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Grief Counselor

Baptist·Collierville, Tennessee

Full Time·On Site·2-5 yrs·Posted 5 days ago
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About the role

Provides psychosocial assessments and supportive counseling to patients and families to enhance coping and functioning. Coordinates discharge plans and utilizes community resources to ensure continuity of care.

Job Summary

Provides a wide array of social work services to patients and families, including performing psychosocial assessments, developing and coordinating discharge plans to ensure continuity of care, and providing supportive counseling to enhance coping and functioning ability. May be asked to resolve issues occuring on all shifts, 7 days a week. Reports to Director of Clinical Bereavement. Performs other duties as assigned.

Responsibilities

  • Utilizes social work skills by conducting psychosocial assessments of patients and families of all ages to determine support needs.
  • Provides supportive counseling to individuals, families and groups to address identified concerns and to enhance understanding of, coping with, and adjustment to illness/hospitalization.
  • Maintains current knowledge of and accessibility to community resources, placement facilities, and financial agencies to meet patient and family needs.
  • Complies with policies that support patient's fundamental right to considerate care, protect their personal dignity and respect their cultural, psychosocial and spiritual values in an effort to meet patient's care needs and preferences.
  • Completes assigned goals.

Specifications

Experience

  • Minimum Required
  • 1 year experience in a medical/clinical setting.
  • Preferred/Desired
  • 3 years of experience in clinical social work
  • Education
  • MS -- must be licensed; TN -- must have certification
  • Minimum Required
  • MS -- LSW; TN -- MSW or Counselor
  • Preferred/Desired
  • MS -- prefer LMSW or LCSW; TN -- prefer LMSW or LCSW

Training

Minimum Required

Preferred/Desired

Special Skills

  • Minimum Required
  • Advanced communication, conflict management, organizational and planning skills. Basic computer literacy skills.

Preferred/Desired

  • Licensure
  • LSW for MS; MSW for TN; For Rehab, CARF Certification, must have a masters degree

Minimum Required

  • Preferred/Desired
  • Lmsw;lcsw

Requirements

Requires a Master's degree in Social Work or Counseling with appropriate licensure (LSW, LMSW, or LCSW). Minimum of 1 year of experience in a medical or clinical setting is required.

  • postgraduate degree
  • Communication
  • Organizational Skills
  • Computer Literacy
  • Conflict Management
  • Psychosocial Assessment
  • Discharge Planning
  • Planning Skills
  • Supportive Counseling

Posting details

Employment type
Full Time
Work arrangement
On Site
Experience
2-5 yrs
Location
Collierville, Tennessee
Posted
Jul 23, 2026
Application
Employer website
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Hiring organization

Baptist

Baptist Memorial Health Care is one of the country’s largest not-for-profit health care systems and the largest provider of Medicaid in the region. Baptist offers a full continuum of care to communities throughout the Mid-South and consistently ranks among the top integrated...

Salary listed on 3 jobs
IndustryHospitals and Health Care
TypeNonprofit
Size10,001+ employees
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