Glasgow Council on Alcohol
Glasgow Council on Alcohol

Charity registered in Scotland SC014501

Glasgow Council on Alcohol is a leading provider of alcohol support and has been providing a range of award winning services across Glasgow and surrounding areas for over 50 years and has an excellent reputation for partnership working and a proven track record of helping individuals to achieve their goals.

Current vacancies

Top job! Head of Diploma and Training

  • Part time
  • £41,951 – £47,199 pro-rata
  • Hybrid: Based within the GCA office in North Claremont Street, Glasgow
  • Closing 3rd March 2025

GCA deliver 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 offer 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. 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 in the GCA offices. The course is 400 hours of taught study with additional requirements for students of 40 hours personal therapy to be undertaken 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 placement. 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 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 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 groupwork 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 and 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.

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Alcohol Counsellor

  • Part time
  • £26,002 – £28,891 pro-rata
  • On site: Based within the GCA office in North Claremont Street, Glasgow
  • Closing 14th February 2025

Flexible working, part-time hours, or job-sharing arrangements will be considered for the right candidate.

GCA deliver services over 6 days per week and throughout Glasgow, East Dunbartonshire and East Renfrewshire

Role:

To provide an alcohol counselling, advice and information service for individuals aged 16 and over with problematic alcohol use or affected by other people’s problematic alcohol use. The service will be provided from North Claremont Street Office and community settings.

There may be an opportunity to provide practice supervision to volunteer counsellors.

Key-holder responsibilities. The counsellor will have keys for the office and will open the premises on Saturday mornings.

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 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) was founded in 1965 and is the oldest established Council on Alcohol in Scotland. GCA is a voluntary organisation working to reduce the harm caused by alcohol misuse through the provision of a range of high quality advice, information, counselling, support, prevention and education and training services.

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Self-Employed Tutor

  • Part time
  • Sessional
  • Hybrid: Flexible base at one of the SACC partners locations (in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Fife and Stirling)
  • Closing 28th February 2025

Organisation Profile:

The Scottish Alcohol Counselling Consortium (SACC) is a small, member-led organisation of councils on alcohol and local, voluntary alcohol and addiction support agencies. Our member organisations all provide alcohol counselling or one to one support as part of their services.

Our aim is to make a meaningful contribution to communities across Scotland – by improving counselling and support for individuals and families affected by alcohol and other addictions.

The post is currently hosted by Glasgow Council on Alcohol (GCA) and the successful candidate will be employed by them. GCA is a voluntary organisation working with individuals, families and communities to promote healthy, happy and resilient communities free from harm caused by alcohol, drug and mental health issues. GCA’s mission is to provide evidence-based support to individuals, families and communities to improve health and wellbeing across Scotland.

Role:

SACC is looking to attract experienced tutors who are COSCA accredited as trainers to deliver SACC’s bespoke Counselling People Towards Behaviour Change (CPTBC) course.

CPTBC is a 30-hour COSCA-accredited course usually delivered over 8 weeks. The delivery is split between 70% in-person delivery and 30% online delivery. For more information, please see our website: scotacc.org/training.

SACC would guarantee at least one course delivery per annum, delivery location can be negotiated.

  • Flat fee per course for all aspects of delivery & marking: £2,500
  • Zoom use included on SACC Zoom account
  • CDP access

SACC adheres to the COSCA ethical framework for good practice in counselling, psychotherapy, and counselling skills. We also ensure that all trainers employed by SACC are members of COSCA and suitably qualified.

Additionally, the individual will be required to hold a PVG registration and have personal liability insurance.

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