Hospice Chaplain

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

Essential Job Functions / 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 the 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 conference 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.
• Works with staff to provide bereavement to 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.

Position Qualifications