Support Families with Compassion as a Bereavement Counsellor

We’re seeking a Bereavement Counsellor (HP3) to join the Metro South Palliative Care Service (MSPCS), delivering compassionate, evidence-based support to individuals and families experiencing loss. Based primarily across Logan, Redland, Corinda and QEII sites, this role offers meaningful work in a multidisciplinary team supporting patients and carers before and after death.

Job details

Your new role:

As a Bereavement Counsellor, you will deliver compassionate counselling and support to adults receiving palliative care and their families, both pre- and post-death. You'll be part of a collaborative, multidisciplinary team providing holistic, patient-centred care.

Key responsibilities include:

• Delivering assessment, therapeutic intervention, counselling, and advocacy
• Supporting families through loss, grief, and adjustment to bereavement
• Contributing to discharge planning, case conferences and care networks
• Providing education and supervision to students and allied health assistants
• Engaging in service improvement and quality activities

About you:

You are an empathetic and skilled professional who thrives in an interprofessional care environment and brings both clinical expertise and human connection to your work.

You will demonstrate:

• Proven ability to deliver high-quality, evidence-based grief and loss counselling
• Strong communication and collaboration skills in multidisciplinary teams
• Commitment to continuous learning and professional development
• Ability to contribute to service improvement and support student education

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What we can offer you:

• We offer a family-friendly work environment that supports you in making the most of Queensland's laid-back lifestyle.
• We are renowned for teaching and research excellence with strong relations with Queensland's leading tertiary institutions.
• We want to empower you to build a long-term career, with countless opportunities to learn and grow, no matter your role
• You'll have all the benefits of working for Queensland's world-class public health system including generous leave entitlements, attractive salary and remuneration packages, salary packaging and access to relevant professional development allowances and/or leave, study and research assistance, corporate discounts and employee wellness programs.

About us:

The Princess Alexandra Hospital (PAH) is a tertiary health care centre providing care in most major adult specialties. We provide world class health care to Brisbane City's southern suburbs across emergency, medical, mental health and surgical services, including liver and kidney transplant.

We are nationally recognised for our expertise in trauma management and organ transplants and are one of Australia's leading academic and research health centres. The PAH as a major medical research precinct hosts Australia's most advanced medical research facility, the Translational Research Institute (TRI) as well as a new Clinical Research Facility for the discoveries made at TRI to be trialed in a safe clinical environment.

We're expanding our hospital to make sure everyone gets the care they need. We're adding more beds, modernising our buildings, and improving our spaces to treat kidney and cancer patients with all new services and facilities planned to open by 2027.

INTEGRITY | COMPASSION | ACCOUNTABILITY | RESPECT | ENGAGEMENT | EXCELLENCE

Our values were created by employees for employees to shape our culture and inspire positive interactions in the workplace. Diversity of ideas, skills, traditions, and customs is celebrated as one of our greatest strengths. Having a workforce that reflects and understands the needs and expectations of our community is important to delivering safe, kinder, and more inclusive care.

We recognise our strength comes from the diversity of our people and so we encourage people of all genders, ethnicities, ages, abilities, languages, sexual orientation, and family responsibilities to apply.

We are better together.

Further information

We are committed to building inclusive cultures in the Queensland public sector that respect and promote human rights and diversity.

Applicants are encouraged to apply online. Please review the Role Description for more information on application process requirements. Agency referrals will not be accepted for this position.

Documents

Before applying for this vacancy please ensure you read the documents below.

• Application essentials - things you need to know (PDF, 691KB)
  Information Package for Applicants
  
  We are MSH - five reasons why you should join us (PDF, 978KB)
  Information Package for Applicants
  
  MS10663156_2 RD_CN (PDF, 669KB)
  Role Description
  
  MS10663156_2 RD_HP (PDF, 851KB)
  Role Description