Chaplain, Hospice & Palliative Care (20hrs, Days)

About the role

To directly provide and coordinate the provision of chaplain services for hospice and palliative care patients and families consistent with hospice and palliative care regulations and standards of practice. To integrate spiritual care and support in the work of the interdisciplinary team. To ensure hospice and palliative care patients and families receive spiritual support, comfort, and guidance while facing serious and terminal illnesses, consistent with their spiritual traditions, preferences, and values.

Responsibilities

• Directly provide spiritual support and counseling services through home visits, long-term care facility visits, hospital visits, clinic visits, telephone calls, and virtual visits performing both individual and group counseling.
• Assure the assessment of the spiritual needs, issues, and concerns of hospice and palliative care patients and families. Ensure assessments are clearly documented, appropriate interventions planned, implemented, and evaluated for effectiveness.
• Participate with the interdisciplinary team in a manner that results in effective, collaborative care planning.
• Coordinate the provision of spiritual care to seriously and terminally ill patients and their families utilizing personal, community, and volunteer resources.
• Assure staff and volunteer competency in the role of spiritual care within the interdisciplinary team and how to perform spiritual screening of patients and families.
• Provide and facilitate the training and education of staff and volunteers through departmental and community resources.
• Oversee the development and coordination of spiritual care resources including literature, support groups, mentors/consultants, community resources, educational presentations, rituals, program events including memorial services, and alternative care.
• Measure and monitor the quantity and quality of spiritual care services provided, including patient and family satisfaction, outcomes, and utilization of services.
• Develop and implement performance improvement measures to meet patient and program goals.
• Provide bereavement support to surviving bereaved after a patient dies, including phone support, in-home or care facility visitations, bereavement support groups, and assisting with memorial or funeral services when requested by family as scheduling allows.
• Assure professional competency through maintaining working knowledge of current regulations and standards of practice related to hospice, palliative care, and chaplaincy in a medical setting.
• Perform other duties as requested.

Requirements

• Minimum two (2) years of experience providing spiritual care services in a health care setting.
• Minimum one (1) year of professional experience providing services to patients with serious or terminal illnesses.
• Master’s degree in theology, divinity, pastoral care, philosophy, or related discipline.
• Completion of at least four units of Clinical Pastoral Education Program (CPE).
• Driver’s License (from any state) required at hire.
• Basic Life Support required at hire.

Skills

• Thorough knowledge of the spiritual, emotional, and general care needs of patients and their families at the end of life.
• Proficiency in the delivery of emotional, spiritual, grief counseling, and support group services with individuals and groups at the end of life and in the grief process.
• Customer-focused service skills.
• Skill in leading groups and teams.
• Skill in public speaking.
• Ability to participate collaboratively within an interdisciplinary team.
• Well-developed peer mentoring and development skills.
• Ability to assist and mentor clinicians and volunteers in the provision of emotional/spiritual support in their daily practice.
• Excellent listening and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to document assessments, care delivered, and to coordinate both clearly and concisely using a laptop computer.
• Ability to provide quality counseling services for patients/families at end of life with respect and sensitivity to individual beliefs, coping mechanisms, and goals.
• Excellent time management skills.
• Ability to meet department visit productivity requirements.
• Ability to document clinical care clearly and concisely in an electronic medical record.

Preferred Qualifications

• Minimum three (3) years of service within a health care setting as a chaplain, especially within a hospice or palliative care setting.
• Minimum two (2) years of working as a member of an interdisciplinary team.
• Board certified Pastoral Counselor.

Pay

$33.98 - $45.72 / year

Schedule

• Scheduled Weekly Hours: 20
• Shift: Day
• Workdays: Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri
• Working Hours Start: 08:00 AM
• Working Hours End: 04:30 PM
• Job Schedule: Part-time
• Travel: Yes, 100% of the Time