sAge Bereavement Service
- Location: Age UK Northamptonshire
- Price: Free
This is a free service, funded by National Lottery Community Fund and delivered in partnership with Northamptonshire Mind.
Please note, this service is not available outside Age UK Northamptonshire - Head Office's catchment area.
Age UK Northamptonshire
The William and Patricia Venton Centre
York Road
Northampton
Northamptonshire
NN1 5QJ
United Kingdom
Email: bereavement@ageuknorthants.org.uk
Telephone: 01604 215839
Website: https://www.ageuk.org.uk/northamptonshire/our-services/
The sAge Bereavement Service provides confidential advice, information and support to adults living in Northamptonshire affected by grief.
What does the service offer?
We offer one to one bereavement support to individuals as they begin to adjust to life following the loss of someone important to them.
We also provide a counselling service to patients with an End of Life or Palliative Diagnosis. This service also extends to patients' family members and close friends, providing counselling both before and after the bereavement.
The sAge Bereavement Service aims to provide confidential specialist bereavement support in a safe, non-judgemental space where individuals can express their emotions, begin to make sense of their grief and explore healthy ways to cope with the many mixed feelings and emotions they may be experiencing.
Bereavement support
We offer bereavement support to individuals over the age of 18 living in Northamptonshire as they begin to adjust to life following a bereavement.
• The support is provided by specialist trained bereavement supporters.
• It is time limited, providing up to eight sessions of one to one counselling: by telephone or online via Teams or Zoom or face-to-face in a community location. This can be weekly or fortnightly sessions lasting between 50 and 60 minutes.
• The service is for people who have been bereaved within 18 months of the referral being made.
In certain circumstances we may be able to offer counselling sessions in the client's home if they are housebound.
Pre-bereavement support or anticipatory grief
The service also provides specialist one-to-one, confidential counselling to adults with an End of Life or Palliative Care diagnosis with an expectancy of within 12 months. The anticipatory grief service aims to support anyone affected by the physical, emotional, practical and relational changes and challenges that an End of Life or Palliative Care diagnosis may bring and extends to patients’ families and close friends.
When appropriate we can also offer bereavement support to patients’ families and close friends following the loss.
• Our anticipatory grief counselling is provided by specialist trained counsellors who are members of the British Association for Counsellors and Psychotherapist (BACP).
• The sessions are provided one to one, either by telephone or online and each session lasts between 50 and 60 minutes
All the sAge Bereavement Service Team have an Enhanced DBS check and adhere to the British Association for Counsellors and Psychotherapists (BACP) Ethical Framework, a copy of which can be provided upon request.
The referral process
If you have been recently bereaved and feel our bereavement support may be helpful for you, or you are a patient, family member or close friend of someone with an End of Life or Palliative Care diagnosis within 12 months and feel they would find anticipatory grief support beneficial, please complete our referral form via the link below. A health professional can also complete this form on your behalf if you would prefer and give your consent.
Alternatively, you can contact us by telephone on 01604 215839 or email us on bereavement@ageuknorthants.org.uk and we can email or post a referral form to you.
If you have any queries about the sAge Bereavement Service, please phone or email us. We are available between 9.30am and 5pm, Monday to Friday (except bank holidays). A messaging service is available for out of hours calls and you are welcome to leave a voice message.
Fill in our Referral Form
Once we receive your referral form or enquiry one of the Bereavement Service Team will contact you within five working days to discuss this with you.
01604 215839
Print out this form
You can use this link if you prefer to print out the form and post it back to us.
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