Bereavement Community Counsellor
Location: based at Waterside House in Irthlingborough and The William and Patricia Venton Centre in Northampton
Rate of pay: £29,918.20 per annum full time equivalent (post April 2025, full time - 37 hours)
Hours: Up to 30 hours per week available, this can be shared between more than one candidate
About the role
Age UK Northamptonshire is setting up a new bereavement service, the Bereavement Community. We aim to provide a counselling service to enable clients to regain and maintain control over their lives. This role would be supporting embedding the new processes and team, helping set up the bereavement community, facilitating drop-in bereavement groups, delivering 1:1 counselling sessions and other bereavement focused work. You will support people to identify their own achievable and realistic goals and agree objectives to aid their recovery.
Full counselling notes must be kept by the counsellor in line with BACP and GDPR regulations.
About you
We need someone with excellent listening and communication skills and who is compassionate. You will need to have patience and a calm manner, and the ability to cope with emotional situations. We are looking for someone with an understanding of mental health issues and issues affecting older people. It is important that you can be non-judgemental and self-aware and can examine your own thoughts and values.
How to apply for our job vacancies
Download the job application form on this page. Complete either the Word or PDF version of the application form and either email to recruitment@ageuknorthants.org.uk or post it to:
Age UK Northamptonshire
William and Patricia Venton Centre
York Road
Northamptonshire
NN1 5QJ
Please do not send CVs as they will be discounted. For more information about this role and working for Age UK Northamptonshire, call us on 01604 611200 or email recruitment@ageuknorthants.org.uk
Closing date for applications: Friday 28th February, 9am
Interviews: week commencing Monday 3rd March
Application form as a PDF to download and print out (369 KB)
Application form to download and open with Microsoft Word (168 KB)