We have an opportunity for a Counsellor(s) to join our well established service and work in a multi-disciplinary team. You will be supporting those living with a progressive or life-limiting illness and working within our LivingGrief bereavement service.
St Elizabeth Hospice is an independent charity and hospice, which improves life for people in the East Suffolk, Great Yarmouth and Waveney areas living with a progressive or life-limiting illness. Our most recent Care Quality Commission report rated the hospice as “Outstanding”.
Established in 1989, the hospice has built a reputation for delivering high-level care to patients and the community it serves. Through medicine and therapy, they ease pain; give life purpose and make life liveable. Last year the charity supported over 4,000 patients and their families.
The hospice’s work is centred on the individual’s needs and they provide specialist support wherever it is needed; whether that is in the home, another setting in the community, in hospital or in the hospice itself. Support is provided to patients and their families via the In-Patient Unit, the Community Care Unit including outpatient’s clinics, home visits from the Community Nursing, Medical and Therapy Teams, the OneCall 24/7 telephone helpline and bereavement support.
You must be a Registered UKCP or BACP accredited Counsellor or working towards accreditation. Our ideal candidate(s) 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 and in bereavement.
You will be based in the St Elizabeth Hospice building in Ipswich. As well as being part of the multi-disciplinary hospice team, you will also be part of the Emotional Wellbeing and Spiritual Care Team and LivingGrief service across St Elizabeth Hospice. You will, therefore, have opportunities to develop working relationships and contribute to service development within a well-established, supportive and dynamic team of counsellors, social workers, spiritual care workers and family support workers.
St Elizabeth Hospice is committed to safeguarding and protecting the adults and young people that we work with and has a zero-tolerance approach to abuse, neglect and discrimination of any person. As such, all posts are subject to a rigorous safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks. We have a range of robust safeguarding policies in place which promote safeguarding across the hospice and staff are expected to undertake regular, mandatory safeguarding training to equip them with the knowledge and skills to identify and respond to potential risks.
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 Hanna McDowell, Associate Director of Care Operations on hanna.McDowell@stelizabethhospice.org.uk
