Hospice Chaplain

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Chaplain

Schedule: Monday-Friday 9:00am - 9:30pm, with on-call requirements.

Service Area: Hardin, Meade, Breckinridge, Grayson, and LaRue

Chaplain Position Summary: As a member of the interdisciplinary team, the Chaplain provides spiritual care services to patients and families as assigned. Services include assessment, emotional support, and spiritual care related to theological and belief issues, relationship issues, existential and meaning issues and spiritual suffering at the end of life.

Chaplain Position Duties & Responsibilities:

• Conducts spiritual assessment in the context of social, environmental and behavioral factors of patient and family.
• Provides individual and family pastoral/spiritual counseling in coping with serious illness and end of life issues.
• Educates and supports patient/family in end-of-life choices and issues by assisting with funeral planning and conducting funeral/memorial services as needed.
• Demonstrates knowledge of pastoral/spiritual care including application of medical ethics as indicated.
• Demonstrates clinical skills in engaging with patients and families in a meaningful, therapeutic, pastoral relationship.
• Provides bereavement follow up after death as indicated.
• Demonstrates effective communication, relationship building skills, and coordination of service delivery with team members and Hosparus Health staff to achieve quality outcomes for shared caseload.
• Participates in development of interdisciplinary plan of care and evaluation of progress towards goals and interventions and facilitates patient and family participation in plan of care that addresses spiritual care.
• Responds to spiritual and emotional needs of staff and team members.
• Participates in on-call services and/or responds to requests for spiritual/emotional support outside normal business hours.
• Provides supervision and coaching to volunteers providing faith tradition support, as assigned.
• Supervises interns/students, as assigned.
• Acts as a professional mentor/role model.
• Documents contacts with/on behalf of patients and families that are concise and reflect assessment, planning, interventions, evaluation and closure and according to timeliness standards.
• Submits all other required/requested documents within a timely manner.
• Reflects productive and efficient practice in daily work, according to departmental goals and expectations.
• Provides leadership and assists in annual memorial services.
• Serves as professional resource for pastoral care or related issues.
• Demonstrates effective communication and relationship building skills with community religious/spiritual leaders.
• Provides community education and outreach activities upon request.

Chaplain Position Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in spiritual area of study from accredited school or seminary (i.e. Divinity, Religious Studies, Theology). Graduate degree from accredited seminary or school of theology preferred.
• 1 CPE (Clinical Pastoral Education) unit required, or a commitment to obtain within 18 months.
• Experience in organizing and providing pastoral/spiritual care to individuals and families.
• Ability to work cohesively with community clergy from variety of denominational backgrounds and faith traditions.
• Ability to work collaboratively with members of the interdisciplinary team.
• Endorsed by ecclesiastical group or eligible for endorsement.
• Valid driver’s license required.

• Use of technology-based tools, including electronic medical record, strongly preferred.

Hosparus Health provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.