Service: PARCS
Location: Hybrid – Homebased with some travel to Portsmouth, Gloucestershire or North Somerset depending on service needs

Hours: 7.4 hours per week, worked over 2-3 days inclusive of staff meetings and admin time (part-time)
Salary: £32,635 - £36,158 FTE per annum (£6,527 - £7,231.60 per annum for part-time, 7.4 hours per week)

Contract type: Permanent

Family Action & the Role’s Impact
At Family Action we support people through change, challenge or crisis. It’s what we’ve done for over 150 years. We protect children, support young people and adults and offer direct, practical help to families and communities.

We see first-hand the power of family to shape lives, for better or worse, so we speak up for the importance of family in national and local policymaking, amplify family voices and represent the changing needs of families in the UK today.

This is an exciting opportunity to play a key clinical leadership role across a group of specialist trauma-informed services.

Working in partnership with the Operations Manager and Clinical Service Managers, the Clinical Supervisor will support safe, ethical and effective practice across our counselling services and wider partnerships. The role involves providing high-quality clinical supervision to employed and volunteer counsellors, as well as offering clinical oversight and reflective support to frontline practitioners (staff and volunteers) working within associated services, including perinatal, SEND and other community-based teams.

Operating within the context of domestic abuse and sexual violence, the post holder will promote reflective, trauma-informed and survivor-centred practice. They will contribute to practitioner wellbeing, robust safeguarding, sound governance and continuous service development.

We are seeking an experienced and passionate professional who is committed to making a meaningful difference in the lives of those we support, while consistently upholding the highest standards of clinical quality, ethical practice and client experience across all services.

Main Responsibilities:
• Provide high-quality individual and group clinical supervision to counsellors, volunteer counsellors and frontline practitioners, ensuring practice is safe, ethical and aligned with relevant professional frameworks (e.g. BACP, UKCP, BPS, BAAT).
• Deliver reflective, trauma-informed supervision to those working with complex trauma, domestic abuse and sexual violence, supporting practitioners to work within their competence and maintain appropriate professional boundaries.
• Promote robust safeguarding practice, supporting staff and volunteers to identify, assess and respond appropriately to concerns relating to children and adults at risk, and raising safeguarding, ethical or fitness-to-practise concerns promptly with managers.
• Apply relevant legislation, statutory guidance and organisational policies within supervision practice.
• Maintain accurate, timely and confidential supervision records in line with data protection and organisational requirements.
• Contribute to service quality processes, including Ethical Practice meetings, and work collaboratively with managers to support safe service delivery, risk management and continuous improvement.
• Foster a culture of reflective practice, learning and wellbeing across staff, volunteers and relevant partner services.
• Maintain current professional registration and engage in ongoing continuing professional development.
• Work flexibly to meet service needs, including some in-person supervision where required.

Main Requirements (for details check the job description and person specification):

You will hold a recognised qualification in counselling or psychotherapy, alongside a recognised supervision qualification and demonstrable experience of providing clinical supervision. You will maintain current registration with a relevant professional body and practise in accordance with its ethical framework.

You will have substantial experience of working within a trauma-informed framework, ideally within domestic abuse and/or sexual violence services and be confident supporting practitioners managing complex risk and safeguarding concerns. A strong working knowledge of safeguarding legislation and best practice relating to children and adults at risk is essential.

You will bring the ability to promote reflective practice, ethical awareness and professional accountability, alongside strong organisational skills and confidence in accurate record keeping. You will be committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and motivated to deliver high-quality, survivor-centred services within a collaborative, partnership-based environment.
Appointments are subject to Family Action receiving a satisfactory disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Benefits:
- A pro-rata annual paid leave entitlement that commences at 25 working days, rising each April by one day, subject to a maximum of 30 working days plus bank holidays / of 30 working days plus bank holidays
- up to 6% matched-pension contributions
- 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

We are forward looking, ambitious and committed to continuous improvement. We are a people focused, can-do organisation, which strives for excellence in all we do and operates with mutual respect.

Our commitment to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion:
We are committed to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion in all that we do and welcome applications from all sections of the community / particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates, LGBTQ+ candidates and candidates with disabilities because we are committed to increasing the representation of these groups at Family Action. We know that greater diversity will lead to even greater results for families and children and strive for our workforce to be truly representative of the diverse communities we support.

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.

To Apply:
• Click the ‘Apply’ link below and fill out our digital application form
• Closing Date: Monday 9th March 2026 at 11.59pm

For direct queries or if you would like to discuss any aspect of the selection process or flexible working requests, please email: lisa.platts@family-action.org.uk

Appointments are subject to satisfactory Safer Recruitment checks, including a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check where appropriate to the role.

*Ordinarily Family Action appoints new starters at the starting point of the salary scale (with subsequent annual pay progression), unless you have experience that would justify appointment further up the salary scale or there are any other exceptional reasons.