Hospice Chaplain

About the role

We are seeking an experienced Chaplain to join our hospice interdisciplinary team serving the Ozark, MO area.

Responsibilities

• Provide spiritual support to patients, caregivers, and families facing a terminal illness.
• Work closely with nurses, social workers, CNAs, physicians, and volunteers to provide high quality hospice care.
• Make visits wherever the patient resides---private home, skilled nursing facility, assisted living facility, hospital.
• Complete a spiritual assessment on each assigned patient in a timely manner, and document in the electronic medical record.
• Be open and well-versed in multiple religions, meeting the patient and family where they are in their spiritual journey.
• Must be able to offer spiritual support to various denominations, non-denominations, and those with no belief history/system.
• Must be able to coordinate with other spiritual advisers in the community and in the patient's life.
• Other duties could include offering communion to patients, providing devotional services and/or bereavement services to the nursing facilities we use, officiating memorial services and/or funerals, supporting co-workers through grief and trials in their lives.
• Participate in grief support as needed.

Requirements

• Must be ordained, commissioned or credentialed according to the practices of an organized religious group and has completed one unit of Clinical Pastoral Education, OR a Bachelor's degree with emphasis in counseling or theology.
• Prioritize a Masters Degree in Divinity, Theology, or Spiritual Counseling.
• Training in grief and bereavement counseling, experience with death and dying a plus.
• Computer skills for charting/EMR, basic use of Word, Excel, email.

Qualifications

• Must be able to offer spiritual support to various denominations, non-denominations, and those with no belief history/system.
• Must be able to coordinate with other spiritual advisers in the community and in the patient's life.

Skills

• Must be ordained, commissioned or credentialed according to the practices of an organized religious group and has completed one unit of Clinical Pastoral Education, OR a Bachelor's degree with emphasis in counseling or theology.
• Prioritize a Masters Degree in Divinity, Theology, or Spiritual Counseling.
• Training in grief and bereavement counseling, experience with death and dying a plus.
• Computer skills for charting/EMR, basic use of Word, Excel, email.

Benefits

• Hourly rate with mileage reimbursement and recent increase in mileage company-wide.

Pay

• Hourly rate with mileage reimbursement and recent increase in mileage company-wide.

Schedule

• Work hours are primarily Monday through Friday, 8am to 5pm, with the understanding a crisis can occur at any time.
• Flexibility with scheduling and hours a must.