Advertised from 23 June 2025

Role

Organisational background:

We are a Scottish charity providing baby loss counselling and peer support to families, with over 40 years’ experience of offering compassionate bereavement care in the community. 

Many of our staff are bereaved parents themselves, so through shared, lived experience, we provide compassion and support to each other and connect through our care for our families and each other. Our families are the heart of everything that we do. All our support is free, personal to each family and for as long as is needed. Our support includes counselling, one to one peer support, our Hospital to Home service, group support and events.

We are in a period of growth, having expanded the team from 4 to 26 over the last 8 years and, most recently, extending our geographical reach from Edinburgh and the Lothians to Fife, Forth Valley and the Highlands.

Job Summary

• To deliver specialist baby and child bereavement counselling over 26 weeks to families in Forth Valley.
• To hold and manage a caseload with complex bereavement needs
• To work closely with other Counsellors, Bereavement support lead and the Head of Support Services in co-ordinating the service ensuring timely and sensitive communication.
• To monitor and develop the counselling service waiting list. 
• To offer an initial assessment as part of a new triage system to clients referred to counselling.
• To lead on a new counselling structure

Application notes

Application details: Please send your CV and a covering letter direct to info@heldinourhearts.org.uk by noon on the 8th of August 2025.

Interview date information: Interviews will be held on 18th and 19th August.

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