Child Bereavement Specialist (within the Meerkats Team)
Child Bereavement Specialist (within the Meerkats Team)
- Salary:£39,959 - £48,117 (depending on experience)
- Hours:Full Time
- Extras:37.5 hours per week (some flexible working required)
About the role
The role
The Child Bereavement Specialist will assess the psychosocial and emotional needs of children and families affected by life limiting illness and bereavement. They will provide specialist pre and post bereavement support through one-to-one sessions with children, guidance to parents and family members as well as delivering group support for children.
The role involves close liaison with hospice clinical teams, schools and other external professionals to ensure children receive timely and appropriate support. Contribution to safeguarding processes, delivering training and guidance to education settings where appropriate and supporting the continued development of the service, will be integral to this role.
The post holder will maintain accurate clinical records and contribute to service evaluation through routine data collection and reflective practice. Participation in regular clinical supervision and ongoing professional development is a core requirement of the role.
The successful candidate will be required to travel to Rowans Hospice in Waterlooville on an ongoing basis to shadow and work alongside the established Rowans Meerkat Team. This regular engagement will support continued learning, reflective practice and supervision. Attendance is expected to be guided by service need and developmental priorities and is likely to be in the region of 1-2 days per week, subject to review.
Our Partnership Approach
St Michael’s Hospice and Rowans Hospice share a Chief Executive and work in close partnership across our organisations. This collaborative approach enables us to strengthen specialist services through shared learning, governance and clinical development.
Rowans Hospice established its Meerkat Service in 2008. The service is delivered by an experienced team of three clinicians and has developed a strong reputation for providing high quality pre and post bereavement support to children and young people within an adult hospice setting.
We are now bringing the Meerkat model to St Michael’s Hospice to ensure that children and young people across North Hampshire can access timely, specialist support when facing the serious illness or death of a significant adult. This post represents an important step in embedding this established model within our local community.
About St. Michael’s Hospice
St. Michael’s Hospice is a registered charity providing specialist palliative and end of life care services since 1992, for the people of North Hampshire. We are dedicated to providing care to people throughout North Hampshire who are affected by life limiting illness to attain the highest possible quality of life by providing a choice of specialist care and support.
As a charity, we depend on the kindness and support of our local community to continue offering our services free of charge. This care is made possible by supporters donating, taking part in fundraising events and activities, playing our lottery, shopping in our retail outlets, leaving gifts in their Wills or giving freely of their time to volunteer.
Our benefits
We offer a competitive salary with attractive benefits, including, free parking, life assurance, 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays, and an extensive health and wellbeing plan and company pension.
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Closing date: Sunday 12th April 2026
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Contact
For further information please contact Sophie de Bere on 02392 248025 or the HR team on 01256 844744 or at hr@stmichaelshospice.org.uk.
We do appreciate every application that we receive for our job vacancies, however, due to our limited resources, we regret that we are not always able to advise every candidate if they have not been shortlisted. Therefore, if you have not heard from us within three weeks of the advert’s closing date then it is likely that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion.