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City/State: Saint Louis, Missouri

Categories: Clinical Services and Support

Shift: Days

Job Status: Full-Time

Req ID: 90105

Pay Range: $52,083.20 – $84,822.40 / year (Salary or hourly rate is based on job qualifications and relevant work experience)

Additional Information About the Role

Join the BJC Hospice team in providing bereavement support for families. You will support our north team in providing virtual, phone and home visits to follow up with families for 13 months.

The position will also lead grief support groups and participate in Stepping Stones camp as well as various support groups throughout the year.

Monday - Friday position with some evenings and weekends.

Overview

**BJC Home Care** offers patients and their families a complete range of home care services, including skilled nursing services, adult and pediatric hospice and supportive care, rehabilitation therapy, home infusion therapy, infusion treatment rooms, home medical equipment and high-tech respiratory care. Specialty home care programs also are available, including adult and pediatric asthma, cardiac, diabetes, orthopedic and wound care programs.

BJC Home Care provides care to thousands of patients in both Missouri and Illinois. Serving more than 25 counties, it has become the largest home care network in the region and one of the largest in the country.

The BJC Home Care Services Supportive Care staff offer patients with life-limiting illness an opportunity to ease the transition from curative treatment to Hospice care through a unique program. Supportive Care offers a bridge between curative and terminal care. It is a multidisciplinary approach, holistic in nature, centered on the needs of the patient and patient's family, that provides coordinated medical, emotional and spiritual care.

Preferred Qualifications

Role Purpose

Responsible for working with adults and children to help them understand and cope with feelings of grief before and/or after the death of a loved one.

Responsibilities

+ Provides support to client's coping with their grief, and provides anticipatory and follow-up bereavement visits.

+ Evaluates grief resources and selects those to be utilized by BJC Hospice.

+ Coordinates grief activities.

+ Refers families to available services, counselors and support groups in the community.

+ Serves as a grief resource in the community and is involved in community organizations focused on education and support of pediatric and adult grief.

Minimum Requirements

Education

+ Master's Degree - Social Services/related

Experience

+ <2 years

Supervisor Experience

+ No Experience

Licenses & Certifications

+ Valid Driver's License

Preferred Requirements

Experience

+ 2-5 years

Licenses & Certifications

+ Art Therapy Registration

+ Lic Clinical Social Worker

+ Lic Professional Counselor

Benefits and Legal Statement

BJC Total Rewards

At BJC we’re committed to providing you and your family with benefits and resources to help you manage your physical, emotional, social and financial well-being.

+ Comprehensive medical, dental, vison, life insurance, and legal services available first day of the month after hire date

+ Disability insurance* paid for by BJC

+ Pension Plan*/403(b) Plan funded by BJC

+ 401(k) plan with BJC match

+ Tuition Assistance available on first day

+ BJC Institute for Learning and Development

+ Health Care and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts

+ Paid Time Off benefit combines vacation, sick days, holidays and personal time

+ Adoption assistance

To learn more, go to www.bjctotalrewards.com/Benefits (https://www.bjctotalrewards.org/Benefits)

*Not all benefits apply to all jobs

The above information on this description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees in this position. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. Equal Opportunity Employer