Volunteering and Recruitment

Make a meaningful difference while developing your counselling practice. Join our new Community Bereavement Service and support people when they need it most.

We are looking for committed and compassionate Student Counsellors to join our exciting new Community Bereavement Service as part of our expanding paid-for services.

This is a unique opportunity to gain valuable bereavement counselling experience within an established and highly experienced team, supporting adults aged 18+ who are navigating grief and loss in many different forms.

What You'll Be Doing

Working within our structured six-session counselling model, you will provide bereavement support through:

• Face-to-face counselling
• Online sessions
• Telephone support

You will have the opportunity to work with a diverse range of clients, each with their own unique grief journey, helping them find understanding, coping strategies, and hope.

What We Offer

• Comprehensive induction and training
• Ongoing clinical supervision
• Support from an experienced bereavement and counselling team
• Opportunities to develop specialist skills in grief and loss
• Valuable client-facing experience within a respected service.
  
  

Person Specification: You will need to be:

• an accredited counselling qualification (or to be in the 2^nd year of a diploma or degree in counselling)
• experience of offering counselling / listening support
• flexibility to respond to the needs of the service
• awareness of the importance of client confidentiality
• commitment to working in line with the hospice values of compassion, respect, professionalism, integrity and innovation
  
  

Recruitment Process:

Please fill out a volunteer application form and we will be in touch with the next steps.  

Interviews will be held on:

• Monday 12 October
• Tuesday 13 October
• Wednesday 14 October

Mandatory Training Day

Successful applicants must attend a full-day Bereavement Care Training event:

Saturday 7 November
10.00am – 3.30pm

This training will provide essential knowledge and skills to prepare you for your role within the service.

Suggested Time Commitment: 2-4 clients per week (early evening and weekends preferred)

Be Part of Something New

This is an exciting opportunity to help shape a new community service while developing your counselling skills in a supportive and professional environment. If you are keen to make a meaningful difference to people living with grief, we would love to hear from you.

Apply today and help us bring compassionate bereavement support to our community.

Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Check:

Enhanced check required (With Adult Barring / Child barring)

This post involves working in Regulated Activity under the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 and is subject to an enhanced DBS with Barred list check (i.e. adult/child or both).

It is a criminal offence to apply for or accept a position working with adults at risk and/or children if you have been barred from engaging in regulated activity with the relevant group (i.e. adults, children or both).