Bereavement Counselor (Per Diem)
Metropolitan Jewish Health System, Inc., New York, NY, United States
Bereavement Counselor Role
As a Bereavement Counselor at MJHS, you will demonstrate a thorough understanding of the stages of grief and its manifestations across emotional, physical, social, physiological, and spiritual domains. You will utilize your professional training and clinical expertise to provide best practices in bereavement care post‑death for up to 13 months to all identified primary caregivers.
Supportive therapeutic services you will offer include short‑term individual, couple, and family counseling; support groups specific to the type of loss experienced; annual memorial services; check‑in calls; and guidance to referrals and resources as needed.
Responsibilities
Effectively triage bereavement referrals to ensure an appropriate level of intervention will be provided and collaborate routinely with IDT members to meet the grief and loss needs of patients, family members, and staff.
Facilitate the provision of bereavement programming and/or events along with direct care services, e.g., individual, couples, children, family and group counseling services specific to the loss experienced.
Engage in process improvement activities to enhance the needs of program and organization.
Provide support and guidance in research initiatives, marketing efforts; participate in agency-wide committees, quality improvement initiatives; maintain a grief support role to hospice staff and offer professional grief education to the community at large.
Engage in clinical training and supervision of bereavement interns, and assist when asked to support department functions and goals.
Qualifications
Master’s Degree or Ph.D. in social work, psychology, mental health counseling, marriage or family counseling.
Minimum of three to five years’ experience working in clinical social work, mental health clinic setting, hospice bereavement or senior case management and/or various health care settings.
Preferred experience working with adults with complex trauma histories and PTSD symptomology and/or familiarity with PTSD system approaches and PCTI based practices.
Familiarity with the hospice concept and its implementation is required.
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As a Bereavement Counselor at MJHS, you will demonstrate a thorough understanding of the stages of grief and its manifestations across emotional, physical, social, physiological, and spiritual domains. You will utilize your professional training and clinical expertise to provide best practices in bereavement care post‑death for up to 13 months to all identified primary caregivers.
Supportive therapeutic services you will offer include short‑term individual, couple, and family counseling; support groups specific to the type of loss experienced; annual memorial services; check‑in calls; and guidance to referrals and resources as needed.
Responsibilities
Effectively triage bereavement referrals to ensure an appropriate level of intervention will be provided and collaborate routinely with IDT members to meet the grief and loss needs of patients, family members, and staff.
Facilitate the provision of bereavement programming and/or events along with direct care services, e.g., individual, couples, children, family and group counseling services specific to the loss experienced.
Engage in process improvement activities to enhance the needs of program and organization.
Provide support and guidance in research initiatives, marketing efforts; participate in agency-wide committees, quality improvement initiatives; maintain a grief support role to hospice staff and offer professional grief education to the community at large.
Engage in clinical training and supervision of bereavement interns, and assist when asked to support department functions and goals.
Qualifications
Master’s Degree or Ph.D. in social work, psychology, mental health counseling, marriage or family counseling.
Minimum of three to five years’ experience working in clinical social work, mental health clinic setting, hospice bereavement or senior case management and/or various health care settings.
Preferred experience working with adults with complex trauma histories and PTSD symptomology and/or familiarity with PTSD system approaches and PCTI based practices.
Familiarity with the hospice concept and its implementation is required.
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