Hospice Chaplain - PRN

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Hospice Chaplain PRN

Our mission is to provide Catholic home hospice care, support, and education that honors the dignity of each person we serve.

Building our loving service in Colorado for nearly 100 years, Dominican Home Health Agency now has a new name and focus: Emmaus Catholic Hospice, a non-profit agency.

Job Summary: Primary function is to address the spiritual and emotional needs and concerns of hospice patients, families, staff, and other caregivers. Serves as a member of the Interdisciplinary Team (IDT).

Job Description

Duties and Responsibilities:

• ·Serve as a member of one or more Interdisciplinary Team (IDT) and attend meetings as needed.
• Providing an assessment of the patient's and family's spiritual needs at admission as assigned and on-going at each patient encounter.
• Providing spiritual counseling to meet these needs in accordance with the patient's and family's acceptance of this service and in a manner consistent with their beliefs and desires.
• Making all reasonable efforts to facilitate visits by local clergy, pastoral counselors, or other individuals who can support the patient's spiritual needs to the best of their ability and coordinating with the patient/family.
• Collaborating with other IDG members in the development of the plan of care.
• Supporting dignity of the dying patient.
• Complete spiritual assessment for patients admitted to Hospice care per regulations and agency policy and develop plan of care.
• Work with staff, clergy, and community groups to enhance their sensitivity to the spiritual concerns of patients/families experiencing terminal illness or loss as needed.
• Participate in patient care conferences by exploring and assessing the spiritual needs of patients/families.
• Maintain contact with community clergy regarding patients' spiritual needs as needed.
• Assist with the provision of bereavement services in accordance with hospice policies and Federal Hospice and State Hospice regulatory requirements.
• Maintain proper documentation of pastoral care visits to patients and their families.
• Perform occasional liturgical assignments such as the annual Service of Remembrance and monthly memorial services with staff.
• Conduct or facilitate funeral or memorial services when requested.
• Collaborate with a resource group of clergy to whom specific aspects of spiritual care may be coordinated.
• Serve in on-call chaplaincy services when requested.
• Assist with providing educational programs for hospice staff, community clergy, religious and lay representatives as appropriate.
• Other duties as assigned by the Director of Clinical Services.
• Provide direct spiritual support and end of life counsel to patients and families in keeping with the spiritual beliefs of the patient and family.
• Responsible for reviewing on-call logs and assure follow-up completed and documented as needed.
• Participates in Quality Assessment Performance Improvement (QAPI) activities as assigned by Administrator.

Qualifications/Education Required:

• Must be a practicing Catholic in good standing with the Church.
• Ordained and endorsed deacon, priest, member of a preferred religious order, or lay person with clinical training in pastoral care.
• Master's degree in theology or equivalent strongly preferred.
• Completion of 4 Units of Clinical Pastoral Education strongly preferred.
• Two (2) years' experience in the spiritual care of terminally ill individuals, hospice experience preferred.
• One (1) year supervisory experience in a health care field preferred. Experience working/coordinating with varied spiritual/religious practices preferred.

ABILITIES, SKILLS, AND KNOWLEDGE:

• Demonstrated ability working with varied spiritual/religious practices.
• Demonstrated ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with all segments of the staff, the Interdisciplinary Team and non-agency persons.
• Demonstrated expertise in coordinating work activities of inter-disciplinary team.
• Excellent oral and written communications skills with proven ability to communicate with clinical and non-clinical users.
• Ability to act as liaison among clinical and non-clinical public.
• Strong interpersonal communication skills; team player.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills with ability to communicate with clinical and nonclinical users.
• Ability to read and interpret physicians' orders and notes from other caregivers as well as respond to them verbally and in writing.
• Ability to effectively present information to clients and employees and community members.
• Ability to respond effectively to the most sensitive inquiries or complaints.
• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
• Ability to use software to create a spreadsheet with minimal instruction.
• Ability to use word processing software for communication and documentation purposes.
• Ability to use independent judgment to manage and impart confidential information.
• Skill to attend to multiple tasks at once which are time sensitive.
• Basic knowledge of Windows operating system and ability to advance computer skills asas required.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with fellow employees and the public.

SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS:

• Pre-employment drug and TB screening. Annual TB screening thereafter.
• Pre-employment background check.
• Proof of current flu vaccination or approved Medical or Religious exemption.
• Possession of a valid state Driver's License with reliable transportation and applicable car insurance.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

• Ability to regularly sit, stand, stoop, bend, kneel, walk, balance, crouch, crawl, push, pull, reach with hands and arms and talk and hear.
• Ability to frequently use hands to finger, handle, or feel.
• Ability to occasionally climb.
• Ability to occasionally use sense of smell.
• Ability to frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move 100 pounds.
• Ability to use close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception.
• Ability to adjust focus.

WORK ENVIRONMENT:

• The employee is frequently exposed to outside weather conditions.
• The work environment is highly variable, as care is provided in residential spaces.
• Lighting, acoustics, air quality, temperature and environmental hazards are not predictable.
• The employee is occasionally exposed to wet and/or humid conditions, household pets/animals, fumes or airborne particles, and toxic or caustic chemicals.
• The noise level in the office work environment is usually moderate.

TRAVEL:

• The employee is required to travel frequently to complete agency business.

COMPENSATION:

• Salary $32 - $35 hourly, commensurate with experience.

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Pay: $32.00 - $35.00 per hour

Expected hours: 12 – 16 per week

Work Location: In person

Salary : $32 - $35