Bereavement Counselor - New York, New York, United States
1 day ago

Job description
Overview
Hybrid schedule: 4 days in office / 1 day remote.
MJHS is a large not-for-profit health system in the Greater New York area. Our range of health services include home care, hospice and palliative care for adults and children, rehabilitation and nursing care at Menorah, and the research based MJHS Institute for Innovation and Palliative Care. We also offer Elderplan/HomeFirst: health plans for Medicare and dual-eligible individuals. As a not-for-profit organization, many of our programs and services are made possible through the generosity of grateful families, corporate donors and grants, as well as our own employees.
At MJHS, quality care is our mission. We are committed to creating a workforce as diverse as our community. We have a great culture; we offer great benefits that include a work/life balance and competitive rates.
MJHS attracts individuals who see their work as a calling as well as a job. Professionals in every job category have stated that they appreciate being left to make their own decisions, are encouraged to voice their opinions, and are given the necessary breathing room to do their work with minimal supervision. Yet, at the same time, they feel that management and their co-workers are solidly behind them and readily accessible.
The MJHS Difference
At MJHS, we are more than a workplace; we are a supportive community committed to excellence, respect, and providing high-quality, personalized health care services. We foster collaboration, celebrate achievements, and promote fairness for all. Our contributions are recognized with comprehensive compensation and benefits, career development, and the opportunity for a healthy work-life balance, advancement within our organization and the fulfillment of having a lasting impact on the communities we serve.
Benefits include:
- Tuition Reimbursement for all full and part-time staff
- Generous paid time off, including your birthday
- Affordable and comprehensive medical, dental and vision coverage for employee and family members
- Two retirement plans 403(b) AND Employer Paid Pension
- Flexible spending
- And MORE
MJHS companies are qualified employers under the Federal Government's Paid Student Loan Forgiveness Program (PSLF)
Responsibilities
Our groundbreaking hospice and palliative care programs offer a significant difference when dealing with a life-limiting condition. We offer a broad range of services in the community or facility-based to help patients and their families ease the burden of managing a life-limiting illness or end of life care.
The Bereavement Counselor at MJHS will demonstrate a thorough understanding of the stages of grief and how it manifests in a variety of ways for the bereaved such as emotionally, physically, socially, physiologically and spiritually. As the grief process is unique, everyone's adaptation to loss is different as is their ways of coping. The Bereavement counselor will utilize their professional training and clinical expertise to ensure best practices in bereavement care post death for up to 13 months to all identified primary caregivers. Some of the supportive therapeutic services 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. Familiarity with the hospice concept and its implementation is required. Bereavement counselors also provide support and guidance in research initiatives, marketing efforts, participates in agency wide committees, quality improvement initiatives, maintains a grief support role to hospice staff and offer professional grief education to the community at large. Bereavement counselors also engage in clinical training and supervision of bereavement intern and will assist when asked to support department functions and goals.- Effectively triages bereavement referrals to ensure appropriate level of intervention will be provided and collaboratively work routinely with the 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: i.e.: 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.
Qualifications
- Master's Degree or PhD. 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 adult with complex trauma histories and PTSD symptomology and/or familiar with PTSD system approaches and PCTI based practices
Min
USD $68,838.31/Yr.
Max
USD $82,605.97/Yr.
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