Volunteer Counsellor
- Employer
- Martlets Hospice Volunteers
- Location
- Brighton, East Sussex
- Salary
- Voluntary
- Closing date
- 5 Dec 2021
Job Details
Volunteer Counsellor
Our counsellors offer face to face, pre-bereavement and bereavement counselling to patients, family and significant friends at our hospice in Hove or in a client’s home. For qualified counsellors, you will need a minimum of a diploma (Level 5/6) and to be a member of a recognised professional body; for trainee counsellors, you will need to be in your second year of your diploma training (Level 5).
Where: Martlets Hospice, Wayfield Avenue, Hove, BN3 7LW and in the community throughout Brighton, Hove and the surrounding area. We are currently offering our services remotely by telephone and Zoom and are planning to re-introduce face-to-face support in 2022.
When: One, three-hour session a week, (Monday- Friday between 9am-8pm and daytime Saturday). Sessions arranged at a mutually convenient time for client and counsellor.
Usual minimum commitment:
- To complete the eight-week Martlets Counselling and Bereavement Service Training (24 hours in total). This will be delivered on Wednesday evenings 17.45 – 21.00pm from 26/1/22 – 23/3/22 (excluding half-term on 16/2/22)
On completion of the training, volunteers should be able to commit to:
- A three-hour session a week (two 50-minute client sessions plus an hour of admin).
- Fortnightly supervision session of two hours
What you’ll be doing:
- Providing face-to-face pre-bereavement and bereavement counselling to patients and their family and friends
- Participating in fortnightly group supervision
- Maintaining appropriate confidential electronic records (training provided)
- Maintaining own client process notes in line with Hospice policy and own professional approach and standards
- Working according to the Hospice policies, to the BACP Code of Practice and Ethics and to maintain membership of your professional body
- Communicating closely with the Counselling and Bereavement Service Manager, the Counsellors and the Patient and Family Support Administrator
- Attending a minimum of one training session a year
Anything else I should know? We are able to pay travel expenses such as local bus fares and train tickets to help you access this volunteering role.
Sounds good, what do I do next? Take a look at our role description and fill in our short registration form.
Company
Brighton has a long history of high-quality care for the dying, provided by charitable/philanthropic organisations. In 1935 the Tarner Home was established which, through a generous endowment, provided care to the seriously ill who could not afford private nursing home fees. On a similar basis, Coppercliff (which later became Coppercliff Hospice) came into existence in 1967, the same year that St Christopher’s Hospice opened under the leadership of Dame Cicely Saunders.
At the time, these two organisations were unique in the fact that as charities, they could provide their services at a cost affordable to everyone. Over the years, medical conditions became more complex and it was becoming impossible to meet patient’s needs from the restricted facilities of converted houses.
The purpose-built Martlets opened in 1997. The staff and services were formed from the merger of 3 separate charities: Coppercliff Hospice, Tarner and MacMillan Day Hospice; hence the 3 birds in the logo. A Martlet is a mythical heraldic bird which is thought to represent swallows. They are seen in the Sussex County crest and the Sussex County Cricket Club emblem. They are shown in flight with open wings and without feet, possibly because of the old belief that the swallow could never land. This reflects the Martlets ethos that we are perpetually in flight, never resting, always responding.
In 1997, the Martlets services consisted of 18 beds, with the Day Hospice opening 6 months later. Five years later the highly-valuable Hospice at Home service was established and 10 years after opening we launched Martlets Care, a commercial domiciliary care company providing quality care in the home and also providing a sustainable income stream for the hospice.
Since opening, the Martlets has benefitted from three major grants (exceeding £1.2 million pounds) from NHS England. These funds have enabled us to ensure that we can adapt to meet the changing needs of our patients and their families through the refurbishment and extension of our facilities.
Across the hospice services, over 25,000 local people have been cared for and/or supported since 1997.
- Telephone
- 01273 273400
- Location
-
170 South Coast Road
Peacehaven
BN10 8JH
GB
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