Chaplain I, Hospice - Per Diem

Kaiser Permanente • Santa Clara, CA

112d

About The Position

In addition to the responsibilities listed below, this role is also responsible for fostering relationships with patients, their families and loved ones, and staff related to a patients terminal illness in a home or community; guiding the completion of patient documentation and fulfillment of physician orders (e.g., tracking home visit frequencies) with respect to hospice regulatory compliance; driving the provision of both individual and group-level spiritual counseling services focusing on end-of-life in home and community settings, ensuring complex cases are solved; and providing non-RN pain assessments and recommending appropriate interventions (e.g., breathing techniques, guided meditation) to comfort patients, their families and loved ones, and staff.

Requirements

• Masters degree in Divinity, Theology or related field from an accredited university.
• Minimum two (2) years of pastoral care experience in a Hospital, Clinic, Ambulatory, Home Health/Palliative Care, or Hospice setting.

Responsibilities

• Promotes learning in others by proactively providing and/or developing information, resources, advice, and expertise with coworkers and members.
• Builds relationships with cross-functional/external stakeholders and customers.
• Listens to, seeks, and addresses performance feedback; proactively provides actionable feedback to others and to managers.
• Pursues self-development; creates and executes plans to capitalize on strengths and develop weaknesses.
• Leads by influencing others through technical explanations and examples and provides options and recommendations.
• Adopts new responsibilities; adapts to and learns from change, challenges, and feedback.
• Demonstrates flexibility in approaches to work; champions change and helps others adapt to new tasks and processes.
• Facilitates team collaboration to support a business outcome.
• Completes work assignments autonomously and supports business-specific projects by applying expertise in subject area and business knowledge to generate creative solutions.
• Encourages team members to adapt to and follow all procedures and policies.
• Collaborates cross-functionally and/or externally to achieve effective business decisions.
• Provides recommendations and solves complex problems; escalates high-priority issues or risks, as appropriate.
• Monitors progress and results.
• Supports the development of work plans to meet business priorities and deadlines.
• Identifies resources to accomplish priorities and deadlines.
• Identifies, speaks up, and capitalizes on improvement opportunities across teams.
• Uses influence to guide others and engages stakeholders to achieve appropriate solutions.
• Contributes to collaborative efforts in spiritual care by recognizing the need for an interdisciplinary team.
• Consults services and departments and collaborates across the continuum of care.
• Collaborates with relevant external spiritual care programs and diverse spiritual leaders.
• Provides patient, loved ones, and staff counseling services by applying diverse spiritual care assessment models.
• Recommends appropriate spiritual counseling services and/or care interventions.
• Leverages crisis intervention methods and techniques to help patients, loved ones, and staff experiencing a crisis event.
• Helps to triage existential and spiritual counseling and creates appropriate care plans.
• Demonstrates sensitivity, respect, and compassion.
• Provides during and after end-of-life support and counseling to patients, loved ones, and staff.
• Documents spiritual assessments and interventions in the patient care record.
• Follows established charting methodologies in accordance with policies and procedures.
• Role models cultural sensitivity when interacting with patients, their families and loved ones, and team members.
• Identifies and/or tends to spiritual or religious needs including providing supportive counseling.
• Provides spiritual resources to patients, loved ones, and staff.
• Evaluates the quality and satisfaction of spiritual care services.

What This Job Offers

• Industry: Ambulatory Health Care Services
• Education Level: Master's degree