This ambitious new role will be leading a new team bringing together the Adult and Child Bereavement Services to work collaboratively and creatively with leaders across all the hospice services.

About the Role

The Head of Adult and Child Bereavement Services will provide strong management and leadership to the Adult and Child Bereavement teams. Leading both the Adult and Child Bereavement Co-ordinators you will work with the multi-professional teams, Adult and Child services including team volunteers to ensure that all families receive appropriate and timely bereavement support and information.  

You will contribute to the development of a new three-year Bereavement strategy and working with the Director of Quality and Innovation you will evaluate current bereavement provision, looking for new opportunities to ensure the continuous development, and sustainability of our bereavement services.

You will ensure systems and procedures are developed with agreed outcomes, using both personal knowledge and evidence driven practices to ensure consistency and quality.

Prepare regular reports for the Quality and Impact governance committee, The Executive Team, Commissioners, and other stakeholders drawing on data from relevant systems and information from Team Co-ordinators.

Maintain a safe working environment through the monitoring of risks, the timely reporting of incidents and the promotion of a culture of reflection and learning.

What you will need to succeed  

A dynamic and emotionally resilient leader with the motivate, develop and encourage others to be the best they can be.

The ability to lead projects and be a role model to introducing change effectively, being proactive and able to use own initiative, managing time and resources effectively.

You will have a comprehensive knowledge of child and adult bereavement, alongside significant practice-based experience of supporting children and adults in bereavement.

Experience and knowledge of local and national guidelines for safeguarding adults and children and understanding of nationwide initiatives on bereavement in order to meet requirements for delivering best practice standards to service users.

Experience of working with volunteers, together with an understanding of their expectations, needs and limitations.

Some of our benefits: 

• You will gain a stimulating and rewarding career with an opportunity to influence and make a real difference within the organisation and our local community
• Access to excellent training and development opportunities
• Season ticket loans/cycle to work scheme
• A number of health and wellbeing initiatives
• A competitive contributory pension scheme with life assurance scheme with generous beneficiary plan
• An onsite staff canteen
• Access to plenty of free local street parking

If you are interested in this role and feel that you have the skills and experience  we are looking for, in the first instance, please contact; Jan Noble, Director of Quality and innovation    j.noble@stchristophers.org.uk  020 8768 4681

To find out more about St Christopher’s Hospice please have a look at our website www.stchristophers.org.uk 

To apply for this role please review the attached Job description and Person specification and click the ‘Apply Online’ button below. On your application form please state which hours you would prefer 

In the event we receive a high amount of applications, we reserve the right to close the job earlier than the initial closing date.