What are the responsibilities and job description for the Full Time Hospice Chaplain position at Agape Hospice?
JOB DESCRIPTION SUMMARY
The Hospice Chaplain is responsible for the provision of spiritual care services to patients and families/caregivers of the Agency, either directly or through coordination of care with other spiritual counselors.
ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS/RESPONSIBILITIES
1. Assures spiritual assessment of patients and families/caregivers in the hospice program and appropriate services are rendered in a timely manner.
2. Facilitates the development of the individualized plan of care by participating in the comprehensive assessment to meet identified spiritual needs.
3. Provides direct spiritual care to patients and families/caregivers.
4. Serves as liaison and support to community chaplains and spiritual counselors.
5. Maintains records of spiritual care services utilization and related activities for quality assurance, program development, and policies and procedures review and revision.
6. Documents direct services and ongoing communication with community chaplains and spiritual counselors.
7. Attends patient care conference and interdisciplinary group meetings as a member of the interdisciplinary group.
8. Provides consultation, education, and support to the interdisciplinary group on spiritual care.
9. Recruits community chaplains, spiritual counselors, and spiritual care volunteers adequate to meet patient and family/caregiver needs by developing community contacts and offering education through congregations about hospice care.
10. Actively participates in quality assessment performance improvement teams and activities.
11. Provides for funeral or memorial services for patients as requested.
12. Plans periodic memorial services to meet the needs of personnel, volunteers, and community clergy/spiritual counselors working with the hospice team.
13. Assists in supervision of spiritual care volunteers when assigned to patients/ families/caregivers.
14. Accepts and performs other related duties and responsibilities as required.
Our mission is to provide comfort where there is pain, solutions where there are challenges, and peace where there is chaos in the lives of our patients and their loved ones. Hospice is not about dying, rather it is about living and maximizing the quality of life that a person has remaining. It recognizes death as a normal part of life and engages not only the patient, but also loved ones as it provides a team of specialists to care for people as they write that final chapter of life’s journey.
Pay: $21 - $26 / hour
Pay:
- Other
Benefits:
- Flexible schedule
- Mileage reimbursement
- Paid time off
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Life insurance
- Disability insurance
Job Type: fulltime
Schedule:
- Weekend availability
- Monday to Friday
- On call
- Holidays
Education: Bachelor's degree
Work location: On-site
Salary : $21 - $26
