Grief Counsellor - Transplant Unit

Role & responsibilities

• Provide grief and bereavement counselling to patients, donors, recipients, and their families within the Transplant Unit.
• Support families coping with loss, death, uncertainty, anxiety, and emotional distress during the transplant journey.
• Provide psychosocial and emotional support to transplant recipients and living donors before and after transplantation.
• Offer sensitive counselling and emotional support to families of deceased donors, where applicable.
• Assess patients and families for grief-related, emotional, and psychosocial concerns and provide appropriate counselling interventions.
• Identify individuals requiring specialized psychological or psychiatric support and facilitate timely referrals.
• Conduct individual and family counselling sessions and provide follow-up support as required.
• Educate patients and families about the grieving process, coping strategies, emotional wellbeing, and available support systems.
• Maintain accurate, confidential, and timely counselling records and documentation in accordance with hospital protocols.
• Work closely with transplant physicians, transplant coordinators, nurses, psychologists, social workers, and other multidisciplinary team members.
• Participate in multidisciplinary meetings and contribute relevant psychosocial and counselling-related observations.
• Handle emotionally sensitive conversations with empathy, patience, professionalism, and cultural sensitivity.
• Maintain strict confidentiality, professional boundaries, and ethical standards while interacting with patients and families.
• Conduct or support grief support groups, awareness programmes, and psychosocial support activities as required.
• Qualification & Experience: Bachelors/Master’s degree in Psychology, Counselling Psychology, Social Work, or a related field, with a recognized Grief Counselling/Bereavement Counselling certification and 1–2 years of relevant work experience, preferably in a hospital, transplant, palliative care, oncology, critical care, hospice, or bereavement-care setting.