Job Summary
- To provide practical and emotional support to Children and siblings.
- To work in liaison with other family/ sibling support services to ensure multi-disciplinary and multi-agency working, to enable a seamless system for children and families.
- To provide practical and emotional support to the siblings and immediate family following a child’s death.
- To work closely with team members using your own initiative, good organisational leadership and time management skills.
Main duties of the job
To guide and assist the nurses & short break facilitators in assessing the emotional needs of the child and immediate family. Developing an individualised plan of care. Enabling the short break facilitators to provide distraction techniques utilising therapeutic, sensory and developmental play activities.To attend and contribute to team meetings, case load updates and meetings relevant to the child. To participate in the development of projects which lead to service improvements. To liaise and create links with the mortuary, funeral directors, and other agencies as part of end of life care for child and immediate family.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Undergraduate Degree relevant to childhood studies
- Counselling Skills Training.
Desirable
- Bereavement training
- Child development and social care qualification
- Evidence of working with children and families
- Advanced communication skills
Knowledge
Essential
- Working knowledge of safeguarding procedures
- Knowledge of bereavement and grief
- Understanding of spiritual, cultural and religious need
- Understanding of Equality and Diversity
- IT skills including Microsoft Word
Desirable
- Awareness of voluntary agencies
- Awareness of literature and government legislation to children and young people
- Knowledge of practical support following a child death, for example funeral planning
- Knowledge of childhood illness and disability
Experience
Essential
- Experience working in a childcare setting
- Evidence in working with child and family facing difficult circumstances
- Experience of working with individuals facing or experiencing bereavement
- Experience working with pre-post bereaved children
- Experience of facilitating play/therapeutic group work with child and siblings
- Experience of working within a team under appropriate supervision as part of a multi-disciplinary team
- Experience of producing reports as required
- Experience of working with children with palliative care needs and or children with complex healthcare needs
Desirable
- Experience working with children and young people in groups or individually
- Experience working in a healthcare, hospice, palliative care environment and community
- Leadership experience
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Closing Date: 04 September 2025
