St Wilfrid's Hospice, Eastbourne
Ella Williams is an experienced counselling services lead at St Wilfrid's Hospice in Eastbourne since April 2012, where clinical responsibilities include counselling patients and families dealing with life-limiting illnesses while participating as an active member of the multidisciplinary team. Ella has been the director of Ella Williams Counselling and Supervision since August 2009, offering compassionate support to clients facing various challenges. Additionally, Ella served as the London and South East Regional Representative for the Association of Bereavement Service Coordinators from September 2018 to November 2022 and worked as a counsellor at Sussex Breakeven from May 2010 to May 2014, assisting problem gamblers and their families. Educational credentials include a Foundation Degree in Person Centred Counselling from the University of Brighton and further studies at Middlesex University and the International School of Lusaka.
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St Wilfrid's Hospice, Eastbourne
Our mission is to transform end of life care for the people of Eastbourne, Seaford, Hailsham, Uckfield, Heathfield and all the points in between. We serve a population of 235,000 people covering an area of around 300 square miles. Our expert teams work to help people to live well until the end of their lives and to support their family and friends. We provide care in our 20-bed Inpatient Unit, through our Wellbeing service and, increasingly, to families in their own homes. St Wilfrid's Hospice was opened in 1982 in Mill Gap Road in Eastbourne when outpatients visited once a week for tea. In 1983 the hospice accepted its first inpatients and in 2013 it moved to the purpose-built building on Broadwater Way, equipped with a 20-bed Inpatient Unit and Wellbeing Centre. We continue to provide specialist care for people with any progressive, advanced life-limiting illness. Referrals are made by the patient's GP or other healthcare professionals and care is delivered by a team that includes consultants in palliative medicine, specialist nurses, occupational therapists, physiotherapists, counsellors and social workers. Our mission over the next five years is to continue to reach out and transform end of life care for more people in our catchment area in a range of local settings through our Closer to You campaign. We need your support to do this. We rely on the generous support of our community to help provide this free care to our patients and their families. We want to see a community where people talk openly about dying, live well until the end of their life and where nobody dies alone, afraid or in pain.