Bereavement Wellbeing Practitioner Hours: 37.5/30 hours per week Location: St Albans / Watford Salary: Rennie Grove Peace Band 5 - £29,970 - £36,483 per annum (pro rata) Closing date: 10 September 2025 at 12 noon Interview date: 22 September 2025 The role of Bereavement Wellbeing Practitioner is in place to: To be a part of the Bereavement and Talking Therapies team who offer emotional support to patients, carers, children and young people and families who have a life-limiting illness or are bereaved. Triage referrals and undertake assessments to appropriate departments with Bereavement and Talking therapy service. Trained professional in CBT/DBT/counselling. Plan and facilitate sessions for bereaved and pre-bereaved patients. Deliver staff and patient/family/carers psycho-educational workshops. To work as part of a multi-disciplinary team and contribute to providing a high-quality service. You will therefore need to demonstrate your abilities in the following areas: Understand the need to manage time and resources to maximum effect, prioritizing workload, managing own time and working to deadlines. Organising own day to day tasks. Ability to plan and organise session as appropriate to the RGP service. Ability to organise resources. Take a flexible approach to working, providing cover for colleagues as required across the Rennie Grove and Peace’s geographical area. Ability to work autonomously to plan, deliver, develop and evaluate the bereavement service in line with the RGP Strategy. Acting as a Rennie Grove Peace ambassador within the community. ARE YOU READY TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE? Click ‘Apply Now’…. All candidates must have the right to work in the UK. Please note, we do not sponsor for this role and due to the minimal hours required for this role, we cannot progress applications for candidates sponsored by another employer. If successful, you'll join on the first working Monday of the month so we can best support you with our structured induction programme. For an informal chat about this role contact Sarah Milligan, Psychological Services Lead on sarah.milligan@renniegrovepeace.org Applications will be reviewed and invited to interview as received. We reserve the right to close the advert at any time, therefore we encourage applicants to apply as soon as possible. To ensure fairness and consistency to select the best candidate to this role, all our applications are anonymised up until an interview has been confirmed. The Company The Company has experienced unprecedented growth over the past few years. We have a vast number of employees, and provide support to clients from all over the country. The Company At Rennie Grove Peace Hospice Care, we’re all about making every moment matter for our patients and families, and you can play your part in that. We will support people of all ages who are affected by a progressive life- limiting illness (and those who care for them), to live as well as possible by providing choice and ease access to a wide range of palliative care and bereavement services across Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire. We provide care and support for adults and children diagnosed with cancer and other life-limiting illness, and their families, visiting day and night. It’s important work and, to make it all happen, we need talented and passionate people. Employee benefits overview At Rennie Grove Peace, we are committed to creating a workplace where our staff can develop their careers and make a real difference. A summary of benefits is below: We offer competitive salaries All roles are benchmarked against the external market and against the NHS pay structure for Clinical employees. Plan your future with our Pension scheme options Standard Life scheme with matched contributions; up to 7% (with a min of 4% employee contribution) or options for continuation in the NHS pension scheme for eligible staff. Protected with Life Assurance 2x salary paid in the event of death for eligible employees up to age 75. Family friendly policies Including enhanced maternity, adoption and paternity pay. Pro-rata for part time roles. We pay professional registration fees for eligible employees in clinical roles We reimburse your travel expenses Eligible employees can claim travel expenses for mileage that qualifies for payment (subject to HMRC rules). Additional employee discounts available Including retail, entertainment and services discounts, including the Blue Light Card (subject to purchase of membership). Achieving a work-life balance is important. We want you to enjoy your work and take valuable time out to relax and be with your loved ones. We enable this through the following: Flexible working Including hybrid, part time, job share (depending on role requirements). Generous holiday entitlement 27 days per annum, plus bank holidays. Increasing to 30 days at 5 years and 33 days at 10 years’ service. (Pro-rata for part-time roles) Birthday leave Pro-rata for part-time roles Religious holidays We are mindful of individual requests. Your health and wellbeing is important, and we offer you options to support you in maintaining your health. Health Cash Plan Rennie Grove Peace funded membership for you and up to four children. Membership can be extended to include your partner, at the employee’s expense. Including financial support for health screening, prescriptions, dental/optical, diagnostic tests/consultations, physiotherapy, chiropody, complementary/alternative therapies, as well as virtual GP services and discounted health club membership (subject to eligibility). Employee Assistance Programme – free 24/7 confidential service, offering unlimited access to advice, information, coaching and counselling, where appropriate. Additional rules apply, these can be discussed with you. We are committed in supporting your personal growth and development and we provide a range of opportunities, including: Comprehensive induction programme to help you settle in quickly. Regular development conversations with your Line Manager. Training and development opportunities including externally funded courses and coaching, where appropriate. Specialist palliative training for clinicians and non-clinicians. Clinical supervision training and mentoring for clinicians. Protected and dedicated time given to learning and developing. Employee Voice – fantastic opportunities to join collaborative focus groups. Opportunity to develop through our exciting programme of fundraising events and social occasions. Documents