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About the Role
The Shakespeare Hospice is seeking a dedicated and compassionate Counsellor Volunteer to join our Adult Counselling and Bereavement Support Service. As a Counsellor Volunteer, you will play a vital role in providing psychological support to adult patients, carers, and their families who have been deemed eligible to access our service.
Key Responsibilities
- Offer a range of contracted short and medium-term counselling relationships and interventions informed by mainstream counselling/psychotherapy theory and evidence-based counselling techniques.
- Contribute to and participate in volunteer counselling team activities.
- Hold and manage client caseload, of a minimum of 4 clients, as negotiated with the Service Co-ordinator.
- Contract and regularly review with clients the frequency and evolving goals for the counselling.
- Work, wherever possible, towards a planned and negotiated ending with clients.
- Participate in reviews with clients at 5 and 8 weeks, working towards an ending at 10 weeks with post-bereaved clients.
- Consult with the counselling Coordinator should the volunteer counsellor feel that more sessions are required.
- Consult with your Service Co-ordinator if a longer-term involvement with a client is being considered.
- Actively risk assess any concerns about health and safety, confidentiality, safeguarding, mental capacity, and share those concerns with the line management and with external professionals with statutory authority where appropriate.
- Maintain appropriate professional records in line with the Hospice policy and procedure and make statistical returns as required.
- Ensure the confidentiality and safety of all client notes, which will be kept at the hospice.
- Work within the BACP Ethical Framework for Good Practice in Counselling and Psychotherapy.
- Participate in regular supervision in accordance with BACP guidelines.
- Attend regular team meetings and events as appropriate.
- Participate in regular reviews of your role with the Service Co-ordinator, which will focus on all aspects of the counsellor role, including clinical competencies and developmental goals.
- Participate in audit, evidence-based practice, and practice-based evidence initiatives as appropriate.
- Maintain membership of BACP or other appropriate professional body.
- Attend all mandatory training sessions as identified by the organization (New Volunteers Induction Course, Fire, Manual Handling, Adult Safeguarding, etc.).
- Comply with the Hospice no smoking policy and familiarize yourself with relevant organizational and service policies and guidelines.
- Inform the Service Co-ordinator of issues in your personal and professional life which may impact on your counselling role.
- Inform, in a timely manner, the Service Co-ordinator of a decision to end the volunteer placement to allow for the development of a planned exit strategy with clients and colleagues so that issues of continuity of care can be considered.
Person Specification
- Either qualified as a counsellor or working towards qualification, having attained a minimum of 50 hours experience.
- Able to commit to a minimum of a year volunteering with the hospice.
