Detailed job description
and main responsibilities
Meadow House Hospice (MHH) provides a specialist palliative care service for the residents of Ealing and Hounslow. This includes a 15 bedded in-patient unit and a large community team. Patients present with complex and specialist needs, and the focus of their care will have changed from curative to palliative. The Hospice provides support to families and carers, including bereavement support.
The Bereavement Service offers support and counselling to adult relatives of patients who were under the care of MHH. It provides bereavement related consultation, training and support to professional colleagues. It works closely with the Specialist Palliative Care Psychology Service, is part of the LNWH Cancer and Palliative Care Psychological Services Team, and the wider LNWH Psychological Services Network (PSN).
Person specification
Education/ qualifications
Essential criteria
1. 1.Qualification in Counselling or Psychotherapy at Advanced Diploma level or equivalent
2. 2.Accreditation with appropriate professional body (e.g., BACP or UKCP, or working towards)
3. 3.Evidence of continuing Profession Development (CPD)
Desirable criteria
4. Training / Qualification in supervision
5. Training / qualification in family or systemic therapy
6. Experience in Trauma Informed Approaches
Knowledge and experience
Essential criteria
7. Knowledge of models and theories of grief, bereavement needs and needs assessment
8. Understanding of the impact of terminal illness and bereavement upon individuals and families
9. Understanding of the influence of race/culture (and membership of other minoritized groups) upon responses to bereavement and grieving and access to support
10. Understanding of the role of Bereavement Care within specialist hospice care
11. Experience in bereavement care and/or palliative care
12. Experience of working in an NHS or health care environment
Desirable criteria
13. Experience of working in hospice settings
14. Experience of working with couples and families
15. Experience of facilitating groups