Chaplain

Monday-Friday

8 : 00 am-5 : 00 pm

Summary & Objective

The Chaplain acts as a community liaison for patients linking them to local parish / congregation / synagogue while providing spiritual counseling in cooperation with the Interdisciplinary Teams plan of care.

Essential Functions

• Assess spiritual factors related to patient care and intervenes appropriately.
• Establishes of a spiritual care plan for patient / families.
• Provide accurate and appropriate documentation and submit daily.
• Coordinates spiritual services within structure of team.
• Insure documentation includes patients religious preference and assistance offered.
• Provides spiritual counseling to meet needs in accordance with the patients and familys acceptance of this service and in a manner consistent with patient and family beliefs and desires.
• Administers sacraments (or arranges for them to be administered) as requested and performs funeral or memorial services upon request by the family.
• Provide spiritual support of patient / family on individual or group basis.
• Makes visits as necessary according to assessed needs within established time frames.
• Provides explanation of spiritual aspects of care to interdisciplinary team members.
• Acts as liaison with professional religious community by making reasonable efforts to arrange for visits of clergy and members of religious organizations in the community to patients who request such visits.
• High comfort level in dealing with terminal illness.
• Demonstrates knowledge of hospice levels of care Medicare and Medicaid Hospice Benefits by providing appropriate documentation when the need arises.
• Develops and assists with educational services in the community.
• Develops supervises and evaluates the annual Hospice Memorial Services.
• Exhibit respect for individual religious preference / practice.
• Exhibit high comfort level in dealing with terminal illness.
• Maintaining the ability to extend hospitality and patience while assisting patients families physicians and peers under stressful circumstances.
• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the position.

Other Duties

Supervisory Responsibility

Physical Requirements

Disclaimer

The job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee. Other duties responsibilities and activities may change or be assigned at any time.

EEOC Statement

CHS 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.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment including recruiting hiring placement promotion termination layoff recall transfer leaves of absence compensation and training.

Requirements

Knowledge & Experience Requirements

Employment Type : Full Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1