- Facilitates children or parent support group within the program context
- Maintains documentation associated with group participation
- Connects families to community resources when appropriate
- Hunterdon Hospice Interdisciplinary Team, Hunterdon Hospice families, Families in the community who have experienced loss and community schools and agencies
- Reports to: Hunterdon Hospice Director
- Supervises: Staff and Volunteers of the Youth Art Bereavement Group
- Minimum Education: Required: Associate's Degree Certificate and/or Advanced Specialized or Technical Training in Children's Bereavement Preferred: Bachelor's Degree Master's Degree in Social Work, Nursing, Counseling or related field
- Required: Two to three years professional experience preferably with loss/grief issues and /or terminally ill patients
- Preferred: None
- Required: None
- Preferred: None
- Required: Professional education in Social Work, Psychology, Counseling, creative Arts Therapy, or affiliated Masters program. Experience and skill in group work process.
- Preferred: None
Youth Bereavement Facilitator - Flemington, United States - Hunterdon Healthcare
Description
Position Summary:
The Youth Art Therapy Bereavement Facilitator is responsible for assisting with the development, in collaboration with the Youth Art Therapy Bereavement Group Coordinator, a viable Youth Bereavement Group work program as an integrated element of the Bereavement component of the Hunterdon Hospice organization. Addresses with children and parents in a support group context, the inter-related psychosocial, emotional, and environmental dynamics which constitute the normal mourning process and grief work following a death in one's family system.
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