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About The Position

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree with training in pastoral care.
• One year of experience in pastoral care, including counseling the dying and the grieving.

Responsibilities

• Assess, implement, and supervise spiritual care in keeping with patients’ and families’ belief systems.
• Develop individual spiritual care plans in collaboration with local clergy and provide support and resources to community spiritual counselors.
• Provide spiritual consultation to clients and staff, and spiritual care to patients and families at the time of death or funeral.
• Collaborate with the Hospice Interdisciplinary Team to assess and meet patients’ and families’ spiritual needs.
• Provide care consistent with the physician’s plan of treatment and document care in the clinical record.
• Design bereavement programs and services and consult with the Hospice Interdisciplinary Team about grieving family members’ and significant others’ needs.
• Develop bereavement care plans for clients receiving bereavement volunteer services and coordinate follow-up by volunteers and team members.
• Train and oversee volunteers in grief and bereavement; provide direct bereavement counseling to families and counsel hospice staff grieving a patient’s death.
• Maintain records of bereavement activities and oversee volunteer facilitators of bereavement groups.
• Plan, implement, and coordinate bereavement support groups for different client populations, and develop educational programs on loss, grief, and related topics.
• Develop, coordinate, and evaluate the annual plan for Spiritual and Bereavement volunteer resources.
• Recruit, interview, orient, train, assign, supervise, instruct, guide, and evaluate Spiritual and Bereavement volunteers.
• Establish procedures and develop programs or in-services for Spiritual and Bereavement volunteer activities.
• Review, audit, compile, and maintain volunteer records, including training and service data, for regulatory compliance.
• Schedule meetings with volunteers to provide support, assess service effectiveness and gaps, and serve as the volunteer liaison to the interdisciplinary team.
• Network with community bereavement services and develop and coordinate bereavement group events; develop bereavement library resources.
• Adhere to agency quality assurance standards and compile required service and statistical records.
• Attend the MSW-facilitated hospice support group.
• Collaborate with community partners to recruit, train, and assign volunteers in community settings.
• Facilitate communication among agency staff, volunteers, and families; educate the community about hospice and the Spiritual/Bereavement Volunteer Programs; and represent the program at internal and external meetings.
• Collaborate with the public affairs department on ongoing community relations programs.

Benefits

• Competitive benefits program designed to support work/life balance.