Grief Specialist - Fulltime

Children's Hospital and Health System • Milwaukee, WI

20h

About The Position

Works within Children's Wisconsin Grief Services, and collaboration with other hospital teams like complex care, to support children and families experiencing living loss, anticipatory grief and grief due to bereavement. Helps families navigate grief, works on a treatment plan and manages the stresses of loss, including emotional, physical, mental, social and spiritual; connects with other support services. Provides support for children and families affected by trauma and loss, and peripheral trainings for the organization and community partners specific to living loss, coping, grief, critical stress management and resiliency. Assists with other work with the agency as requested. Responsibilities include being current on different therapeutic techniques for our grieving populations and maintaining best practices.

Requirements

• Master's Degree in social work, professional counseling, or psychology required.
• License Social Worker Clinical, or License LPC-Professional Counselor required.
• 1+ years prior experience in any setting interacting with children and adolescents required.
• Proficiency in professional skills related to grief responses, grief assessment, grief intervention, cultural diversity, assessment/intervention, group facilitation and the understanding of family dynamics.
• Excellent communication skills (verbal and written) and the ability to interact effectively with people of varying socioeconomic classes with differing lifestyles, spiritual beliefs, and/or cultural values and with interdisciplinary health care professionals.
• Analytical ability in order to evaluate and resolve problems of grieving families and refer to appropriate outside resource.
• Utilizing independent judgment in order to apply effective assessment and interventions to the individual family being served.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time