Senior Counsellor - Northamptonshire

Ready to lead something from the ground up? This is a rare opportunity to launch and shape a brand-new Day Rehab programme in North Northamptonshire, working full-time (35 hours per week). As Senior Counsellor, you’ll play a pivotal role in building, developing, and leading a high-performing counselling team, while making a real difference in people’s lives. You’ll combine hands-on clinical work with leadership, ensuring high-quality delivery, strong outcomes, and a supportive, motivated team environment.

What you’ll be doing:

• Lead, manage, and develop a team of counsellors, students, and volunteers
• Oversee delivery of a high-quality psychosocial/psychoeducational Day Rehab programme
• Monitor performance, standards, and client outcomes to ensure effective service delivery
• Hold a caseload and support client assessments, referrals, and care planning
• Facilitate team meetings, supervision, and staff development
• Ensure accurate records, compliance, safeguarding, and quality assurance processes

What we’re looking for:

• A qualified and experienced counsellor with leadership or supervisory experience
• Strong understanding of psychosocial and psychoeducational treatment models
• Confident managing teams, performance, and service delivery
• Passionate about delivering impactful client outcomes
• Organised, proactive, and committed to continuous improvement

This is your chance to shape a brand-new service from the ground up and have a genuine impact on how it evolves. You’ll be part of a supportive, values-driven organisation that prioritises quality, innovation, and client outcomes, while also investing in your professional growth and development. If you’re ready to lead change, build something meaningful, and make a lasting impact, this is your moment.

About Us: We are The Forward Trust, the social enterprise with charitable status that empowers people to break the often interlinked cycles of crime and addiction to move forward with their lives. For more than 25 years we have been working with people to build positive and productive lives, whatever their past. We believe that anyone is capable of lasting change. Our services have supported thousands of people to make positive changes and build productive lives with a job, family, friends and a sense of community. We are committed to our cause and the work we carry out as a charity.

Benefits:

• Flexible working
• Training and development opportunities
• Simply Health Cashback Scheme (optional)
• Season Ticket Loan Scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Crisis Loan Scheme
• Electric Car Scheme
• 3 x Wellbeing Days (pro rata'd for part time employees)
• Access to Blue Light Card
• 25 days (rising to 30 with length of service) Annual Leave plus Bank Holidays
• Contributory Pension Scheme – Employer matched contributions of up to 6% in the first two years’ service and up to 9% thereafter
• Death in Service Payment (2x annual salary)
• Critical Illness Insurance (subject to qualifying criteria)

Please note that we may close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications.

Diversity at Forward Trust: The Forward Trust commits to providing opportunities to everyone. We want to ensure we have a diverse team with a range of lived and professional experiences. This includes those with ‘Lived Experience’ of addiction, offending, or homelessness. When we recruit, we welcome applications from everyone. This is inclusive of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion and/or belief, marriage and civil partnerships, pregnancy and maternity and socio-economic background. Where operationally possible, we will consider flexible working requests and make reasonable adjustments for all roles.

To find out more about Forward’s commitment to being an inclusive employer and our current EDI strategy click here.

We want our recruitment process to be accessible to everyone. If you require any reasonable adjustments at any stage, please let us know.

Employee Screening and Eligibility to Work: Dependent on role you may be required to undertake a Disclosure and Barring Service Check, details of which will be shared with you at interview. If successful in your application, you will be required to provide eligibility to work evidence in line with the ‘Eligibility to Work in the UK’ requirements.

Our Commitment to Safeguarding: We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people, and adults at risk. Forward Trust follow safer recruitment practices and support a culture of openness and accountability.