Work with BACP
Gain experience and support your profession

You'll have the chance to work alongside other dedicated professionals to make a real difference to people affected by mental health conditions.

We have several different roles with varying time commitments. Any time you can give really does matter.

What you get:

• valuable and rewarding experience
• opportunities to develop your skills and enhance your CV
• induction and relevant training
• full support from our dedicated team
• agreed out of pocket expenses

"I wanted to make a contribution to change in areas I am passionate about."

Natalie Bailey, Chair of BACP

We're recruiting for a professional to become the Chair of our Public Protection Committee. The Chair of the Committee will be an externally appointed Lay Member who will also become a Trustee of the Association. 

The Public Protection Committee will develop the BACP Register, develop our professional conduct function and provide quality assurance for professional conduct and register activities.  

If you're a professional who could help shape the future counselling and psychotherapy landscape, we invite you to apply to join one of our Board delegated committees.

Our committees are responsible for supporting the development and ongoing delivery of the organisation’s strategy as well as providing the oversight that ensures our polices and processes are being applied consistently and effectively. As a member of one of our committees, you'll have the opportunity to contribute directly to the way the organisation operates and have oversight of the various workstreams held by each committee.

The Good Practice Steering Group (GPSG) supports the implementation of BACP’s Ethical Framework within member practice and develops evidence informed Good Practice in Action (GPiA) resources in the interests of clients, members and other stakeholders. 

The group works in collaboration with BACP staff, who publish and review the BACP Ethical Framework and manage the commissioning and editing of the good practice resources. We're looking to recruit people who'll reflect the diversity and experience within the BACP membership. You'll need a breadth of knowledge as a therapist and be passionate about ethics.

We’ve launched an online Communities of Practice that provides members with a space to share best practice, knowledge, learning and experience while participating in discussions with other members.

To support this, we’re looking for members to become Communities Champions who will work with the BACP Communities of Practice Lead to tend to a community on a regular basis. This role will also require Communities Champions to create up to two discussion topics per month to help encourage discussion within their community.

We’re currently looking for new executive members to join each of our seven divisions. Each division is led by an executive of up to 10 members who run their own meetings, formulate strategies in line with our objectives and actively support us to promote their sector.

As a divisional executive you’ll be appointed for up to three years, which could be extended for a further three years. You'll attend meetings (in-person or online) and have a background or interest in the divisional occupation or interest. Divisional executive positions are voluntary but reasonable expenses will be reimbursed in line with our volunteers policy.