Status: Permanent - will consider between 22.5-26 hours per week (to include Wednesdays)
Salary: £15,393 to £27,058 per annum depending on experience & hours (WTE £25,655 - £39,027)
Closing Date: 24/07/2022
Interview Date: 01/08/2022
For over 30 years St Elizabeth Hospice has driven forward innovation and development of services, both in the Ipswich and East Suffolk locality and now further up the coast to the Great Yarmouth and Waveney area. NHS Norfolk and Waveney CCG have awarded the specialist palliative and end of life care contract to East Coast Community Healthcare. The contract includes a specialist palliative care service, which will be delivered in partnership with St Elizabeth Hospice.
This is an exciting time for St Elizabeth Hospice. It is a time of expansion, development and investment in the Hospice Team. We have an opportunity for a Counsellor to join our counselling service and work in a multidisciplinary team. You will be supporting those living with a progressive or life-limiting illness and work within our LivingGrief bereavement service. You must be a Registered accredited Counsellor or working towards accreditation. Our ideal candidate will have proven abilities to work with clients and families who have changing needs, on an individual basis, with couples and in groups, as well as an understanding and ability to support individuals and families throughout their illness. There is capacity in the team to support a newly qualified counsellor working towards accreditation so newly qualified therapists are welcome to apply.
At this exciting time for St Elizabeth Hospice, we are looking for a dynamic, compassionate and highly motivated individual who can provide emotional support and counselling service for patients and their families requiring specialist palliative care.
In return we offer:
- mirror Agenda for Change with regard to salary, enhancements, annual leave and sick pay (however not reckonable service)
- personal pension plan (NHS Pensions are transferrable)
- excellent training opportunities
- employee assistance programme
- free parking
Our most recent Care Quality Commission report rated the hospice as “Outstanding”
Closing Date: 24 July 2022
Interview Date: 1 August 2022
If you would like an opportunity to find out some more about working at the hospice and how it can fit your own career aspirations, we recommend an informal visit/discussion prior to you completing your application. Please contact Katherine Grogan, Emotional Wellbeing Team Leader katherine.grogan@stelizabethhospice.org.uk or Lesley Houghton, counsellor lesley.houghton@stelizabethhospice.org.uk
For more information please use the link to view the job description and person specification.
Only applicants selected for interview will be contacted, and invitation to interview will be sent by email.