Employment
Check below for current job openings with Temple University Hospital’s Victim Advocates Team
Part-time Victim Advocate - Overnight
Trauma Victim Advocates are crisis responders embedded in the hospital 24/7 to support patients and their family members in the immediate aftermath of violence and assist victims and co-victims during the process of physical and emotional recovery. Trauma Victim Advocates also perform a variety of functions in the hospital's emergency department, including: offering comfort to patients in the trauma bay, giving families regular updates about their loved ones' conditions, providing grief support to families of homicide victims, and linking patients and their families to crime victim services. The hours for this position are Saturday and Sunday overnights from 8:00 p.m. to 8:00 a.m.
Trauma Counselor
As a member of TUH's Trauma Victim Advocates program, the Trauma Counselor provides individual and group therapy, crisis intervention counseling, assessments, referrals and follow-up medical advocacy to victims of community violence and their families. These services include assessment, treatment, planning and intervention, appropriate referrals to social services, medical and mental health agencies, and other community resources.