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Current Opportunities
If you are a trained professional who seeks employment in a caring and compassionate environment, with others who are passionate about their work, Hospice Calgary may be right for you.
Counsellor, Children’s Grief Centre
Option of 0.6 or 1.0 FTE
The Children’s Grief Centre is expanding our team! We are seeking experienced and skilled counsellors to join our clinical team to provide short and long-term grief and trauma-focused counselling to children, teens, and their families who are grieving a sudden or expected death.
The counsellor should have a strong understanding of child and adolescent development in conceptualisation and practice and a minimum of 3-5 years of clinical counselling experience.
Valid driver’s license with own transportation required.
Learn more about this position:
Applications will be accepted until a suitable candidate is found. Only qualified applicants will be contacted. Please submit your resume and cover letter, attention to Shanna Shepherd, Director of the Children’s Grief Centre, to hiring@hospicecalgary.ca.
Program Director
Children’s Grief Centre & Osten-Victor Living with Advanced Illness Centre
Permanent Position, 1.0 FTE
The Program Director provides strategic and operational leadership across Hospice Calgary’s Children’s Grief Centre (CGC) and Osten-Victor Living with Advanced Illness Centre (LAIC). This role is responsible for shaping a unified, high-performing program portfolio that honours the unique identity of each Centre while fostering a shared culture grounded in collaboration, compassion, and excellence.
All counsellors, program coordinators and intake workers report directly to the Program Director as their primary manager. The Program Director is accountable for all people management functions: hiring, onboarding, performance management, coaching, professional development, HR processes, workload planning, conduct, and overall team wellbeing.
Required: Master’s Degree in the Human Services Field, Non-Profit Management, Health Administration, or a related discipline, preferred. Minimum 7 years of progressive leadership experience in a health, social services, or nonprofit setting, with at least 3 years in a senior program management or director-level role.
For Complete Job Description and Qualifications:
Applications will be accepted until a suitable candidate is found. Only qualified applicants will be contacted. Please submit your resume and cover letter with attention to Robyn Romano, Executive Director, to: hiring@hospicecalgary.ca.
Child & Family Counsellor, Osten-Victor Living with Advanced Illness Centre
Permanent Position, 0.6 FTE
Are you passionate about client and family-centered care? Are you an experienced counsellor guided by compassion and flexible to meet the needs of your clients in various locations?
The counsellor provides psychosocial grief counselling support utilizing a strong skillset of therapeutic modalities to support children, teens, young adults, and families faced with an advanced illness, through to end-of-life and death.
Minimum of 2 years counselling experience working with children, teens, and families. Preferably with grief and loss experience.
For Complete Job Description and Qualifications:
Applications will be accepted until a suitable candidate is found. Only qualified applicants will be contacted. Please submit your resume and cover letter with attention to Robyn Romano, Executive Director, to hiring@hospicecalgary.ca.
Practicums
Hospice Calgary, through its Children’s Grief Centre, offers a high quality, well-established, and supportive practicum program for students in their last year of a post graduate counselling degree.
Counselling Practicum for Masters Students
Thank you for your interest in participating in a practicum opportunity with the Children’s Grief Centre. The next opportunity to join our practicum program will be for the 2026-2027 academic year. Our website will have information on when and how to apply in the first months of 2026.
