Co-ordinator for Seahorse Project

**Vacancy Type**
- Permanent/Part Time**Contracted Hours**
- 22.5 hours per week**Salary**
- £17,508.00 (FTE £29,180) per annum**Interview Date**
- TBC**DBS**
- Enhanced with Adult & Child Barring**Location**
- St Wilfrid’s Hospice, Eastbourne**Application Deadline**
- Monday, March 6, 2023***

**Advert Content**

**About us**:
St Wilfrid’s Hospice provides end of life support to the population of Eastbourne and the surrounding parts of East Sussex, from our stunning hospice building and through our highly skilled community teams. We are rated an ‘outstanding’ provider by the Care Quality Commission and have a clear vision of reaching increasing numbers of local patients and their families, in close collaboration with our community.

We provide a supportive working environment, which is demonstrated through our values: compassionate, professional, progressive, and respectful and these are embedded in our culture. We have a dynamic learning environment that actively promotes and facilitates opportunities for career progression through our competency framework.

**The Role**:
Our people are vital to the future of St Wilfrid’s Hospice and it is essential that we recruit and retain the very best individuals and offer a supportive, engaging, and rewarding working environment.

An opportunity has arisen for a Co-ordinator to join The Seahorse Project (Community Children and Young Persons Bereavement Service) at St Wilfrid’s Hospice.

We are looking for a person with excellent administration skills to assess the incoming referrals and who enjoys working with systems to capture information clearly and in a timely fashion.

You will be a qualified counsellor who shares our values of being compassionate, professional, progressive, and respectful and who has experience working with children and young people with complex needs.

You will have sound knowledge of childhood bereavement principles and relevant legislation regarding children. You will be working towards enabling children to find their voice and express their grief in a way which is child centred.

**Benefits included**:

- We offer a generous holiday entitlement of 27 days per year plus bank holidays
- Contributory pension scheme with the option to continue any existing NHS pension scheme membership
- Discounted cinema tickets
- Employee assistance programmes
- Additional training opportunities
- Supportive working environment

If you would like to discuss the role in further detail please contact Ella Williams on 01323 434257.