Grief Counselor - Washington, DC

Grief Counselor - Washington, DC at Capital Caring Health

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The Grief Counselor provides short‑term counseling support to individuals, children, and families who are coping with grief and loss issues due to a death. This may include anticipatory grief support. Services are available to hospice families as well as the larger community.

• Align professional practice with Capital Caring Health’s mission to provide patients and their families with advanced illness care of the highest quality and in accordance with the core values of patients and families first, always do the right thing, and respect everyone.
• Develop the Bereavement Plan of Care based upon the IDT assessment after the time of patient death, and includes the following:
• Assess family/caregiver grief and loss issues related to death of patient.
• Offer short‑term individual/family counseling, and access to support groups and workshops.
• Offer phone calls, condolence cards, grief literature, and special programs to meet the needs of the grieving population.
• Provide grief interventions tailored to meet the needs of the client, factoring in age and any other factors which impact services.
• Assess the impact of social, spiritual, and cultural issues on the grief reaction.
• Complete community‑based referrals as indicated.
• Assess for complicated grief reactions.
• Provide community based short‑term individual/family grief counseling due to issues related to death, as requested.
• Participate in the provision of education, support, and supervision to CCH intern programs.
• Actively seek to provide grief support/education to residents and staff of area partner facilities (ALF/SNF/INF and ICF/IMR).
• Develop and facilitate grief support groups, workshops and special programs to meet the needs of and within assigned regional area. Collaborate these activities with staff in other regions as well as IDT.
• Complete all Family Service On‑Call shift requirements in accordance with their regional expectations.

• Participate in all QUAPI and organizationally sponsored in‑service trainings and webinars.
• Provide Bereavement orientation and training of new staff, volunteers, and interns.
• Maintain clinical records of clients served within electronic medical record and in accordance with CHAP/organizational compliance standards.
• Effectively utilize organizational documentation and tracking tools for data collection.

• Communicate effectively through both oral and written communications across settings.
• Protect client rights to confidentiality in accordance with Capital Caring Health and HIPAA policies and regulations.
• Maintain a person‑centered, non‑judgmental approach to service provision while treating everyone with dignity and respect.
• Maintain professional boundaries with all workplace interactions.
• Convey warmth, compassion, and empathy in promoting patient right to self‑determination while being mindful of individual differences which includes cultural, spiritual, ethnic, and gender diversity.
• Respond promptly to requests for grief education for the larger community and for individuals seeking services.
• Participate in offering staff grief support related to their Hospice work.

• Achieve expected productivity standard as defined by the organization and in alignment with best practices.

The Grief Counselor will only perform supervisory duties when recommended and educated to do so by organizational leadership.

At least 3 years of clinical counseling experience in the areas of death/dying grief, loss and survivorship. Related clinical experience in varied multi‑disciplinary settings and with short‑term grief counseling with individuals, couples, children, families, and…