* Hybrid: Based within the GCA office in North Claremont Street, Glasgow
* Closing 3rd March 2025
* Advertised from 5th February 2025
* 28 hours per week, over 7 days (including evening and weekends). Flexible working, part-time hours, or job-sharing arrangements will be considered for the right candidate.
Role
GCA delivers services over 6 days per week and throughout Glasgow, East Dunbartonshire and East Renfrewshire.
The role of Head of Diploma and Training is to be responsible for the development, co-ordination, and management of COSCA counselling training and the delivery of the Diploma in Integrative Counselling.
GCA offers a number of COSCA validated trainings each year. These include the very successful COSCA Counselling Skills courses, with two options of study including in-person and online. The COSCA Counselling Skills course is a requirement for many courses offering advanced studies towards qualifying as a counselling professional. In addition, we offer a Certificate in Counselling Supervision, and the course Further Steps in Counselling and Group Counselling Skills as well as COSCA SACC Behaviour Change Course.
The Diploma in Integrative Counselling is a part-time 2-year course validated by COSCA. It is delivered in the evening and during the weekend in person at the GCA offices. The course consists of 400 hours of taught study with additional requirements for students of 40 hours of personal therapy and a 100-hour clinical placement with supervision at a ratio of 1:6.
The Diploma has four cohorts of students (two First Year and two Second Year) and approximately 90 students, with the majority attending classes and the rest completing clinical placements. Many of our students are supported to undertake their clinical placement at GCA. In addition to undertaking the Diploma, students are offered the opportunity to undertake a period of further study to complete a certificate in Counselling People Towards Behaviour Change. Many of our Graduate students go on to work in the counselling professions, and we are pleased that several former students have found roles within GCA.
The Head of Diploma and Training will support the CEO and Senior Management Team with strategic and commercial strategy to help GCA be sustainable and grow, prioritising achieving our mission and goals. This will be undertaken in conjunction with other GCA Senior Management Team duties.
In return for choosing to work for GCA, the benefits you will receive are:
* Very generous annual leave entitlement: full-time employees start with an annual leave entitlement of 37 days (inclusive of bank holidays), which increases to 38 days after 2 years, 40 days after 5 years, and 42 days after 10 years of length of service.
* 5 duvet days where employees may take time off at short notice.
* Death in service policy of 2 times salary.
* Cycle to work scheme where employees can save money on a new bike and spread the cost.
* Training and development commitment to help employees perform to the best of their abilities.
Organisation Profile:
Glasgow Council on Alcohol (GCA) aims to reduce alcohol and drug-related harm, and the risk of harm, at an individual and community-wide level, through a long-term, asset-based approach to changing the culture of alcohol and drug use. It does this by delivering a range of interventions and services such as alcohol counselling, alcohol brief interventions (ABIs), employability support and group work as well as delivering a comprehensive training portfolio, including Addiction Awareness, COSCA Counselling Skills and a Diploma in Integrative Counselling.
GCA has been delivering specialised trauma-informed alcohol counselling since 1965 to support those drinking at harmful and hazardous levels who wish to make a positive change. The counselling approach is integrative and aims to address the presenting alcohol problem but also work with the inevitable accompanying life problems related to it. In our experience, around 65% of individuals who access GCA will not have engaged with statutory services or recovery communities. GCA services have expanded to include a range of holistic services to support individuals in recovery from drugs and/or alcohol. Services we provide include counselling, wellbeing support, a women’s only service for survivors of gender-based violence, and an LGBT health and wellbeing service. Currently, GCA delivers services in Glasgow, East Dunbartonshire, and East Renfrewshire.
Please note: A PVG membership will be required for this post. This will be arranged by Glasgow Council on Alcohol. You will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK.
Closing date for applications: Monday 3rd March 2025
Date of shortlist meeting to select candidates for interview: Wednesday 5th March 2025
Date of interviews: Thursday 13th March 2025 / Friday 21st March 2025
Date for feedback for candidates selected for interview: Monday 24th March 2025
Date of appointment: ASAP
N.B If you have not received a phone call/email inviting you to interview by 5pm on Thursday 6th March 2025, your application has not been successful.
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