Selection Criteria for London Friend Volunteer Supervisor
Thank you for your interest in volunteering for London Friend as a supervisor. Please download and complete the application form here and we will get in touch shortly to discuss your application. If you have any questions about completing this form, please contact the counselling service on counselling@londonfriend.org.uk
At the moment, we have current supervision time slots of a face to face Supervision Group on a Tuesday afternoon (2-4pm) and an on-line evening Supervision group (2 hours - can be any evening). If these times slots are not suitable to you, we would still welcome your application as a Volunteer Supervisor and can discuss alternative time slots
ROLE DESCRIPTION
- To provide clinical supervision for volunteer counsellors in the London Friend counselling service;
- To meet the ethical baseline requirements of the BACP; this may be either on an individual basis or a group basis;
- To work in accordance with London Friend policies and procedures (equal opportunities, confidentiality, complaints, etc.), and lines of accountability;
- To attend meetings of supervisors or other clinical management meetings as agreed in the supervisors’ contract;
- To record supervision attendance, and to carry out other administrative procedures as requested;
- To provide short written supervision reports, within ethical guidelines, if required by the supervisee’s training institution, by London Friend or to support the volunteer counsellors in gaining accreditation;
- To supervise allocated counsellors’ clinical work so as to enable London Friend to fulfil its clinical responsibility to its clients;
- To undertake to receive supervision of supervision on a frequency to be agreed with London Friend;
- To undertake on-going continuous professional development that will support them in this role
Please note before filling in the form:
London Friend asks that you fulfil the following criteria:
Essential
- Must demonstrate understanding of and commitment to supervising in way that is affirmative of counsellors’ and clients’ identity as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender;
- Must demonstrate ability to deal with issues of sexuality and of gender, including a client’s uncertainty about these;
- Must be a qualified counsellor/psychotherapist with a minimum of three years post qualification experience;
- Must have some experience of providing supervision;
- Must have a qualification in supervision or be enrolled on a recognised supervision course;
- Must demonstrate ability to work with a variety of theoretical orientations;
- Must demonstrate a commitment to Equal Opportunities;
- Must demonstrate an understanding of the issues faced by people living with HIV;
- Must demonstrate an understanding of the issues faced by people with complex mental health needs
Desirable
- Experience of supervising individual, couple and group work;
- Experience of working within a low-cost voluntary sector counselling setting.
