Mind in Salford
Therapeutic Services Manager
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Therapeutic Services Manager
Therapeutic Services Manager Rainbow Mind LGBTQIA+ Service
Hours: 37.5 hours per week
Salary: £35,000 - £37,000 per annum
Contract: Fixed Term 12 months (with potential to extend)
Reporting to: CEO. The post holder will be a member of Mind in Salford's senior leadership Team (SLT)
Location: Mind in Salford, The Angel Centre, Salford M3 6FA. Hybrid working is appropriate for this role.
About the Role
Rainbow Mind is looking for a Therapeutic Services Manager to oversee our one-to-one therapy service.
We are looking for a visionary with expertise in therapeutic approaches and an unstoppable passion for LGBTQIA+ mental health. Someone who understands the health inequalities and barriers to accessing mental health services people from the community can face. Someone who is committed to change.
Overall Purpose of the Role
- To effectively manage and provide strategic and operational oversight of the Rainbow Mind counselling service and development of service provision.
- To ensure delivery of consistent, high-quality counselling across the client cohorts, supporting and empowering our service users, whilst ensuring clinical work is carried out in accordance with BACP ethical guidelines and Rainbow Mind protocols.
- As part of the Senior Leadership Team, to contribute to Mind in Salford / Rainbow Mind's vision, mission and objectives.
Main Focus of the Role
- To lead, develop, coordinate, and represent Rainbow Mind's counselling service internally and externally at Senior Management level.
- To conduct some clinical assessments and carry a caseload of counselling clients.
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Requirements
The successful candidate will hold a relevant recognised qualification(s) at a minimum of Level 4 Diploma in the field of Counselling or psychotherapy with a minimum of 300 clinical client hours completed. BACP Accredited Member status (or registered member of the UKCP) is desirable; candidates working towards accreditation are welcome to apply.
The Therapeutic Services Manager will:
- Ensure high quality and consistent delivery within the counselling service.
- Provide service-wide clinical oversight including safeguarding and risk monitoring.
- Manage and lead a safe, professional, sustainable, and accessible counselling service consistent with Rainbow Mind's vision, ethics, policies, and objectives.
- Line management of associate therapists.
- Provide a number of weekly assessment/1-to-1 counselling slots.
- Ensure service outcomes are effectively monitored and evaluated.
- Promote the profile of Rainbow Mind.
- Lead on the review and update of clinical literature, assessment processes, outcome measures, and clinical policies.
Benefits
- We operate a hybrid working policy meaning you can work flexibly, to suit your needs.
- We offer generous holiday entitlement which includes 27 days holiday plus 8 days statutory days and 3 days additional over the Christmas period (pro rata). Further, an extra day annual leave for birthday.
- Staff members are granted an additional 3 hours per month as well-being time.
- Our social secretaries team organise regular well-being activities to help with staff connectedness.
- We have an internal learning management system with access to over 4,000 courses to continue your professional development and skills.
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Application Details
Closing Date: Wednesday 1st July 2026
Interview Dates: Monday 6th July & Thursday 9th July 2026
Interested?
If you have the right skill set and you are passionate about the work we do, we would love to hear from you.
If you would like to find out more, please click the apply button. You will be directed to our website to complete your application for this position.
Rainbow Mind's Commitment to Equity
Rainbow Mind is committed to equity of opportunity and to creating a working environment where everyone is treated with dignity and respect. We actively welcome applications from people across all backgrounds and identities, and are particularly committed to increasing representation from communities that have historically been underrepresented in the mental health workforce. All employees are expected to uphold and actively contribute to our equal opportunities policy in everything they do.
Applications from people with lived experience of any of the intersections that Rainbow Mind work with are particularly encouraged. Rainbow Mind is an LGBTQIA+ led service and we are especially keen to hear from candidates who share lived experience of the communities we serve. This is not a formal requirement, but it is central to our ethos and to the authenticity of the work.
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