HOSPICE CHAPLAIN

Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital-Plymouth • Plymouth, MA

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About The Position

When you join the growing BILH team, you're not just taking a job, you're making a difference in people's lives. This position involves providing care and counseling including spiritual counseling, crisis ministry, bio-ethics counseling, bereavement pastoral counseling, and sacramental ministry. The role includes completing psycho-spiritual assessments of patients and families, developing psycho-spiritual treatment plans with patients, families, and the hospice interdisciplinary team, and ensuring continuity and accessibility of familiar religious resources and traditional practices to patients and their families. The position also requires consulting with other disciplines and staff on psycho-spiritual factors of hospice care, acting as a liaison and consultant to area community clergy, providing educational programs for community clergy, community providers, and hospice staff, coordinating memorial services sponsored by hospice, providing support to hospice staff, participating in the Agency Quality Assurance Program, and assuming administrative on-call responsibility as needed.

Requirements

• Master of Divinity, Master of Theology, or Masters in Pastoral Counseling.
• Minimum of four units of Clinical Pastoral Education (C.P.E.), two basic, two advanced or equivalent training through an accredited pastoral counseling program.
• Comprehensive knowledge of hospice counseling practice.
• Excellent written, oral, and presentation skills.
• Demonstrated leadership and customer service approach in a hospice or related setting.

Responsibilities

• Provides care and counseling including spiritual counseling, crisis ministry, bio-ethics counseling, bereavement pastoral counseling, and sacramental ministry.
• Completes psycho-spiritual assessment of patient and family.
• Develops psycho-spiritual treatment plan with patient, family, and hospice interdisciplinary team.
• Assures continuity and accessibility of familiar religious resources and traditional practices to patients and their families.
• Consults with other disciplines and staff on psycho-spiritual factors of hospice care.
• Acts as liaison and consultant to area community clergy.
• Provides educational programs for community clergy, community providers, and hospice staff.
• Coordinates memorial services sponsored by hospice as directed by the Coordinator of Pastoral Care.
• Provides support to hospice staff.
• Participates in the Agency Quality Assurance Program.
• Assumes administrative on-call responsibility as needed.

Benefits

• Comprehensive compensation and benefits.
• Support for achieving a healthy and balanced life.

What This Job Offers

• Industry: Hospitals
• Education Level: Master's degree