Job Summary: Seeking a compassionate and License Clinician to serve as a Bereavement Counselor for clients and families of Samaritan Healthcare & Hospice. Optimal candidate is flexible, knowledgeable and experienced with individual, family and group counseling, with a focus on loss and grief. Position is per diem, afternoon and evening hours and occasional Saturdays for 1:1 grief counseling and support group facilitation.

Job Responsibilities for the Bereavement Counselor Per Diem includes:

• Comprehensively assess client grief related needs and goals, assign appropriate bereavement levels of care and establish bereavement plans of care.
• Provide grief assessment, support, counseling and grief education to individuals and families pre-death and post-death.
• Coordinate services to bereaved hospice family members of patients for 13 months post death.
• Provide grief services via telephone, telehealth and in person from the home base of the Center for Grief, with visitation at the Samaritan Inpatient Centers and occasional in-home visitation.
• Serve as a member of and resource to the Interdisciplinary Care Team by providing consultations pre and post patient death and by providing grief education in-services and professional support to staff, volunteers and community partners.
• Refer bereaved to appropriate community mental health resources when appropriate.
• Provide grief services to Samaritan's community service area through Samaritan’s Center for Grief Support, including grief counseling to individuals and families, facilitation of support groups and in-services on grief and loss.
• Requires NJ LSW, LCSW, LPC or LPAT
• Bilingual (English/Spanish) is preferred
• Ability to work with individuals, families, children, adolescents, teens and elders
• Two years counseling experience, preferably in hospice or healthcare setting, related experiences in family therapy, group therapy counseling, mental health care or crisis intervention is desirable
• Experience and competence with technology used for telehealth service is required
• Excellent interpersonal, communication, organization, judgment, problem solving and customer service skills required
• Experience with insurance billing for counseling services a plus.

Join Our Team

Samaritan is a not-for-profit healthcare provider of life-enhancing care that includes primary care at home, palliative medicine, hospice care, and grief support. We are proud to be here for people, not for profit.

In return for your expertise, you'll enjoy excellent training, generous paid time off, and industry-leading benefits. Be a part of our great team! Apply today!

• Highly competitive salary.
• Generous paid time off.
• Excellent benefits package, supplemented with concierge services, including but not limited to vision, dental, life insurance, Employee Assistance Program, Flexible Spending Account, travel reimbursement, tuition reimbursement, multiple discount programs.
• Opportunity to work from home.
• Career opportunities, promotional opportunities and work schedule flexibility.
• Holidays.
• 403 (b) and employer match.
• Annual employee milestone awards ceremony and recognition activities including peer recognition, and annual department celebrations.
• Samaritan is committed to inclusion, diversity, & access through board and staff committees and according to our employee surveys, employees are highly engaged, rate our management team as highly effective, and embrace our welcoming culture as demonstrated by the number of tenured employees.
• Training and professional development opportunities.
• Employee referral bonuses.
• Performance reviews, merit raises, and bonus opportunities.
• Conveniently-located administrative office with amenities such as an updated kitchen, think tank for brainstorming, quiet meditation room, private mother's room, and more.
• Opportunity to work for South Jersey’s first and largest hospice organization.

Providing Superior Care

Samaritan has been recognized by Strategic Healthcare Programs (SHP) as a “Superior Performer” for achieving an overall caregiver and family satisfaction score that ranked in the top 20% of all eligible SHP clients for the 2019 calendar year.

The annual SHPBest™ award program was created to acknowledge hospice providers that consistently provide high quality service to families and caregivers of patients receiving hospice care.

Not-for-Profit Provider

Our compassionate healthcare experts provide many options for people living with chronic or serious illness:

• primary care,
• supportive palliative medical care,
• hospice care,
• grief support,
• and two inpatient hospice centers.

Samaritan helps patients and their families live their best life every day and has been proudly serving the South Jersey community since 1980.

Skills

• Communication

• Organizational

Behaviors

• Team Player: Works well as a member of a group