Chaplain

VIA Health Partners is an industry leader and top-10 nationally ranked provider of end-of-life care. More importantly, we are proud to be a community-based, not-for-profit hospice and palliative care provider. We have deep community roots, with decades of experience serving ALL patients’ and families’ needs regardless of their ability to pay or their medical complexity. We are a people-first organization whose funds go to serve our mission.

Benefits

• Medical, Vision, and Dental plans through BCBS
• 28 days of Paid Time Off
• Excellent mileage reimbursement rate
• 403b Retirement plan with matching
• Focused programs honoring Veteran patients
• Assistance with achieving Certified Hospice & Palliative Nurse (CHPN)
• Best Orientation and Onboarding program
• Seasoned Hospice leaders guiding your career growth

Responsibilities

• Assumes responsibility for the provision of spiritual care for patients/caregivers.
• Encourages the enhancement of the patient/caregivers spiritual awareness, the clarification of life’s meaning, and the strengthening of wellbeing.
• Invites patients and families to share and explore their beliefs and practices while respecting each person’s unique religious and/or spiritual view and practice.
• Provides prayer, sacraments, religious rites, scripture and other religious literature, funeral planning, education, referrals, as well as requested ceremonies such as funerals and memorial services and other activities that may be implemented as interventions.
• Develops, implements, and evaluates plan of care for patients/caregivers which incorporates therapeutic, preventive, and palliative spiritual care. Evaluates and updates plan of care as goals and objectives are achieved or changed.
• Initiates and maintains a liaison relationship with community spiritual care resources to effectively coordinate multidisciplinary care.
• Consults with the patient, caregivers, physicians, facility staff, and interdisciplinary team when initiating care and when significant changes in care needs occur. Reliably communicates pertinent information to appropriate members of the interdisciplinary team.
• Provides information to enhance continuity to grief care services after the death of a patient.
• Participates in interdisciplinary team conferences (IDT) and special case conferences.
• Provides anticipatory grief services according to plan of care and consults as needed with grief care team regarding anticipatory grief interventions or need for early intervention referral to grief care department.
• Maintains caseload and productivity according to current VIA Health Partners standards.
• Schedules visits in advance based on prioritized judgment of caseload needs.
• Prepares for visits, anticipates care needs, reviews plan of care and patient information, and obtains needed materials and educational resources for patients/caregiver.
• Makes visits to provide needed care. Follows established plan of care, evaluates patient/caregiver responses to determine progress toward goals, and revises plan of care as necessary.
• Provides interventions consistent with the plan of care and performs all interventions required for each visit. Identifies new problems or needs when they occur.
• Facilitates patient and caregiver independence to the extent possible.
• Plans workday to respond to priorities as well as to minimize travel time.
• Actively participates in discipline-specific meetings and works to increase knowledge of evidence-based spiritual care, evolving role of spiritual care provider, diagnosis and treatment of spiritual pain, and other educational topics presented in these meetings.
• Consistently strives to provide care that meets VIA Health Partners’s Exceptional Care/Exceptional Experience standards.
• Ensures accurate, complete, and timely clinical documentation in accordance with VIA Health Partners guidelines.
• Keeps clinical records current by transferring laptop information daily. Completes and submits all clinical documentation per VIA Health Partners clinical documentation guidelines.
• Records time/mileage report logs accurately. Submits activity logs in accordance with VIA Health Partners policy.
• Attends and participates in meetings as assigned.
• Participates actively in process improvement.
• Maintains open lines of communication with supervisor. Keeps supervisor apprised of any complex patient/caregiver issues.
• If assigned to a HART team, may provide memorial services on behalf of assisted living or nursing home staff and/or residents.
• Ensures that VIA Health Partners professional reputation is maintained and projected.
• Assumes responsibility for professional development and staying abreast of current trends in the pastoral counseling field. Incorporates new information and methods into practice.
• If assigned to the Kids Path team, assists as needed with Chameleon’s Journey and other activities.
• Maintains current professional licensure if applicable.
• If in dual role of chaplain/grief care, provides grief care services for survivors after the death of a loved one in accordance with the provisions of the grief counselor job description.
• May perform other duties as required.

Qualifications

• A Master’s Degree in Divinity from an accredited seminary and at least two units of Basic Clinical Pastoral Education required, with additional units preferred.
• Clinical experience in the area of death and dying required, preferably in Clinical Pastoral Education, with a thorough understanding of Hospice care.
• A minimum of two years related experience and ordination or specific endorsement by a recognized religious body is required.
• Three years of experience in a community of faith or health care chaplaincy position and board certification/eligibility preferred.
• Basic computer skills, using Microsoft Office.