Treatment Support Counsellor

Job Title: Treatment Support Counsellor

Ref: TSC450

Contract: Permanent

Hours: Part time (22.5 hours worked over 3 days)

Salary: £29,000 - £31,000 pro-rata, per annum

Location: This is a home-based role.

About the Employer

Our client is the cancer health and wellbeing charity. They help people feel better in mind, body and spirit by offering support through their team of cancer support experts (which includes doctors, nutritionists, counsellors and exercise therapists)

This charity helps people with cancer to feel more physically and emotionally able to manage the impacts of their diagnosis and treatment, be more in control of their choices and have the best quality of life possible. By making their services freely available, their aim is for all people with cancer to be able to access the high-quality support they need.

This organisation have been working in partnership with GenesisCare UK, a specialist healthcare company, since 2013. Together delivering an integrated cancer care approach which includes complementary treatment support and lifestyle advice for patients undergoing chemotherapy and radiotherapy at all of their 14 centres across the UK. For over 40 years, this charity has supported people with cancer to feel more physically and emotionally able to manage the impacts of their diagnosis and treatment, be more in control of their choices and have the best quality of life possible.

The Role

This is an exciting opportunity to join an existing team of counsellors working remotely to support cancer patients being treated in the 14 GenesisCare centres across England.

This role requires excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to establish effective rapport and deliver therapeutic interventions via telephone or video link. This employer is looking for a professional who can work in a flexible, intelligent, and creative way. Candidates should have experience of working as a counsellor within the NHS, charity sector or private practice, and have knowledge, experience/understanding of how cancer treatment can affect a patient's health and wellbeing.

Key role considerations

• This role requires remote delivery of counselling sessions.
• Most of the patient work is based on a short-term relationship (4 sessions)

Through the successful partnership with GenesisCare, the treatment support service that our client offers to cancer patients has shown to be both statistically and clinically significant. If you are driven to support patients whilst they undergo cancer treatment, this could be the opportunity for you.

In return for your hard work and dedication you will enjoy a wide variety of benefits including:

• 30 days holiday plus 8 bank holidays (pro rata)
• Regional allowance pro rata, per annum
• Enhanced sick pay after six month's service
• Auto enrolment into the company pension scheme
• Free Life Assurance
• Family friendly policies with enhanced maternity and paternity leave after one year of service
• Specsavers Corporate eyecare test
• Cycle to work scheme

Thank you for considering this charity, they look forward to hearing from you!

Timetable for appointment:

Closing date: Thursday 6 November at 9.00am

Interview details: Wednesday 11 November via Teams

Start date: To be agreed upon appointment with successful candidate

Interested?

If you would like to find out more, please click the apply button. You will be directed to our website to complete your application for this position.

This employer is committed to promoting equality, diversity, and inclusion throughout the organisation. They are proactively taking action to support EDI and Wellbeing to support their ethos of creating a diverse culture that is reflective of both their employees and the lived experience of all communities touched by cancer. They welcome applications from individuals from all backgrounds regardless of age, gender, gender identity, gender expression, ethnicity, sexual orientation, faith or disability.

No agencies please.