PRN Hospice Chaplain

Reports To: Director of Clinical Services

About Luminary Hospice

At Luminary Hospice, we are a mission‑driven organization that empowers our team members to shape our culture in order to allow them to provide the highest quality support to patients and families throughout their entire end‑of‑life journey. Our mission is to deliver personalized care that radiates compassion and preserves dignity for all that we are honored to serve on their end‑of‑life journey. We are centered on caring for the whole person – with expert medical care, pain management as well as emotional and spiritual support along with resources, information, and emotional support for families and caregivers.

About the role

The PRN Chaplain is responsible for the provision of spiritual care services to patients and families/caregivers of Luminary Hospice, either directly or through coordination of care with other spiritual counselors.

Responsibilities

• Assures spiritual assessment of patients and families/caregivers in the hospice program and appropriate services are rendered in a timely manner.
• Facilitates the development of the individualized plan of care by participating in the comprehensive assessment to meet identified spiritual needs.
• Provides direct spiritual care to patients and families/caregivers.
• Serves as liaison and support to community chaplains and spiritual counselors.
• Maintains records of spiritual care services utilization and related activities for quality assurance, program development, and policies and procedures review and revision.
• Documents direct services and ongoing communication with community chaplains and spiritual counselors.
• Attends patient care conferences and interdisciplinary group meetings as a member of the interdisciplinary group.
• Provides consultation, education, and support to the interdisciplinary group on spiritual care.
• Recruits community chaplains, spiritual counselors, and spiritual care volunteers adequate to meet patient and family/caregiver needs by developing community contacts and offering education through congregations about hospice care.
• Provides for funeral or memorial services for patients as requested.
• Plans periodic memorial services to meet the needs of personnel, volunteers, and community clergy/spiritual counselors working with the hospice team.
• Assists in supervision of spiritual care volunteers when assigned to patients/families/caregivers.
• Actively participates in quality assessment performance improvement teams and activities.
• Accepts and performs other related duties and responsibilities as required.

Qualifications

• Graduate of accredited seminary or school of theology (BD, MDiv or equivalent theological degree).
• Experience working with death and dying, individuals/family/caregiver.
• Ability to work as member of interdisciplinary group.
• Comfort in an interfaith setting.
• Ability to accept different lifestyles, cultures, beliefs, and values.
• Ability to network with community clergy and congregations.
• Knowledge of and commitment to hospice philosophy of care.
• Hospice experience preferred.
• Must be a licensed driver with an automobile that is insured in accordance with state or organization requirements and is in good working order.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit or stand. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.

Benefits

PRN roles are not eligible for benefits.