Volunteer Clinical Therapy Lead

Are you committed to supporting the emotional wellbeing of survivors and marginalised communities through culturally informed therapeutic practice?

Tell My Truth and Shame the Devil C.I.C. is seeking a Volunteer Clinical Therapy Lead to join our founding volunteer team. This role helps ensure that all emotional wellbeing and therapeutic support offered through the organisation is safe, ethical, culturally responsive, and aligned with our survivor-led mission.

As Clinical Therapy Lead, you will provide guidance and oversight for therapy and emotional support activities within the organisation. You will work closely with programme teams, facilitators and safeguarding leads to ensure support is trauma-informed, culturally aware, and responsive to the needs of survivors and community members.

This role combines professional clinical insight with practical collaboration to help build safe and supportive therapy systems for the community.

Experience, Qualifications and Requirements

Essential Experience

• Professional qualification and registration in Clinical Psychology, Counselling Psychology, Psychotherapy, Counselling, or a related discipline (HCPC, BACP, UKCP, BABCP or equivalent).
• Experience providing trauma-informed therapeutic support.
• Understanding of how culture, identity and systemic factors affect emotional wellbeing.
• Knowledge of safeguarding frameworks and ethical clinical practice.
• Ability to assess risk and provide clear clinical guidance in sensitive situations.
• Experience supporting or supervising practitioners, facilitators, or volunteers.
• Strong communication skills, including explaining clinical concepts to non-clinical colleagues.
• Experience working with survivors, vulnerable individuals, or marginalised communities.

Desirable

• Experience working within community, grassroots or voluntary sector organisations.
• Interest in developing culturally responsive therapeutic approaches.

Qualifications

Current professional qualification and registration with a recognised regulatory body (HCPC, BACP, UKCP, BABCP or equivalent).

Key Responsibilities

• Provide clinical guidance to ensure therapy and emotional support services are safe, ethical and trauma-informed.
• Support the planning and delivery of culturally responsive wellbeing programmes.
• Advise staff and volunteers on safeguarding, emotional safety and appropriate support approaches.
• Offer guidance or supervision to facilitators delivering emotional support sessions.
• Review therapy guidelines, safeguarding processes and risk procedures.
• Act as a clinical point of contact for complex situations or safeguarding concerns.
• Support recruitment and training of therapy facilitators or volunteers.
• Monitor feedback and outcomes to help improve wellbeing programmes.

What This Role Offers You

• Leadership experience shaping culturally informed therapeutic support.
• Opportunity to support the wellbeing and recovery of survivors and vulnerable communities.
• Personal and professional growth within a values-led, trauma-informed CIC.
• The chance to help build safe, accessible emotional support systems.

What This Role Is Not For

• Individuals seeking purely traditional or hierarchical clinical roles.
• Those unwilling to work within a survivor-centred, culturally responsive framework.
• People expecting rigid systems without collaboration or community engagement.

A Final Word

Care is always about people, never just processes.

Trust grows through compassion, professionalism and accountability.

Confidentiality is part of safeguarding, not an afterthought.

Respect and cultural awareness sustain meaningful therapeutic relationships.