Community Grief Counselor

By-the-Bay-Healt; Larkspur (CA); Hybrid; USD 41,000 - 55,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Job summary

By The Bay Health seeks a Community Grief Counselor to join our Bereavement Team, providing individual counseling and facilitating groups for clients coping with grief and loss.

Applicants should have a Master’s in mental health, CA licensure or eligibility, and at least two years of clinical experience in healthcare settings addressing life-threatening and chronic illness, grief and loss. A CA driver’s license is required; bilingual abilities are a plus.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in mental health from an accredited university
• Active California licensure (LMFT/LCSW/LPCC) strongly preferred
• Minimum of two years clinical experience in healthcare settings addressing grief and loss

Responsibilities

• Provide grief counseling services to community members including outreach, assessment, treatment planning, intervention, education, and referral
• Facilitate grief support groups
• Set appropriate fee for services and process payments per organization policies
• Screen potential group members for group appropriateness and refer when needed

Skills

Bilingual (Spanish/Cantonese/Mandarin)

Empathy

Counseling

Education

Master's degree in mental health

CA licensure (LMFT/LCSW/LPCC) preferred

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.

We are seeking aCommunity Grief Counselor to join our Bereavement Team. This person will provide individual counseling services and facilitate groups for community counseling clients coping with issues of grief and loss.

Schedule:

Location:

Larkspur, CA office; 1 day remote option

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

Essential Duties & Responsibilities Include:

• Provide grief counseling services to community members including outreach, assessment, treatment planning, intervention, education, and referral.
• Facilitate grief support groups.
• Set appropriate fee for services; collect and process payment for services in compliance with organization policies and procedures.
• Screen potential group members for appropriateness for a support group. Make appropriate referrals for those not ready for a group.

Tech savvy and bi-lingual in Spanish, Cantonese or Mandarin is a plus!

Education/Experience:

• Master's degree in the area of mental health from an accredited university; clinical licensure with the CA Board of Behavioral Science strongly preferred.
• Minimum of two 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.

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations:

• Current CA LMFT, LCSW or LPCC License
• Current California Driver's License and automobile insurance that meets State of California requirements, if driving a car.

Pay Range:

Orientation/trainings - $30 - $40 hourly

Session Rates:

Individual Visit - $75.40/session

Group Visit: $116.00/hr.

Unaccomplished Visit - $40.00/session

Initial Visit $87.00/visit

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.