What are the responsibilities and job description for the Hospice Chaplain position at Phoenix Home Care and Hospice?
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Phoenix Home Care and Hospice is adding a Hospice Chaplain to our Wichita, KS team!
If you are compassionate, caring and have a heart for people, Phoenix Home Care and Hospice would like to hear from you!
Come Soar with Phoenix!
Responsibilities
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Our mission is to offer New Beginnings and meaningful opportunities to our caregivers and clinicians while providing home care services to our clients built on innovation, skill, and Christ-like values of compassion, honesty, and patience.
Phoenix Home Care and Hospice is adding a Hospice Chaplain to our Wichita, KS team!
If you are compassionate, caring and have a heart for people, Phoenix Home Care and Hospice would like to hear from you!
Come Soar with Phoenix!
Responsibilities
- Conduct a spiritual assessment as part of the comprehensive assessment within 5 days of admission to the hospice program
- Assist in development and implementation of the interdisciplinary patient care plan as it pertains to spiritual care
- Provide spiritual support in accordance with on-going wishes and needs of the patient/family in accordance with their religious preferences or definition of spirituality
- Work in close collaboration with local clergy when desired by the patient
- Maintain and submit written clinical records as deemed by the Agency, including the initial evaluation, the care plan and daily notes
- Evaluate the patients and family's response to, and effectiveness of, the spiritual counseling
- Confirm, on a weekly basis, the scheduling visits with the patients' Case Managers to facilitate coordination of other staff visits
- Participate in IDG and QAPI meetings and activities
- Conduct religious services of prayer, worship and rituals for patients/families as appropriate
- Working with other professionals in resolving spiritual/ethical issues
- Provide spiritual and bereavement support to staff as needed
- Provide consultation and education to the IDG on spiritual care
- Provide funeral or memorial services for patients as requested
- Assume responsibility for self-development by continually striving to improve his/her Spiritual practice through formal education, attendance at workshops and conferences, active participation in professional and related organizational meetings, and/or individual research and reading
- Ordained, commissioned or credentialed according to the practices of an organized religious group and has completed one (1) unit of Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE). (Has a degree in theology or a degree from a seminary.)
- Comfortable in an interfaith setting
- Hospice experience preferred. Experience working with death and dying, individuals/family/caregivers
Choose Phoenix, Apply today!
Our mission is to offer New Beginnings and meaningful opportunities to our caregivers and clinicians while providing home care services to our clients built on innovation, skill, and Christ-like values of compassion, honesty, and patience.
