Senior Counselling Practitioner

Birmingham Hospice; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 22,000 - 26,000; Part time

Job summary

Birmingham Hospice is looking for a part-time Senior Counselling Practitioner to join its Wellbeing Team. The team provides specialist therapeutic support in bereavement, serving adults, children and spiritual care, in a friendly, professional, person-centred way.

The role involves delivering counselling services to patients, families and bereaved clients, supporting the Service Lead with operational data and triage, and maintaining secure clinical records in line with policy.

Qualifications

• Qualification in Counselling with advanced training in theory and practice.
• Current registration with an approved professional counselling body (e.g. BACP).
• Experience with loss, grief and bereavement; ability to supervise others.

Responsibilities

• Provide a counselling service for patients, families, pre/post bereavement and bereaved clients.
• Support service lead with operational efficiency, data management and triage.
• Assess needs and formulate an appropriate care plan; maintain clinical records.

Skills

Counselling

Bereavement care

Team supervision

Education

Counselling qualification

UK professional registration

Job description

Job summary

Birmingham Hospice is looking for a part-time Senior Counselling Practitioner to join its wellbeing team.

The Wellbeing Team is a specialist therapeutic team working in the bereavement setting, helping people to help themselves. The Wellbeing Team consists of Adult and Children and a Spiritual service. We are a very friendly team who strive on professionalism and providing person centred care.

The Wellbeing Team also provide a high standard of research based clinical supervision to our staff, the service has grown in the past few years, this is an exciting opportunity to join because we are growing and developing as a team and service.

Main duties of the job

• Provide a counselling service for patients and their families known to the Hospice both pre and post bereavement and also for bereaved clients outside of the hospice
• Support the Service Lead with operational service efficiency, data management information, colleague support and appropriate triaging and allocation.
• Identify the nature, severity and complexity of patients and families requirements through assessment to formulate and implement a plan for their care
• Maintain clinical records in line with the Hospices policies and procedures

About us

At Birmingham Hospice, we support people living with life limiting illness to live as well as they can - and we walk alongside their families during some of life's most challenging moments.

Salary

£22,201 to £26,374 a year (pro rata for part-time)

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time, Flexible working

Closing date

02 November 2026

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Qualification in Counselling with advanced training in theory and practice of counselling
• Current registration with an approved, professional counselling body (e.g BACP)
• At least two models of psychological therapy and practitioner level knowledge

Experience

• Experience and understanding of the needs associated with loss, grief and bereavement
• Experience in managing team of counsellors
• Significant experience of supervising individuals or groups
• Knowledge of complex issues involved in therapeutic work within the field of palliative care
• Good planning and organisational skills
• Resilience, reliability and excellent communication skills
• Creativity for continuous improvement

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

Employer contact details

Contact: Wellbeing Team Leader, Surjit Heer, [e-mail]