Job Title

Location

Hybrid working – Warrington and home working

Reports to

Head of EAP

Job Summary

We provide a 24/7 confidential mental health and wellbeing support service to our client’s employees nationwide. Individuals can call our helpline to speak to a qualified counsellor about issues such as depression, anxiety, stress, debt advice and family issues.   As an EAP Counselling Manager, you will be pivotal in delivering outstanding service for our clients.

You will play a vital role in delivering outstanding service for clients,  through the effective management & development of your team, providing effective coaching,  support and direction,  fostering a client centric approach.  You will be working with key stakeholders and clients directly, leveraging stakeholder relationships, delivering against key client KPI’s and Service Levels and maintaining outstanding levels of engagement within the team, creating a culture of belonging for our people and clients.

Hours

40 hours per week – 9am to 5:30pm

Job Role & Responsibilities

• Lead a team of EAP counsellors and case workers
• Ensure all of the team are reaching their daily goals, reviewing this on a daily, weekly and monthly basis.
• To drive performance across the EAP helpline team to deliver the highest level of support to all our PAM Wellbeing service users in a timely manner.
• To support team and give clear guidance on risk and/or safeguarding cases ensuring policies are followed at all times.
• To provide clinical leadership, debriefs, and day to day guidance whilst driving a ‘Can Do’ ethos across the team
• To help transform and grow the EAP service, develop the service by providing clients various ways of accessing support and therapy, via our helpline and digital platforms.
• Increase efficiencies within the team, creating a client centric approach, ensuring a high degree of team compliance with all protocols and processes, ensuring team deliver against business plans and strategy.
• To maintain clinical and operational oversight of policies and protocols, ensuring team compliance and awareness of key protocols, whilst working cross-departmentally ensuring consistent approach achieved where needed.
• Assist the Head of EAP with the development and continuous improvement of services, primarily in the clinical operational management and development of the EAP team.
• Complete monthly audits, providing qualitative in the moment coaching to enhance the quality of service to our clients.
• Ensure team absence management procedures are adhered to within a timely manner
• Deliver induction training for new EAP colleagues, and shape and deliver training programme for existing team members, including counsellors and case workers.  Identifying training needs and matching accordingly.
• Develop and deliver training plans, including mandatory training required, providing staff the tools to carry out their role safely, robustly, meeting clients needs at every level.
• Attend customer review meetings to provide high level insight and act as a point of contact for any clinical queries.
• To act as a key point of contact for senior leadership team and stakeholders, acting as a key focal point for problem solving and maintaining clinical standards across the operation, including handling of client escalations and complaint resolution.
• To deputise for Head of EAP Operations and step up in their absence, reporting to senior leadership team and providing support as and when needed.
• To support business continuity plans, service levels, taking flexible approach to lead and respond to clients needs including supporting team on adhoc basis when demand requires, including helpline support and assessments.

NOTE: This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities or qualifications associated with the job. Other duties may be assigned.

Qualifications and Experience

Essential:

• Recognised Counselling Qualification – Minimum Level 4 diploma
• BACP registered member, NCS registered member or BABCP registered member (preferably working towards accredited status)
• Passionate about supporting their colleagues to be the best they can be
• Enthusiastic, and motivated individuals who are focused on providing client-centred care of the highest quality
• Experienced & proven People Manager, with experience of managing teams, driving performance management culture, including personal development plans, conducting 121’s, annual performance reviews, team meetings and supervision.
• Experience of working with senior stakeholders & senior leadership team,  must have excellent communication skillset, and experience of working directly with senior key stakeholders and clients, leveraging relationships and being key point of contact for service delivery.
• Analytical skillset with proven ability to interpret data and M.I., with ability to identify areas for improvement and tackle issues proactively that arise, with client centric approach, delivering outstanding client and people results.
• Proven ability of driving a ‘Can Do’ ethos within a team, strong motivational, engagement skillset, enabling others to perform at their best, with demonstratable track record of team success.

Desirable:

• Experience of working in a helpline/contact centre/ customer service environment/EAP leadership role.
• Experience of working in an EAP operation, managing both Clinicians and Support Team Members.
• Experience of delivering training, induction training and creating training plans, enabling teams to grow and build on existing knowledge base for continuous improvement and delivery of service.

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