Pastoral Counselor (Chaplin, Hospice, Spiritual, CPE) - HomeCare

Hartford Healthcare•Watertown, CT

6d•Onsite

About The Position

Develops, implements, and coordinates the Pastoral and Bereavement Program. Responsible for planning, organizing, and directing the Hospice Pastoral Program, Spiritual Volunteer program, and Spiritual volunteer activities. Provides professional spiritual services in accordance with the needs of hospice patients, families, staff, and volunteers. Assesses, implements, and supervises spiritual care in keeping with the patient/family's belief system. Develops individual spiritual care plans in collaboration with local clergy and provides support and resources to patient/family's spiritual counselors in the community. Provides religious/spiritual consultation to clients and staff, and spiritual care to patients/families at the time of death or funeral. Collaborates with the Hospice Interdisciplinary Team in assessing and meeting patient/family's spiritual needs, providing care consistent with the physician's plan of treatment, and documenting care in the clinical record. Designs bereavement programs and services, consults with the Hospice Interdisciplinary Team regarding bereavement needs, and develops bereavement care plans. Coordinates bereavement follow-up by volunteers and Interdisciplinary Team members, trains and oversees volunteers in grief and bereavement, and maintains a system for recording bereavement activities. Provides direct bereavement counseling to families, coordinates bereavement volunteer activities with hospice volunteer activities, and develops educational programs for the Interdisciplinary Team and family members on loss, grief, and related topics. Counsels hospice staff who are grieving the loss of a patient, oversees volunteer facilitators of bereavement groups, and plans, implements, and coordinates bereavement support groups. Develops, coordinates, and evaluates the annual plan for Spiritual and Bereavement volunteer resources, including recruitment, interviewing, orientation, training, assignment, and evaluation of volunteers. Supervises, instructs, and provides guidance to volunteers, establishes procedures for volunteer activities, and develops and implements programs/in-services for volunteer participation. Reviews/audits, compiles, and maintains volunteer records, schedules meetings with volunteers for support and to ensure effectiveness, identifies needs and gaps in service, and acts as a volunteer liaison. Networks with community bereavement services, develops and coordinates bereavement group events, and develops bereavement library resources. Adheres to the agency's quality assurance program and compiles required service and statistical records. Attends MSW facilitated hospice support groups. Collaborates with community partners in recruitment, training, and assignment of volunteers. Facilitates communication with agency staff, volunteers, and families. Educates the community about the Hospice and Spiritual/Bereavement Volunteer Programs and represents the program at meetings. Participates in the performance improvement process known as H3W. Performs other duties as required.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree with training in pastoral care
One year experience in pastoral care
Experience in counseling the dying and the grieving

Responsibilities

Assesses, implements, and supervises spiritual care in keeping with patient/family's Beliefs system
Develops individual spiritual care plans, which demonstrate an effort to work in close collaboration with local clergy
Provides support and resources to patient/family's spiritual counselors in the community
Provides religious/spiritual consultation to clients and staff and spiritual care to patient/family at the time of death or funeral
Collaborates with the Hospice Interdisciplinary Team in assessing and meeting patient/family's spiritual needs
Provides care consistent with the physician's plan of treatment and documents care in the clinical record
Designs bereavement programs and services
Consults with Hospice Interdisciplinary Team regarding the bereavement needs of grieving family members and significant others
Develops bereavement care plans for each client receiving bereavement volunteer services
Coordinates bereavement follow-up by volunteers and Interdisciplinary Team members
Trains and oversees volunteers in the areas of grief and bereavement
Maintains a system for the recording of bereavement activities in clients' records
Provides direct bereavement counseling to families
Coordinates bereavement volunteer activities with hospice volunteer activities
Develops educational programs for Interdisciplinary Team and family members on loss, grief and related topics
Counsels hospice staff who are grieving the loss of a patient
Oversees volunteer facilitators of bereavement groups
Plans, implements, and coordinates bereavement support groups to meet the needs of various client populations
Develops, coordinates and evaluates annual plan for Spiritual and Bereavement volunteer resources
Recruits, interviews, orients, trains, assigns and evaluates Spiritual and Bereavement volunteers
Supervises, instructs, and provides guidance to Spiritual and Bereavement volunteers in the performance of their duties
Establishes procedures in relation to Spiritual and Bereavement volunteer activities and area of responsibility
Develops and implements programs/in-services for Spiritual and Bereavement volunteer participation
Reviews/audits, compiles and maintains Spiritual and bereavement volunteer records which include training and service data for compliance with regulations
Schedules meetings with Spiritual and Bereavement volunteers to provide support; ensures effectiveness of service; identifies needs and gaps in service; acts as Spiritual and Bereavement volunteer liaison member of interdisciplinary team
Networks with community bereavement services and develops and coordinates bereavement group events
Develops bereavement library resources
Adheres to the standards of the Agency's quality assurance program
Compiles required service and statistical records
Attendance at MSW facilitated hospice support group
Collaborates with community partners in recruitment, training and assignment of Spiritual and bereavement volunteers into those settings
Facilitates communications with Agency staff, Spiritual and bereavement volunteers and families
Educates the community about the Hospice and Spiritual/Bereavement Volunteer Programs; represents the Spiritual/Bereavement Volunteer Program at internal and external meetings
Collaborates with public affairs department regarding ongoing community relations programs
Actively participates in the performance improvement process known as H3W
Performs other duties as required