Chaplain - Hospice - Per Diem

Core Competencies

• Understands other faiths, cultures and spiritualties.
  
  
• Works within a multi-faith context.
  
  
• Provides emotional and spiritual support, guidance and counseling to patients, families and significant others by referral from physicians, nurses, volunteers, and other members of the healthcare team.
  
  
• Provides emotional and spiritual support, guidance and counseling to other members of the healthcare team when requested by the individuals.
  
  
• Supports staff and volunteers through difficult and traumatic care-related situations. Provides personal guidance through times of crisis and/or refers staff appropriately to other caregivers within the hospital, the Employee Assistance Program, or the wider faith community (based upon staff preference).
  
  
• Works collaboratively with social workers, volunteers and other Medical Center staff in establishing priorities for assessing patient/family/significant other/staff needs; planning and implementing interventions; and subsequently evaluating the effectiveness of the interventions.
  
  
• Encourages and enables them to visit members of their communities when patients/families/significant others indicate a desire for this.
  
  
• Interfaces with faith community leaders to maintain a bond with the Medical Center in meeting the spiritual needs of our patients.
  
  
• Participates in appropriate spiritually-based conferences and patient-focused activities in the community.
  
  
• Serves as an active member of assigned Medical Center committees such as the Palliative Care Committee, Ethics Committee and Home Health Hospice Committees.
  
  
• Serves as a teacher to other members of the healthcare team and volunteers in understanding how to meet the needs of patients of varied faiths, cultures and spiritualties.
  
  

Department Specific Competencies

• Attends weekly interdisciplinary conferences with the hospice team to discuss the emotional and physical impact on the hospice patient in order to provide a continuity of care for hospice families.
  
  
• Participates in hospice activities such as inservice education, hospice personnel meetings and relevant committees.
  
  
• Provides bereavement support to hospice personnel coping with work related grief through one-to-one counseling, supervision of interns providing one-to-one counseling and referral to community resources.
  
  

Education

Experience

License / Certification Requirements

Compensation: 

$47.86/hr