Pastoral Counselor (Chaplain, CPE) - HomeCare

About the role

Develops, implements and coordinates the Pastoral and Bereavement Program. Responsible for planning, organizing and directing Hospice Pastoral Program, Spiritual Volunteer program and Spiritual volunteer activities.

Responsibilities

• Assesses, implements and supervises spiritual care in keeping with patient/family's Beliefs system
• Develops individual spiritual care plans, which demonstrate an effort to work in close collaboration with local clergy
• Provides support and resources to patient/family's spiritual counselors in the community
• Provides religious/spiritual consultation to clients and staff and spiritual care to patient/family at the time of death or funeral
• Collaborates with the Hospice Interdisciplinary Team in assessing and meeting patient/family's spiritual needs
• Provides care consistent with the physician's plan of treatment and documents care in the clinical record
• Designs bereavement programs and services
• Consults with Hospice Interdisciplinary Team regarding the bereavement needs of grieving family members and significant others
• Develops bereavement care plans for each client receiving bereavement volunteer services
• Coordinates bereavement follow-up by volunteers and Interdisciplinary Team members
• Trains and oversees volunteers in the areas of grief and bereavement
• Maintains a system for the recording of bereavement activities in clients' records
• Provides direct bereavement counseling to families
• Coordinates bereavement volunteer activities with hospice volunteer activities
• Develops educational programs for Interdisciplinary Team and family members on loss, grief and related topics
• Counsels hospice staff who are grieving the loss of a patient
• Oversees volunteer facilitators of bereavement groups
• Plans, implements, and coordinates bereavement support groups to meet the needs of various client populations
• Develops, coordinates and evaluates annual plan for Spiritual and Bereavement volunteer resources
• Recruits, interviews, orients, trains, assigns and evaluates Spiritual and Bereavement volunteers
• Supervises, instructs, and provides guidance to Spiritual and Bereavement volunteers in the performance of their duties
• Establishes procedures in relation to Spiritual and Bereavement volunteer activities and area of responsibility
• Develops and implements programs/in-services for Spiritual and Bereavement volunteer participation
• Reviews/audits, compiles and maintains Spiritual and bereavement volunteer records which include training and service data for compliance with regulations
• Schedules meetings with Spiritual and Bereavement volunteers to provide support; ensures effectiveness of service; identifies needs and gaps in service; acts as Spiritual and Bereavement volunteer liaison member of interdisciplinary team

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor's degree with training in pastoral care
• Experience: One year experience in pastoral care, including experience in counseling the dying and the grieving