Counselor-Grief

Summary

Provides a wide array of social work services to patients and families, including performing psychosocial assessments, developing and coordinating discharge plans to ensure continuity of care, and providing supportive counseling to enhance coping and functioning ability. May be asked to resolve issues occuring on all shifts, 7 days a week. Reports to Director of Clinical Bereavement. Performs other duties as assigned.

Responsibilities

• Utilizes social work skills by conducting psychosocial assessments of patients and families of all ages to determine support needs.
• Provides supportive counseling to individuals, families and groups to address identified concerns and to enhance understanding of, coping with, and adjustment to illness/hospitalization.
• Maintains current knowledge of and accessibility to community resources, placement facilities, and financial agencies to meet patient and family needs.
• Complies with policies that support patient's fundamental right to considerate care, protect their personal dignity and respect their cultural, psychosocial and spiritual values in an effort to meet patient's care needs and preferences.
• Completes assigned goals.

Requirements, Preferences and Experience

Education

Preferred: MS -- prefer LMSW or LCSW; TN -- prefer LMSW or LCSW

Minimum: MS -- LSW; TN -- MSW or Counselor

Experience

Preferred: 3 years of experience in clinical social work

Minimum: 1 year experience in a medical/clinical setting.

Licensure, Registration, Certification

Preferred: LCSW;LMSW

Special Skills

Minimum: Advanced communication, conflict management, organizational and planning skills. Basic computer literacy skills.

About Baptist Memorial Health Care

At Baptist, we owe our success to our colleagues, who have both technical expertise and a compassionate attitude. Every day they carry out Christ's three-fold ministry-healing, preaching and teaching. And, we reward their efforts with compensation and benefits packages that are highly competitive in the Mid-South health care community. For two consecutive years, Baptist has won a Best in Benefits award for offering the best benefit plans compared with their peer groups. Winners are chosen based on plan designs, premiums and the results of a Benefits Benchmarking Survey.

At Baptist, We Offer:

• Competitive salaries
• Paid vacation/time off
• Continuing education opportunities
• Generous retirement plan
• Health insurance, including dental and vision
• Sick leave
• Service awards
• Free parking
• Short-term disability
• Life insurance
• Health care and dependent care spending accounts
• Education assistance/continuing education
• Employee referral program

Job Summary:
Position: 19920 - Counselor-Grief
Facility: Center for Good Grief
Department: TS Milla's House
Category: Social Services
Type: Non Clinical
Work Type: Full Time
Work Schedule: Days
Location: US:TN:Collierville
Located in the Memphis metro area