Hospice Chaplain Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• Experience working with death and dying and with individuals and families or caregivers.

Nice To Haves

• Graduate of an accredited seminary or school of theology, with a BD, MDiv, or equivalent theological degree preferred.
• One unit of Clinical Pastoral Education (C.P.E.) preferred.

Responsibilities

• Ensure timely spiritual assessments of hospice patients and families or caregivers and provide appropriate services.
• Ensure timely initial and ongoing bereavement assessments and implement individualized bereavement plans of care.
• Participate in comprehensive assessments and help develop individualized plans of care addressing identified spiritual needs.
• Provide direct spiritual care to patients and families or caregivers.
• Provide emotional, psychosocial, and spiritual bereavement counseling before and after a patient’s death, supporting grief, loss, and adjustment.
• Serve as a liaison and source of support to community chaplains and spiritual counselors.
• Facilitate visits by community chaplains, spiritual counselors, local clergy, and others as needed to support patients’ spiritual needs.
• Maintain records of spiritual-care service utilization and related activities for quality assurance, program development, and policy and procedure review and revision.
• Document direct services and ongoing communication with community chaplains and spiritual counselors.
• Attend patient-care conferences and interdisciplinary group meetings as a member of the interdisciplinary group.
• Provide consultation, education, and support to the interdisciplinary group regarding spiritual care.
• Recruit community chaplains, spiritual counselors, and spiritual-care volunteers to meet patient and family or caregiver needs through community contacts and hospice education for congregations.
• Participate in quality assessment and performance improvement teams and activities.
• Provide funeral or memorial services for patients upon request.
• Plan periodic memorial services for personnel, volunteers, and community clergy or spiritual counselors working with the hospice team.
• Assist in supervising spiritual-care volunteers assigned to patients or families and caregivers.