What are the responsibilities and job description for the Grief Support Specialist position at KANSAS CITY HOSPICE INC?
Grief Support Specialist
We live our mission. Join the team that’s offering expert care, peace of mind, comfort, guidance, and hope to patients with serious illness and grief around Kansas City. At Kansas City Hospice and Palliative care, we work together – one team, one vision, that each person in our community is valued from life through death and each family is supported in their grief.
Kansas City Hospice and Palliative Care, the largest non-profit hospice agency in Kansas City with over 40 years of experience, believes our care model provides the best possible service to our patients and their families.
We Strive to be the Best Place to Work:
- We offer generous and competitive wages and benefits!
- We support a work-life balance that allows you to contribute to high quality service while maintaining a good work life balance
- A work environment defined by openness, communication, good humor, mutual support and accountability
- A team striving for quality in all we do and continually seeking opportunities to improve
Position Description:
Grief Support Specialist reports to the Director of Grief Programs. This position is responsible for duties which support the services at Solace House to include in person and telephone communication with the public, grief support, group management, and administrative billing services.
The Ideal Candidate Will Possess the Following Requirements:
- Experience supporting children and adults in a service agency or private practice.
- Knowledge of grief support theories and best practices.
- Master’s degree in counseling, social work preferred
- Ability to calmly communicate with individuals who are under stress or in crisis
- Good oral, written and interpersonal communication skills.
- Ability to coordinate multiple tasks concurrently.
- Knowledge of Google docs, sheets, Microsoft Office, Word, Excel helpful. IT competent.
- Good phone and public communication etiquette.
Our Benefit Offerings Include:
Insurance: Health, Dental, Vision, Life and Accidental Death and Dismemberment, Voluntary Life, Short and Long Term Disability, Accident and Critical Illness, Pre-Paid Legal and Identity Theft, Pet Insurance
Time Off: Generous PTO accrual program, Generous Bereavement Leave, Parental Leave, Personal Day
Tuition Assistance and Reimbursement Programs:
- Tuition Assistance
- Additionally 2-Year Loan Assistance Agreement
- Federal Student Loan (Perkins Loan) Forgiveness: As a Benefit of working at Kansas City Hospice and Palliative Care, a qualified employer non-profit organization, you may be eligible for student loan forgiveness. Contact your lender for additional information.
- Career Growth and Annual Scholarship opportunities including Certified Hospice Palliative Nurse (CHPN) reimbursement, Company paid CEU’s and ongoing training
And More!!!: Company Paid Employee Assistance Program offering 10 sessions per year, per event, Smart Shopper Healthcare Consumer Savings Program, Flexible Spending Account, Mileage Reimbursement, 403b Retirement Savings Plan and Company Match, Wellness Plan Discounts to include monthly incentives for participation and discounted gym memberships, Free Monthly Online Yoga Class, Generous Employee Referral Program
** All benefits are available to regular full-time employees hired to work 60 hours or more per pay period, benefits offered differ for PT employees
Kansas City Hospice and Palliative Care is an equal-opportunity, drug-free employer committed to diversity in the workplace. We don’t just accept differences—we celebrate them, we support them, and we thrive on them for the benefit of our employees, our patients, and our community. Our diversity defines us. It binds us. It makes us great.
