Job Description

Child Bereavement UK helps families to rebuild their lives when a child grieves or when a child dies.

We support children and young people (up to the age of 25) when someone important to them has died or is not expected to live, and parents and the wider family when a baby or child of any age dies or is dying.

We provide training to professionals in health and social care, education, and the voluntary and corporate sectors, equipping them to provide the best possible care to bereaved families.

Role: Bereavement Support Service Co-ordinator – London

Hours: Full-Time, 35 hours per week

Contract: 3-year fixed term contract

Rate: £31,500 (plus £2000 London Weighting) per annum

Reporting to: Bereavement Support Service Lead - South

Base: Flexible hybrid working between home and one of Child Bereavement UK’s London Centres

Child Bereavement UK is delighted to be recruiting into a new role based in London and will be part of our South Bereavement Service Team. This is a split post working primarily as a Bereavement Support Practitioner with a focus on families bereaved by sudden and traumatic death with the additional responsibility of assisting the Bereavement Support Service Lead to provide and evaluate the service including supervisory responsibility for members of the team.

This will include supporting the Bereavement Support Service Lead to manage additional funded projects which will require the postholder to develop and facilitate networks with families, schools impacted by a traumatic death, and develop cross referral pathways and networks with third sector organisations supporting people impacted by a traumatic death; drug and alcohol use, suicide, violent crime and mental ill health.

The charity has a Bereavement Service in West and East London, but the initial focus of this role will be in Kensington and Chelsea.

Child Bereavement UK offers a generous package of benefits including an employee assistance programme, 5% pension contribution and life assurance scheme.

Applicants should have a recognised, health, social care, or counselling qualification, experience in working with children, young people and families, excellent communication skills and be passionate about supporting bereaved families and those whose roles bring them into contact with these families.

Closing date: Thursday 27 March 2025

Interviews: 2 April 2025 (In person) Child Bereavement UK, c/o The Beethoven Centre,174 Third Avenue, Queens Park, London, W10 4JL

Please note: Applications will be reviewed, and interviews offered, on an on-going basis.

We reserve the right to close the role prior to the closing date, should a suitable applicant be found, so please submit your application as soon as possible.

Interested?

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The successful candidate will be required to complete a DBS check.

The Charity is committed to creating a safe and welcoming atmosphere for everyone, and one that challenges all forms of oppression or discrimination including those based on age, gender or gender reassignment, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity leave, disability, race (which includes nationality, citizenship, ethnic or national origins), religion/faith or belief, sexual orientation (collectively known in law as the ‘protected characteristics’), as well as any oppression or discrimination based on other physical characteristics or impairments, occupation, income, wealth, or unrelated criminal convictions.

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