HOSPICE CHAPLAIN

About the role

When you join the growing BILH team, you're not just taking a job, you’re making a difference in people’s lives.

More than 35,000 people working together. Nurses, doctors, technicians, therapists, researchers, teachers and more, making a difference in patients' lives. Your skill and compassion can make us even stronger.

As a health care organization, we have a responsibility to do everything in our power to care for and protect our patients, our colleagues and our communities.

Beth Israel Lahey Health requires that all staff be vaccinated against influenza (flu) as a condition of employment.

Responsibilities

• Provides care and counseling including spiritual counseling, crisis ministry, bio-ethics counseling, bereavement pastoral counseling and sacramental ministry.
• Completes psycho spiritual assessment of patient and family.
• Develops psycho spiritual treatment plan with patient, family and hospice interdisciplinary team.
• Assures continuity and accessibility of familiar religious resources and traditional practices to patients and their families.
• Consults with other disciplines and staff on psycho spiritual factors of hospice care.
• Acts as liaison and consultant to area community clergy.
• Provides educational programs for community clergy, community providers and hospice staff.
• Coordinates memorial services sponsored by hospice as directed by the Coordinator of Pastoral Care
• Provides support to hospice staff
• Participates in the Agency Quality Assurance Program.
• Assumes administrative on-call responsibility as needed

It is understood that this is a summary of key job functions and