Description
Our Membership Organisation client has a part time opportunity for an Ethics Lead to join them for this 21.75 hour per week permanent remote role.
To act as the single point of accountability for the ethics workstreams which enable members to embed ethical and professional standards into practice, supervision, training and research. To support the Head of Professional Standards to implement Professional Standards tactical plan and strategy in relation to ethical and professional practice across the counselling professions
Principal accountabilities:
To provide leadership for Ethics across the organisation and be the single point of operational accountability for the Ethics Service, the review of the EF and the development and publication of relevant materials and other member resources relating to ethics.
- To support the Head of Professional Standards to deliver on the ethics elements of Strategy via the implementation of the Professional Standards tactical plan.
- To be responsible for the implementation and dissemination of the Ethical Framework and professional standards through internal and external stakeholders to raise standards of professional practice.
- To provide leadership and line management for the Ethics Service Manager, the Good Practice Lead/Editor and the Ethical Framework (EF) Review Lead.
- To work with the Ethics Service Manager to provide responses to complex ethical queries received via the Ethics Service and the Ethical Framework dedicated email address, support staff with complex ethical queries, support the development of the ethical decision-making column and articles in Therapy Today
- To work with the EF Review Lead to ensure the EF review project remains on track and that any changes to the EF are appropriate for the current professional landscape
Knowledge & experience:
- Educated to MSc/MA level in counselling/psychotherapy (or related profession), with knowledge of a range of counselling modalities.
- Experienced accredited practitioner , with a minimum of 5 years post-qualifying experience
Experienced clinical supervisor, researcher, trainer and writer/editor
- Experience of leading a diverse team, managing performance and employee engagement
- Expertise in applying ethics to practice
- Ability to manage complex project work and meet deadlines
- Experience in setting and managing budgets
- Excellent inter-personal skills and the ability to communicate at all levels
- Good editorial skills
- Effective verbal and written communication, adapting to audience
- Ability to work within a team and on own initiative, organising and prioritising workload
- Good level of computer literacy skills across different systems, MS Office and ability to learn and adapt to IT systems
Interested?
Please call us for an informal chat about the role. If you have sent us a copy of your CV and not had a reply within 5 working days we would kindly ask you to assume your application on this occasion has been unsuccessful.
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