Chaplain

Traditions Health is seeking a new Chaplain to join our growing Hospice Team in Lincoln!

About Us: Since 2008, Traditions Health has been a leader in high-quality home health, hospice, and palliative care. We have grown from a single location to more than 115 locations across 18 states, allowing us to broaden our service area and reach more patients needing compassionate quality health care in the home. We measure our success by the superior quality of care we provide and the satisfaction of our patients and families. Our goal is to help patients have the best quality of life possible surrounded by the people they love. Our healthcare professionals are there when patients need us, providing the care they need in the place they want to be - home.

What Can Traditions Health Offer?

• Work/Life Balance
• Competitive Pay and Benefits
• Supportive Senior Staff
• Autonomy

Primary function is to provide spiritual and bereavement care to hospice patients and their caregivers. Perform spiritual and bereavement assessments, analysis, counseling, and referrals to meet the needs of the patient and the patient defined family unit.

• High School diploma or GED required.
• College degree preferred, Master of Divinity, preferred.

• Experience in a spiritual or religious organization.
• One year experience as a Spiritual Professional in a health care institution preferred.
• Experience or training in grief/loss counseling.

• Working knowledge of community spiritual resources.
• Good interpersonal skills.

• Assess hospice patient to identify spiritual needs as evidenced by POC, documentation, clinical records, and IDT conference minutes.
• Assess hospice family to identify bereavement needs as evidenced by documentation, and community resource referrals.
• Attend interdisciplinary team meetings and participate in the patient care planning process.
• Use effective interpersonal relations and communication skills; facilitates the use of these skills by other team members to achieve desirable outcomes.
• Meet mandatory continuing education requirements of the agency.
• Demonstrate commitment, professional growth, and competency by maintaining a working knowledge of public and private eligibility standards and requirements.
• Promote Agency philosophy and administrative policies to ensure quality of care.
• Collaborate with interdisciplinary team to promote coordination of patient care.
• Collaborate with interdisciplinary team to promote coordination of bereavement care.
• Accept clinical assignments that are consistent with education and competence to meet the needs of the patients.
• Initiate bereavement services, perform bereavement risk assessments, initiate, and update bereavement care plan for patient identified family in collaboration with interdisciplinary group.
• Provides continued bereavement support to hospice families as evidenced by documentation of the type of service and frequency.