per diem chaplain

Job Title / Position : Hospice Chaplain

Glory Hospice has over 40 years of clinician experience in pain and symptom management. We are currently looking for a Chaplain to join our growing team and p in San Diego with an emphasis on North County and Southwest Inland Empire.

OUR VISION is that all individuals embrace the end of life’s journey and prepare for a peaceful death.

OUR MISSION is to provide the dying and their loved ones with peace, comfort, and dignity.

OUR COMMITMENT is to provide terminally ill patients with attentive, high-quality, individualized support and compassionate care, including their loved ones.

OUR COMMITMENT TO EMPLOYEES is a work environment that fosters teamwork, innovation, and support.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS / RESPONSIBILITIES

• Assures spiritual assessment of patients and families / caregivers in the hospice program and appropriate services are rendered in a timely manner.
• Facilitates the development of the individualized plan of care by participating in the comprehensive assessment to meet identified spiritual needs.
• Provides direct spiritual care to patients and families / caregivers.
• Serves as liaison and support to community chaplains and spiritual counselors.
• Maintains records of spiritual care services utilization and related activities for quality assurance, program development, and policies and procedures review and revision.
• Documents direct services and ongoing communication with community chaplains and spiritual counselors.
• Attends patient care conference and interdisciplinary group meetings as a member of the interdisciplinary group.
• Provides consultation, education, and support to the interdisciplinary group on spiritual care.
• Recruits 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.
• Provides for funeral or memorial services for patients as requested.
• Plans periodic memorial services to meet the needs of personnel, volunteers, and community clergy / spiritual counselors working with the hospice team.
• Assists in supervision of spiritual care volunteers when assigned to patients / families / caregivers.
• Actively participates in quality assessment performance improvement teams and activities.
• Accepts and performs other related duties and responsibilities as required.

POSITION QUALIFICATIONS

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