St Josephs Hospice

St Joseph’s Hospice looks after and supports people over 18 years of age with incurable life limiting conditions. We aim to help people to ‘live’ with their illness as comfortably and independently as they can. We also aim to support friends, families and carers who may also be affected by an individual's illness.

St Joseph’s Psychological Therapies Team provides support to:

  • St Joseph’s patients and their families and carers, including children and young people.
  • Bereaved children and their carers in Hackney, Tower Hamlets and Newham whose bereavement was not connected to St Joseph’s
  • Bereaved adults who are relatives or friends of patients who have died under the care of St Joseph’s or another hospice.
  • Hackney residents age 18-50 who are bereaved or anticipating bereavement, and whose bereavement is not connected to St Joseph’s
  • Haringey residents who are bereaved or anticipating bereavement following a terminal illness
  • Bereaved Islington residents who would benefit from befriending and/or a support group.

Title of role: / Supervisor of Supervision
Responsible to: / Psychological Therapies Team Manager
Role Summary /
  • The purpose of this post is to provide clinical supervision to agroup of counsellors and psychotherapists in the Psychological Therapies Team (PTT) at St. Joseph’s Hospice (STJH)from a wide range of modalities. This is to support their supervision oftrainee and qualified volunteer counsellors and therapists from various modalities who work with patients, families (including children and young people) and the bereaved.

Key tasks /
  • To provide a monthly group supervision session at STJH 11:00-12:30 on the second Thursday of each month.

Skills and qualities - essential /
  • To be a qualified counsellor or psychotherapist with substantialpost-qualification clinical experience.
  • Substantial experience of facilitating supervision groups.
  • Experience of working with people from a wide range of cultural, socio-economic and marginalised communities.
  • Understanding and experience of the dynamics of working in a team and working in an institution.
  • The ability to supervise the work of a group of supervisors trained in a variety of modalities.
  • The capacity to create a safe and contained space within which experienced supervisors can bring issues that are difficult, challenging and problematic.
  • Ability to facilitate the group to work together on specific service wide supervision issues.
  • To work in accordance with STJH policies and procedures and within the BACP Ethical Framework.

Skills and qualities - desirable /
  • Experience of supervising supervisors
  • Experience within the field of palliative care and/or bereavement.

Personal qualities /
  • An authority to challenge when necessary
  • A willingness to contribute from own practice and perspectives
  • Sense of fun and creativity
  • Resilience, robustness and excellent self-care