What are the responsibilities and job description for the Chaplain (Casual) position at NemoursCareerSite?
Essential functions:
- Provide Spiritual comfort to patients and families by visiting patients on a regular basis offering spiritual direction, counseling, sacraments and prayer as requested.
- Communicate and demonstrate an awareness and acceptance of providing appropriate spiritual care for patient, families, and employees from a variety of religious traditions.
- Assess spiritual needs of patient and family
- Assist the family in using their faith in dealing with illness, trauma, and/or death.
- Communicate with nurse and other health care professionals caring for patient and family.
- Provide grief and bereavement support during end of life for patient, family and staff and support staff in the coordination and offering of appropriate rituals and/or bereavement resources with other members of the care team.
- When on-call, respond to on-call events and requests for service within 5 minutes of receiving page and remain within a 30 minute drive of hospital.
- Provide spiritual support to all clinical providers in the hospital.
- Coordinate with Pastoral Care staff and volunteers to schedule and ensure coverage during week days, weekend days (as determined by the department) and serve as an on-call chaplain.
- Foster relations with community clergy and religious leaders.
- Serve as an active member of medical team.
- Attend to the hospital chapel, maintain a safe / receptive environment and ensure that appropriate materials are available.
- Lead the effort to implement a Critical Incident Stress De-briefing program for staff as requested.
- Assure documentation of all visits in patient chart.
- Adhere to all hospital standards, policies and procedures and assure regulatory compliance.
- Participate in Departmental and interdepartmental staff meetings to foster collegiality.
- Keep records of pastoral activity to communicate with other members of the department.
Certified or certification eligible by a national pastoral care or counseling certification body preferred. |