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Overview
Bereavement counsellors support patients, families and communities after a death, including in urgent situations, hospice settings and memorial-service contexts.
In job descriptions, look for grief counselling, active listening, crisis support, trauma awareness, client-centred counselling, social-service records, professional collaboration and training of other staff.
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Search jobsWhat the work can involve
Work can happen in hospice settings, social services, emergency support, family meetings or memorial contexts where people need calm guidance after a death.
Skills and specializations
Useful strengths include grief counselling, active listening, crisis response, trauma awareness, cultural sensitivity, client-centred methods, social-service records and professional collaboration with care or community teams.
Salary context
Salary context depends on service setting, crisis availability, case complexity, supervision duties, training responsibilities, documentation load and whether the role supports families, staff or wider communities.
Career paths
Paths can move from social counselling, care support or community work into grief specialisation, trauma support, hospice services, family counselling, training or coordination of bereavement programmes.
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Check adverts for client groups, crisis work, hospice or memorial duties, record keeping, supervision, collaboration with healthcare or social services and whether training other professionals is expected.
Editorial note
This guide gives editorial career context for bereavement counsellor work. It is not official labour-market statistics or salary data.
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Other social work activities without accommodation n.e.c.
This is one example. Other occupations in this activity include social counsellor, drug and alcohol addiction counsellor and family planning counsellor.
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Alternative labels
bereavement social counsellor
family bereavement counsellor
bereavement advice counsellor
family and bereavement support officer
bereavement support worker
adult bereavement counsellor
bereavement service coordinator
bereavement support counsellor
bereavement counselor
bereavement officer
community bereavement support officer
Occupation group
social counsellor (2635.1)
Source facts
| ESCO URI | http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/f7f8c077-26ec-455f-8311-aeafbc24d9a5 |
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| ESCO code | 2635.1.1 |
| ISCO group | 2635 |
| Concept type | Occupation |