Job Description
**PRN Chaplain \- Hospice**
**Amarillo, TX 79106**
***Agency: High Plain Senior Care Hospice***
**Job Summary:**
Primary function is to provide spiritual care to patients/caregivers of all age groups and perform spiritual assessments, provide spiritual/pastoral support and make referrals to meet the needs of the patient/family.
**Job Classification:** Clinical
**Lines of Authority:** Reports to Director of Nursing
**Job Qualifications:****Education:** College degree preferred; Masters of Divinity preferred, or proven experience in the field.
**Licensure:** State Driver’s License
**Experience:** One (1\) year experience as a Chaplain in a health care institution preferred.
**Skills:** Working knowledge of community spiritual resources. Good interpersonal skills. TB screen annually.
**Transportation:** Reliable transportation. Valid auto liability insurance.
**Environmental and Working Conditions:** Works in patient homes in various conditions. Occasional exposure to infectious diseases; ability to travel locally; some exposure to unpleasant weather. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the position without compromising the quality of work.
**Physical and Mental Effort:** Prolonged standing, walking, and sitting required; requires working under some stressful conditions to meet deadlines and patient/family needs; and to make quick decisions and resource acquisition; meet family/patient spiritual needs.
**Roles \& Responsibilities:**
* Assess hospice patient/family to identify spiritual needs and develop individualized spiritual plan of care.
* Collaborate with local clergy as needed. Assist in development and update of the comprehensive POC.
* Conduct services of prayer, worship and ritual for patient/families, as appropriate, offering different philosophies and belief opportunities to discuss and share.
* Provide individual patient/family counseling, crisis intervention, information and assistance with preparations of advance directives, funeral planning issues and transfer of responsibilities relative to legal and fiscal issues.
* Work with IDG, participating in the ongoing POC, developing, documenting, and evaluating responses to interventions in order to update the POC to meet spiritual needs of patient and family.
* Work with other staff, resolving spiritual/ pastoral/ethical issues. Be available for bereavement or counseling needs.
* Use effective interpersonal relations and communication skills to work with family members as needed and to assist in planning for discharge and for bereavement, utilizing local clergy as needed.
* Complete appropriate documentation in a timely manner.
* Assess patient/family response to and satisfaction with care.
* Make visits to patient/family prior to death and be available to the family during the bereavement period as needed.
* Meet mandatory continuing education requirements of the agency and participate in service programs.
* Promote Agency philosophy and administrative policies to ensure quality of care
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