Grief Programs Team Lead

GRIEF SUPPORT TEAM LEAD 

We invite you to take a bold step with us. Join the team that’s offering expert care, peace of mind, comfort, guidance, and hope to people affected by serious illness or grief around Kansas City.  At Kansas City Hospice & 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.

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 improvePosition Description:

The Grief Programs Team Lead provides individual and family therapy to clients seeking counseling for grief, traumatic grief issues, and adjustment to serious illness. This position is responsible for duties which support the services of grief programming to include triaging cases to other team members, training, resolving billing issues, as well as providing assistance and support to the Director of Grief Programs. The Grief Programs Team Lead also has responsibility for leadership and management of their service area, ensuring excellence in service and quality of care.

Required Knowledge, Skills and Experience

• Master’s degree in Social Work or Professional Counseling, eligible for independent credentialing for billing and payment of services, required. 
• Motivation to work with the dying and bereaved, required. 
• Minimum two (2) years post Master’s professional experience in Social Work or Counseling required. 
• Prior, relevant experience with grieving clients and current knowledge of grief theory and practice required. 
• Ability to demonstrate clinical judgment and decision making based on knowledge of Social Work or Professional Counseling practices, techniques, and ethics. 
• Ability to take a lead role as part of a team; prior experience managing and coordinating the work of others, preferred. 
• Valid, unencumbered Social Work licensure in Kansas (LSCSW) and Missouri (LCSW) required, may be substituted with Professional Counseling licensure in Kansas (LPC/LCPC) and Missouri (LPC/LCPC). 
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite required; working knowledge of Google Suite, preferred.
• Prior working knowledge of Electronic Medical Systems (EMRs) required; prior experience with Suncoast preferred. 

Our Benefit Offerings Include: Insurance: Medical Insurance HRA, 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, Flexible Spending Account, Mileage Reimbursement, 403b Retirement Savings Plan and Company Match, 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.