Invitation to Tender - Clinical Supervision Support to Counsellors

Wexford Rape Crisis • Contract • Wexford, Ireland • 1w ago

Wexford Rape Crisis (WEXRC) Charity No. CHY 12420

Invites applicants to tender for Group and one to one Clinical Supervision Support to counsellors in the centre.

WEXRC is a service offering counselling to women, men and young people aged 12 and over who have experienced any kind of domestic, sexual or gender-based violence in their lives. In addition, we offer support counselling to a partner, family member or friend who is supporting the person who has been abused.

Clinical Supervisor Role:

We invite applications from qualified (minimum diploma) and accredited (IACP/IAHIP) clinical supervisors to:
Provide Clinical group and one to one supervision to our counsellors (To both Adult Counsellors and Adolescent Counsellors) on a self-employed basis for a maximum of a 2-year period.
Monitor client safety in relation to suicide risk and self-harm.
Assist in the on-going development of best practice models in relation to the clinical services and participate in the ongoing review of WEXRC’s clinical services and policy development.

Requirements:

Clinical supervisor needs to have an empathy with and understanding of the impact of domestic, sexual violence and gender-based violence.
Clinical supervisor needs a minimum of 3 years supervisory experience.
Clinical Supervisor must have evidenced skills, knowledge and expertise in Adolescent Development aswell as in an Adolescent Counselling service with Parental Support.
Clinical Supervisor must have evidenced experience of delivery and clinical support in short-term models of counselling.
Ideally have evidenced experience of Compassion-Focused therapy (and Polyvagal theory) Model of Counselling.
Central to this supervision model is on-going, regular, and formal communication between the Clinical Supervisor and Clinical Team Leader/Manager.

Other Requirements:

Candidates must have sufficient public liability and professional indemnity insurance in place/Up to date tax clearance in place/Supervision takes place on a monthly basis in the centre as such the delivery of supervision would take place in person with occasional facilitation online.