Clinical Supervisor x3
Home-based (UK)
About Us
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.
Relate sits within Family Action, a national charity that has supported people through change, challenge and crisis for 150 years.
We are now looking for three Clinical Supervisors to join us on a part-time, permanent basis, working 20 hours per week.
The Benefits
- Salary of £46,984 FTE per annum (£24.42 per hour), with an additional £480 FTE per year home working allowance (pro rata)
- 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 jab vouchers
- Cycle to work scheme
- Investment in your professional development with ongoing quality training and career development opportunities
This is a rewarding opportunity for an experienced relationship therapist with significant couples counselling and sex therapy expertise, alongside supervision experience, to join our compassionate organisation.
You’ll have the chance to use your clinical experience to support other practitioners at the highest level, creating a wider ripple effect as you help ensure more individuals, couples and families receive thoughtful, high-quality care when they need it most.
The Role
As a Clinical Supervisor, you will support and manage Relate practitioners, enabling them to provide safe, ethical and high-quality relationship therapy.
Delivering individual and group supervision, you will help practitioners reflect on their work, develop professionally and manage complex or high-risk cases.
You will also provide guidance on safeguarding and risk management, escalating concerns where appropriate and promoting a strong culture of client safety and professional accountability.
Additionally, you will:
- Review and audit counsellor case notes
- Maintain accurate and confidential supervision records
- Support counsellor performance and development reviews
- Contribute to audits, service evaluations and quality reviews
About You
To be considered as a Clinical Supervisor, you will need:
- Significant post-qualification counselling experience in couples counselling and sex therapy with demonstrable experience providing supervision and/or oversight of clinicians’ caseloads
- Experience of working with individuals, couples and families therapeutically where complexities present
- Experience of working within a psychodynamic and systems approach with individuals, couples and families
- In-depth knowledge of safeguarding legislation, policies, and procedures relevant to therapeutic services
- Confidence using data, insight, evaluation and theoretical knowledge to drive clinical practice
- An understanding of quality assurance frameworks and their application in clinical or therapeutic settings
- A Level 5/Column B or above qualification in Relationship Therapy from Relate or equivalent training providers
- A qualification in Counselling Supervision from Relate or equivalent external training providers
- Registration as an accredited and full clinical member with an appropriate professional body organisation relevant to sector/therapy modality
Appointments are subject to satisfactory Safer Recruitment checks, including a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, where appropriate to the role.
The closing date for this role is 18th October 2026.
Interviews will be held on Microsoft Teams during the w/c 2nd and 13th November 2026.
Other organisations may call this role Counselling Supervisor, Therapy Supervisor, Clinical Counselling Supervisor, Clinical Therapy Supervisor, or Relationship Counselling Supervisor.
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 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 reasonable travel costs if you are invited to attend an interview in person.
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