Job Description
Job Description To show our commitment to you and to assist with your transition into our organization, we will also offer up to a $2500 sign-on bonus to experienced Chaplains and Associate Chaplains with more than 1+ years of experience. You. You bring your body, mind, heart and spirit to your work as a Hospice Chaplain.
Your compassion is tangible: whether your patient is 18 or 85, they feel it in the hand they hold. Families feel it in your prayers. Colleagues feel it in your support.
You're generous with your compassion, your empathy and especially your ability to listen to others as you work with associates, patients and their families during especially challenging times.
Us. Lutheran Medical Center is part of SCL Health, a faith-based, nonprofit healthcare organization that focuses on person-centered care. Our 249-bed community-based hospital provides comprehensive, specialty care to the poor, the vulnerable, our communities and each other. Dating back to 1905, we are proud of the rich history and inspiring mission our hospital has embodied for over 110 years.
Benefits are one of the ways we encourage health for you and your family. Our generous package includes medical, dental and vision coverage. But health is more than a well-working body: it encompasses body, mind and social well-being. To that end, we've launched a Healthy Living program to address your holistic health. Healthy Living includes financial incentives, digital tools, tobacco cessation, classes, counseling and paid time off. We also offer financial wellness tools and retirement planning.
We. Together we'll align mission and careers, values and workplace. We'll encourage joy and take pride in our integrity.
We'll laugh at each other's jokes (even the bad ones). We'll hello and high five. We'll celebrate milestones and acknowledge the value of spirituality in healing.
We're proud of what we know, which includes how much there is to learn.
Your day. As a Hospice Chaplain you need to know how to:
- Partners with members of the Hospice and post-acute care services teams to provide a multidisciplinary approach to care and planning.
- Conduct comprehensive assessments/reassessments of spiritual needs for spiritual care plan, facilitate interventions and support for patients and families within required timeline.
- Provides services to the patient/caregiver in accordance with the plan of care.
- Participates in multidisciplinary patient rounds, care conferences, and consultations.
- Participates as a member of the hospice IDT in the development and implementation of the patient's care plan.
- Documents appropriately in the patient's medical record.
- Make reasonable efforts to arrange for visits of clergy and members of other religious/spiritual organizations from the community as per patient/family request.
- Supports ongoing partnerships with community clergy.
- Participates in after hours and weekend on call responsibilities.
- Participate in maintenance of proper administrative procedures for service lines and team in accordance with institutional and regulatory policies, procedures and professional practices.
- Participates in continuous quality improvement.
- Participates in agency wide meetings, committees and education.
- Serves as flex chaplain in hospice (inpatient and home), home health, outpatient palliative care and other service lines as assigned.
Your experience. We hire people, not resumes. But we also expect excellence, which is why we require:
- Bachelor's Degree Required; 4 Units of Clinical Pastoral Education (ACPE) are required.
- Board Certification through the Association of Professional Chaplains or the Spiritual Care Associate required within 2 years of hire date.
- 6 months prior hospice/and or post-acute care experience required
- Master of Divinity, Theology or related field completed is preferred; nearing completion of Master's degree accepted
- Board Certified Chaplain through APC or SCA, preferred
- 1 year prior hospice experience preferred.
Your next move. Now that you know more about being a Hospice Chaplain on our team we hope you'll join us. At SCL Health you'll reaffirm every day how much you love this work, and why you were called to it in the first place.
Job Tags
Relocation bonus, Flexible hours, Weekend work,