Job title: Grief In Pieces Honorary Therapists X 2
Responsible to: Senior Suicide Bereavement Practitioner and Clinical Services Manager
Hours: Up to 3 clients per week, 2 hours fortnightly supervision
Contract Length: 12 Months (with option to extend)
Location: Office is located 12 Orsman Road N1 5QJ/Remote
We are recruiting for a clinical placement at Mind City, Hackney and Waltham Forest in the Grief in Pieces: Support for Suicide Loss Team, Psychological Therapies & Wellbeing Department
A placement in the Grief in Pieces: Support for Suicide Loss team is an opportunity to work in a specialist postvention service, offering 1-2-1 grief counselling to community members bereaved by suicide. This would be a highly valuable honorary placement, where, among other things, you would strengthen your working knowledge of complicated and traumatic grief, and the complexity of the loss and trauma specific to suicide loss. You would have recourse to the team’s expertise and clinical supervision in this area, and you would develop your therapeutic skills through delivering a highly impactful grief counselling model which gently facilitates a process of ‘expressing, connecting and honouring’ with the eventual aim of an individualised journey of post-traumatic growth.
What are we looking for from our Honorary Therapists (Grief in Pieces):
- Prior experience, at least 100 hours supervised, one to one, clinical work. This placement is best suited as a second or third placement and not a first.
- Be working towards a qualification on a minimum level 5 equivalent course
- Some training in working remotely (online therapeutic work)
- Availability for one afternoon/evening a week to see up to three clients in-person
- Flexibility to work with clients remotely as is needed, from Mind CHWF premises. It is important that you have a good working laptop from which these can be delivered.
- Availability to attend fortnightly supervision, online
- Have lived experience of mental health and/or suicidality
- To adhere to the code of practice of their registering body, be professional, kind, compassionate, to have initiative and maintain communications with their colleagues appropriately
- To read, understand and follow the procedures and policies of Mind CHWF
- Attending personal therapy once a week, throughout their placement
- Candidates able to commit to a minimum of a one-year placement (12 full months).
We also welcome applications from newly qualified therapists who are seeking to expand their experience and gain clinical hours towards accreditation. We encourage applications from those who speak one or more community languages and from those who reflect the rich diversity of our clients.
Please see the application pack below, including the Role Profile for more information.
DBS clearance at Enhanced (without Barring) is required for this role, for which Mind CHWF will pay.
About Mind in the City, Hackney and Waltham Forest:
We are a multi-disciplinary provider of specialist mental health services and a part of the Mind Federation.
We promote both recovery from ill health for people with recurrent and enduring mental health difficulties and early intervention for those at risk of developing mental health issues, or who struggle with common mental health conditions.
We currently support around 5,000 people a year through a variety of services focusing on psychological, social, economic and workplace wellbeing, and support minoritised communities.
Our values are:
Connected: Creating a compassionate and supportive community.
Fair: We strive for equity- no-one’s needs should go unmet.
Brave: We walk with people, offering help by doing what works – proven or new
Working with Mind CHWF means you’ll be part of a dedicated, passionate, and professional workforce who cares about the work they do and make a real difference to the lives of the people in the City of London, Hackney and Waltham Forest.
We are committed to actively becoming anti-racist in everything we do. This is a critical priority for Mind CHWF. We embrace diversity and understand that being an inclusive organisation that recognises different perspectives, will enable us to provide excellent services.
We are committed to ensuring all our employees are treated fairly and equitably at work and promoting equity in physical and mental health for all. All staff, trainees and volunteers have opportunities to participate in a wide range of in-house and external trainings through our networks.
At Mind CHWF, we offer significant personal and professional development opportunities, encourage innovation and initiative from our committed and talented practitioners, and offer skill-building and experience of working across multiple projects and modalities in an award winning mental health organisation. Those with lived experience of Mental Health struggles are encouraged to apply. DBS clearance at Enhanced (without Barring) is required for this role.
We are committed to ensuring all our employees are treated fairly and equitably at work and promoting equity in physical and mental health for all.
Those with lived experience of Mental Health are encouraged to apply.
Value-based Recruitment:
We know that for various reasons, not everybody who can successfully perform in a role, performs their best under traditional interview/selection procedures. We are therefore seeking ways to breakdown further barriers in our recruitment & selection process.
Shorted-listed candidates will be provided with some questions to help them prepare for the interview.
How to apply:
To be considered for this post, we need to receive the:
- Completed volunteer application form; and
- Attach your CV as well.
- Please write a cover letter about your training and experience and touch on the below criteria:
Awareness of complicated grief and trauma
Awareness of transcultural issues in counselling
Awareness of LGBTQI+ and what Intersectionality means to you and your practice
Working in a time limited way and with complexity and risk
Why training and your future aspirations
– Once you have completed the application form, please click here and upload it along with your latest CV.
The closing date is by 19th June 2026, however, please do not delay applying as this advert may close before the stated deadline if we find a suitable applicant for the role.
We are a disability confident employer. All applicants with a disability, who meet the minimum essential short-listing criteria are guaranteed an interview. If this applies to you, please let us know in your application.
Your privacy and the security of your data is our top priority. Please take a moment to read through our applicant’s privacy notice.
The closing date is by 19th June 2026, however, please do not delay applying as this advert may close before the stated deadline if we find a suitable applicant for the role.
Your privacy and the security of your data is our top priority. Please take a moment to read through our applicant’s privacy notice.
