Bereavement Services Manager

By The Bay Health; Larkspur (CA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

By the Bay Health is a nonprofit organization delivering hospice and home-based care across California. The Bereavement Services Manager provides organization-wide leadership for bereavement programs and oversees the annual children’s bereavement camp, ensuring consistent quality while supporting local community needs.

The role requires strategic, operational leadership, budgeting, and coordination across multiple agencies, with a focus on compassionate, patient-centered care and staff

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in mental health from an accredited university.
• Minimum of five years clinical experience in health care settings, including life‑threatening and chronic illness, grief and loss.
• Minimum of two years’ experience managing mental health, bereavement, or related clinical services.
• Experience leading teams or programs across multiple locations or agencies.
• Experience with children’s grief programs or camps are strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic and operational leadership for bereavement services across the enterprise ensuring high-quality, compliant services within approved fiscal parameters.
• Develop and implement organization-wide standards, workflows, policies, and measures for bereavement services while supporting appropriate local practices reflecting agency needs.
• Ensure effective use of volunteers in bereavement services and the annual children’s bereavement camp in coordination with Volunteer Services leadership and local agency teams.
• Assist the designated executive leader in developing annual bereavement services and children’s bereavement camp budgets and monitor resources across agencies within budget.
• Lead and supervise planning, implementation, coordination, and evaluation of bereavement services across the enterprise.

Education

Master’s degree in mental health

Job description

By The Bay Health, a non-profit established in 1975, set the standard for hospice in the U.S. by emphasizing the role of the patient in making important medical decisions. Our spectrum of home-based services now includes Skilled Home Health Care, Palliative Care, Adult Hospice Care and Pediatric Care. Our team approach strives to address practical, social, emotional and spiritual aspects of care, with the goal to maximize quality of life for our patients, caregivers and families.

This full-time position offers competitive pay, generous benefits and a supportive work environment.

The Bereavement Services Manager provides organization-wide leadership for the bereavement programs across our agencies. The Manager establishes, implements, coordinates, and evaluates bereavement services across all our hospice agencies to promote consistent quality while supporting the needs of each local community. This role is also responsible for the planning and execution of the organization’s annual children’s bereavement camp.

Schedule

Monday - Friday; 8:30am - 5:00pm

Location

Larkspur, CA

By the Bay Health follows all CDPH vaccine requirements for healthcare personnel.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities include

• Provide strategic and operational leadership for bereavement services across the enterprise ensuring high-quality, compliant services within approved fiscal parameters
• Develop and implement organization-wide standards, workflows, policies, and measures for bereavement services while supporting appropriate local practices that reflect the needs of each agency and community
• Ensure effective use of volunteers in bereavement services and the annual children’s bereavement camp in coordination with Volunteer Services leadership and local agency teams
• Assist the designated executive leader in developing the annual bereavement services and children’s bereavement camp budgets, and monitor resources across all agencies within approved budgetary limitations
• Lead and supervise the planning, implementation, coordination, and evaluation of services provided by the bereavement teams across the enterprise

Education/Experience

• Master’s degree in mental health from an accredited university
• Minimum of five years clinical experience, preferably in a health care setting providing clinical services in the areas of life‑threatening and chronic illness, grief, and loss, individual, family and group therapy
• Minimum of two years’ experience managing mental health, bereavement, or related clinical services preferred
• Experience leading teams or programs across multiple locations or agencies
• Experience with children’s grief programs or camps are strongly preferred

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations

• Current license in mental health by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences
• Certification to provide clinical supervision as outlined by the Board of Behavioral Sciences

Pay Range

$110K - $125K annually

By the Bay Health is proud to serve our community as an equal employment opportunity employer. Everyone is valued and welcome at BTBH. Our organization is committed to diversity, equity and continues to build a culture of inclusion by recruiting, screening, hiring and retaining any qualified individual without regard to age, race, color, ethnicity, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, disability, marital status, registered domestic partner status, citizenship, physical or mental disability, legally protected medical condition, family care status, military care status, veteran status or any other consideration made unlawful by Federal, state, or local laws.