Hospice Chaplain
Phoenix Home Care and Hospice, United States
Job Description
Phoenix Home Care and Hospice is looking to add a Hospice Chaplain to our St. Louis, MO team!
Our Hospice Chaplin position includes meeting the physical, spiritual and emotional needs of our clients and their families. You would be helping with bereavement coordinator duties, helping providing counseling or arranging counseling in a manner consistent with their beliefs and desires in accordance with the patient's plan of care.
If you are compassionate, caring and have a heart for people, Phoenix Home Care would like to hear from you!
Availability: Full Time, Monday through Friday
Benefits
- Multiple Major Medical Plans to Choose From (Medical, Dental amp; Vision)
- Flexibility, competitive pay, paid mileage, benefits package, and 401K!
- Spousal Insurance
- PTO
- Orientation and training tailored to your needs as a new hire.
- Motivational PHC culture, training, and Supportive Home Health Team.
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.
Requirements
- 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.
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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.
At Phoenix Home Care and Hospice, we are committed to fostering a culture of equity, diversity, and inclusion in everything we do. We believe that everyone, regardless of their background or identity, deserves respect, equal opportunities, and compassionate care. Our commitment to equity and inclusion is rooted in our core values of innovation, compassion, and patience.