Parent Counselling Service Lead | Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

Applications are invited for a part-time 0.70 WTE (3.5 days per week) post as the Lead Counsellor for Parent Counselling Service based at the Evelina London Children’s Hospital. Your experience and knowledge of psychotherapeutic counselling with parents of chronically ill / palliative children and bereavement will inform your multidisciplinary team working. Offering dynamic hybrid models of support, you will integrate a range of bereavement models alongside general psychotherapeutic counselling to meet the needs of our diverse communities across our region.

The postholder will lead assessments, and general service development in collaboration with psychology services and paediatric palliative care specialism.

Applicants should be BACP Snr. Accred. [eligible] / UKCP Reg. MA / MSc (Level 7) qualified

We are looking for a dynamic individual who will work with the team to lead the service through:
• Clinical leadership of assessments, referral pathways and holding a clinical caseload.
• Operational and clinical supervision to ensure timely referrals, access and safeguarding.
• Contribute towards the delivery of scheduled Remembrance Services [2 per year].
• Developing teaching sessions regarding Bereavement and Working with Parents.
• Ensure ethical standards are maintained by contributing to service development with GSTT Psychological Services framework.

· Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK’s best known hospitals – Guy’s, St Thomas’, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield and employs around 22,700 staff with over 1 million patient contacts a year.

· The Parent Counselling Service comprises of 3 qualified and exercised counsellors / psychotherapists (1.7WTE), admin support located in our paediatric palliative care team. We are a team of practitioners that offer integrative approaches to supporting parents of life limited / threatened and palliative children, alongside bereavement through psychotherapeutic and psychosocial interventions.

· Our innovative and collaborative approach to decision-making and service delivery promotes spaces where we each contribute to the development of services based on service user feedback, reflective practice and models of best practice.

· We work closely with colleagues across other disciplines to promote the welfare of parents.
• Professional qualifications - Applicants should be BACP Snr. Accred. [eligible] / UKCP Reg. MA / MSc (Level 7) qualified
• Clinical Experience – background in mental / physical health care setting with children and / or adults, hospice and / or hospital environments supported by substantial experience in delivering psychotherapeutic interventions.
• Clinical Skills - Ability to work as an effective member of a multidisciplinary team and to share and encourage good practice through an Integrative approach to psychotherapeutic and psychosocial interventions.

· For further details please see formal job description

This advert closes on Monday 1 Jun 2026