Clinical Practice Lead
Home-based (UK) with occasional national travel
About Us
At Family Action, we transform lives by providing practical, emotional, and financial support to those experiencing poverty, disadvantage, and social isolation.
Since 1869, we have been building stronger families, and today, we work with over 60,000 families across more than 150 community-based services. We also support thousands more through national programmes and grants, ensuring everyone has the tools to overcome challenges and thrive.
Now part of Family Action, Relate delivers high-quality counselling and therapeutic services to thousands of people each year. Our focus is on excellence, inclusivity, and ensuring every client feels heard, valued, and respected.
We are now looking for a Clinical Practice Lead to join our Relate Counselling Services on a permanent, part-time basis, working 22.2 hours per week.
The Benefits
- Salary of £28,800 - £33,000 per annum (£48,000 - £55,000 FTE per annum)
- Additional £480 FTE per year home-based allowance
- An annual paid leave entitlement of 30 working days plus bank holidays (pro rata)
- 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
This is a meaningful opportunity for an accredited clinical therapist with extensive post-qualifying experience and proven clinical leadership to join our compassionate organisation.
You'll have the chance to influence clinical practice on a national scale, shaping the future of counselling support while embedding reflective, psychologically safe practice throughout our organisation.
What's more, this part-time, home-based role will allow you to combine meaningful national leadership with greater flexibility, as we dedicate ourselves to investing in professional development, flexible working and long-term wellbeing.
The Role
As a Clinical Practice Lead, you will provide national clinical leadership for Relate's counselling services, ensuring high-quality, safe and inclusive therapeutic support for individuals and families.
You will set and uphold clinical standards, ethical frameworks and governance processes, ensuring all services are evidence-informed and consistently delivered across both digital and face-to-face settings.
Leading Clinical Supervisors, you will strengthen quality assurance, use data and research to improve outcomes, and embed reflective, psychologically safe practice across the organisation.
Shaping the future of Relate's services, you'll drive innovation, support workforce development and contribute clinical expertise to service design and transformation programmes.
Additionally, you will:
- Support recruitment, supervision and competency frameworks
- Shape new clinical models, digital services and product development
- Use data and research to strengthen practice and service outcomes
About You
To be considered as a Clinical Practice Lead, you will need:
- Accredited clinical membership with a recognised professional body (e.g. BACP, UKCP, NCPS, COSRT)
- Extensive post-qualifying experience delivering therapy to individuals, couples and/or families
- Proven experience providing clinical leadership and/or supervision across complex services
- A strong understanding of safeguarding, risk and clinical governance
- The ability to lead with credibility, compassion, courage and inclusivity
The closing date for this role is 12th April 2026.
Other organisations may call this role Clinical Lead, Head of Clinical Services, Clinical Services Manager, Lead Clinician, Clinical Practice Manager, Head of Therapeutic Services, Counselling Services Manager, Therapy Services Manager, or Clinical Operations Manager.
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 an 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 at Family Action. We know that greater diversity will lead to even greater results for families and children, and we strive for our workforce to be truly representative of the diverse communities we support. We offer a guaranteed interview scheme for disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role, and we will reimburse your travel costs if you attend an interview in person.
So, if you're ready to step into a role with real impact as a Clinical Practice Lead, please apply via the button shown. This vacancy is being advertised by Webrecruit. The services advertised by Webrecruit are those of an Employment Agency.
