The Hospice Chaplain is responsible for the provision of spiritual care services to patients and families/caregivers of St. Croix Hospice, either directly or through coordination of care with other spiritual counselors.
Essential Job Functions/Responsibilities
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Assures spiritual assessment of patients and families/caregivers in the hospice program and appropriate services are rendered in a timely manner.
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Develops an individualized the plan of care by participating in the comprehensive assessment to meet identified spiritual needs.
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Provides direct spiritual care to patients and families/caregivers.
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Serves as liaison and support to community chaplains and spiritual counselors.
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Maintains records of spiritual care services utilization and related activities for quality assurance, program development, and policies and procedures review and revision.
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Documents direct services and ongoing communication with community chaplains and spiritual counselors.
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Attends patient care conference and interdisciplinary group meetings as a member of the interdisciplinary group.
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Provides consultation, education, and support to the interdisciplinary group on spiritual care.
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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.
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Assists the Director of Bereavement in maintaining a bereavement program to meet the needs of families/caregivers for 13 months following the death of a patient to ensure compliance with all state, federal, and CHAP regulatory requirements.
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Ensures the initial bereavement assessment is completed, or assigned to appropriate team member.
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Ensures a condolence call is made, or assigned to be made to the bereaved.
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Assigns and oversees volunteers making bereavement calls.
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Assists with maintaining, organizing, and updating support group schedule.
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Provides for funeral or memorial services for patients as requested.
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Plans periodic memorial services to meet the needs of personnel, volunteers, and community clergy/spiritual counselors working with the hospice team.
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Assists in supervision of spiritual care volunteers when assigned to patients/ families/caregivers.
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Actively participates in quality assessment performance improvement teams and activities.
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Accepts and performs other related duties and responsibilities as required.
The above statements are intended to be a representative summary of the major duties and responsibilities performed by incumbents of this job. The incumbents may be requested to perform job-related tasks other than those stated in this description.
