Hospice Chaplain
About The Position
Provides direct spiritual, pastoral, and bereavement support or counseling to patients and families, hospice staff, and volunteers as needed, while acknowledging and respecting their beliefs, culture, and values related to life’s meaning, suffering, loss, and their desire to receive support. This is a casual position working 4 hours per two-week pay period, Monday through Friday. The posting’s listed job functions include personal care, routine treatment procedures, household duties, general care for patients in isolation, assistance with complicated treatment procedures, collecting and recording measurements, maintaining a safe environment, reporting changes in patient condition, contributing to nursing care plans, maintaining interpersonal relationships and confidentiality, attending education programs, managing supplies and patient records, auditing discharged charts, and monitoring durable medical equipment (DME).
Requirements
- Graduate of an accredited seminary or school of theology; or successful completion of four units of Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) or equivalent clinical training and experience; or endorsement and good standing with the denomination or faith group that ordained and recognized the chaplain.
- Two years of professional work experience.
- Attend Crisis Prevention Intervention (CPI) training within the timeframe required by the department orientation checklist.
- Maintain punctual and regular attendance and be prepared to work the scheduled hours.
- Ability to gather and interpret complex data and find solutions to difficult problems.
- Ability to exercise independent judgment based on established policies and procedures.
- Ability to maintain positive relationships with coworkers, patients, families, and visitors; tact and telephone courtesy; and visibility in the community representing JRMC Hospice.
- Able to speak and write English in an understandable and legible manner.
- Physical and emotional ability to meet the agreed work schedule and performance standards; ability to manage stress.
- Visual acuity for documentation duties and the vision abilities needed for close, distance, color, peripheral, and depth perception, and focusing.
- Ability to practice aseptic techniques and observe Standard Precautions, and comply with the Hospital Safety Management program.
- Ability to stand, sit, walk, reach, stoop, kneel, twist, crouch, handle and feel with the hands, speak, and hear; occasional lifting or moving of up to 10 pounds is specified in the physical-effort section.
- Ability to drive an automobile; provide a vehicle for home visits; hold a current, unencumbered North Dakota driver’s license and appropriate automobile insurance.
- Complete a comprehensive background check and drug screening as a condition of employment; complete the required urine drug screening within 30 days of hire.
Responsibilities
- Provide spiritual, pastoral, and bereavement support or counseling to patients, families, hospice staff, and volunteers as needed, respecting their beliefs, culture, and values.
- Perform personal care, including bathing, oral hygiene, hair care, dressing, grooming, linen changes, shaving, skin care, and nail care.
- Perform routine treatment procedures, including positioning, lifting and turning patients, using special equipment, assisting with bedpans, urinals, or commodes, ambulating patients, following physical therapy exercise programs, applying anti-embolism stockings, and transferring patients between bed and chair.
- Perform household duties such as meal preparation and, in emergency situations as necessary, purchasing groceries, medication, or supplies.
- Perform general care activities for patients in isolation and assist staff nurses with complicated treatment procedures.
- Take and record temperature, pulse, respiration, weight, height, blood pressure, and intake/output measurements.
- Help maintain a healthy, clean, and safe environment for patients and staff, and handle patient-care equipment safely.
- Report and, when appropriate, record changes in patients’ condition or behavior and unusual incidents.
- Participate in and contribute to Nursing Care Plans.
- Maintain interpersonal relationships with patients, visitors, and hospital personnel while protecting confidential patient information.
- Attend assigned in-service and education programs.
- Use supplies and linen carefully and efficiently, and follow established charge procedures for patient charge items.
- File patient information on charts as directed by the Patient Accounts Coordinator or staff, compile new charts, and chart confidential medical reports and data in medical records.
- Audit discharged charts for completeness using established criteria checklists.
- Monitor usage of DME.
- Provide a vehicle for transportation to and from home visits and drive as required.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Part-time
Education Level
No Education Listed
