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.
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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.
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