Hospice Chaplain

Current Opening•Jamestown, ND

24d

About The Position

Provides direct spiritual, pastoral, and bereavement support or counseling to patients, families, hospice staff, and volunteers as needed, while acknowledging and respecting their beliefs, culture, and values concerning life’s meaning, suffering, and loss, and their desire for support. This is a casual position working 4 hours per two-week pay period, Monday through Friday. The posting also lists a broad range of patient-care, household, documentation, and monitoring duties, including personal care, routine treatment procedures, household tasks, assisting nursing staff, taking and recording measurements, maintaining a safe environment, reporting changes in patients’ conditions, contributing to care plans, maintaining patient confidentiality, attending training, handling supplies, completing and auditing charts, and monitoring durable medical equipment. The role requires community visibility and professional relationships with patients, families, visitors, co-workers, and other hospital personnel. Work may involve frequent interruptions, weekends or holidays, hours beyond the normal schedule, or temporary assignment to other positions when necessary. The employee must provide a vehicle for home visits and hold a current, unencumbered North Dakota driver’s license and appropriate automobile insurance. Wage is $22.42 to $30.27, depending on experience.

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 recognizes the chaplain.
At least 2 years of professional work experience.
Attend Crisis Prevention Intervention (CPI) training within the timeframe specified by the department orientation checklist.
Maintain punctual and regular attendance, report as scheduled and prepared to work, and remain for the full scheduled work period.
Demonstrate strong analytical ability to gather and interpret complex data and find solutions to difficult problems.
Use independent judgment based on established policies and procedures.
Maintain effective relationships and tactful communication with co-workers, patients, families, and visitors, including telephone courtesy.
Speak and write English understandably and legibly.
Demonstrate the physical and emotional ability to meet the agreed work schedule and performance standards; handle stress effectively; and perform documentation requiring visual acuity.
Practice aseptic techniques, 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, and speak and hear; occasional lifting or moving of up to 10 pounds is specified in the position description.
Ability to drive an automobile and 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; urine drug screening must be completed within 30 days of hire.
Meet the listed physical and sensory demands, which include continuous visual observation, hand and finger dexterity, reaching, and hearing/listening; frequent standing, walking, sitting, tasting or smelling, and noise exposure; and occasional lifting/carrying/pushing/pulling at the listed weight ranges.
The position is classified as OSHA Category II, with no exposure to blood-borne pathogens specified.

Responsibilities

Provide spiritual, pastoral, and bereavement support or counseling to patients, families, hospice staff, and volunteers as needed.
Provide 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 beds and chairs.
Perform household duties, including meal preparation and, in emergency situations, purchasing groceries, medication, or supplies as necessary.
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 and handle patient-care equipment safely.
Report and, when appropriate, record changes in patients’ conditions or behavior and unusual incidents.
Participate in and contribute to Nursing Care Plans.
Build and maintain interpersonal relationships with patients, visitors, and hospital personnel while protecting confidential patient information.
Attend assigned in-service and education programs to learn treatments, procedures, and developmental skills.
Use supplies and linen carefully and efficiently, avoid waste, and follow established charge procedures for patient charge items.
File patient information on charts as directed and compile new charts.
Document confidential medical reports and data in medical records and audit discharged charts for completeness using established criteria checklists.
Monitor usage of durable medical equipment (DME).
Represent JRMC Hospice visibly in the community and maintain good relationships with co-workers, patients, families, and visitors.
Provide a vehicle for transportation to and from home visits and maintain the required driver’s license and automobile insurance.
Comply with hospital safety requirements, practice aseptic techniques, and observe Standard Precautions.