Salary
Rennie Grove Peace Band 5: £29,970 - £36,483 per annum (pro rata)
Location
Peace Hospice Care, Watford / Grove House, St Albans
This is a permanent, full time vacancy that will close in 7 days at 12:00 BST.
The Vacancy
* 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.
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
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
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:
Financial benefits
Flexible working
Wellbeing
Career development