What are the responsibilities and job description for the Chaplain position at Avalon Health Care Management Inc.?
Brighten Life Home Health is hiring a Chaplain to jour our team!
The Chaplain is responsible for providing spiritual care services to patients and families/caregivers of Brighten Life Hospice LLC, either directly or through coordination of care with other spiritual counselors.
Responsibilities
- Assure spiritual assessment of patients and families/caregivers in the hospice program and appropriate services are rendered in a timely manner.
- Facilitate the development of the individualized plan of care by participating in the comprehensive assessment to meet identified spiritual needs.
- Provide direct spiritual care to patients and families/caregivers.
- Serve as a liaison and support to community chaplains and spiritual counselors.
- Maintain records of spiritual care services utilization and related activities for quality assurance, program development, and policies and procedures review and revision.
- Document direct services and ongoing communication with community chaplains and spiritual counselors.
- Attend patient care conference and interdisciplinary group meetings as a member of the interdisciplinary group.
- Provide consultation, education, and support to the interdisciplinary group on spiritual care.
- Recruit 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.
- Provide for funeral or memorial services for patients as requested.
Qualifications
- One year experience in a Health Care setting.
- Have a bachelor’s degree in a related field.
- Must have experience working with death and dying, individuals/family/caregiver.
- Hospice experience preferred.
- Must possess the ability to work as a member of an interdisciplinary group.
- Must demonstrate comfort in an interfaith setting.
- Must possess the ability to accept different lifestyles, cultures, beliefs, and values.
- Must possess the ability to network with the community, clergy, and congregations.
- Must demonstrate knowledge of and commitment to hospice philosophy of care.
