Palliative Care Chaplain

Will potentially need to help with weekend and general hospital coverage.

• Assists patients, families, and visitors in coping with psychological, social, emotional, and spiritual needs during illness, trauma, and stress, while also offering caregiver and physician support for grief, moral distress, vicarious trauma, and compassion fatigue. 

• Participates in daily palliative care interdisciplinary team (IDT) rounds, including in the ICU, and engages in the ICU Early Intervention Model to support identified palliative care patients, collaborating with the team to develop and implement ongoing care plans. 

• Partners with ICU attending and resident physicians to assess the need and timing for family meetings, participates and may schedule and facilitate those meetings. 

• Conducts chart reviews to locate patients’ advance directives and assists in completing them when needed, ensuring that patients’ wishes are clearly documented and respected. 

• Develops, implements, and documents spiritual assessments, interventions, and outcomes, and ensures accurate and professional documentation in the electronic medical record system. 

• Responds to crisis situations such as resuscitations, trauma, rapid response, death, and security alerts, and participates in ethics consultations and triage calls as directed by the care site. 

• Works as a collaborative member of the Spiritual Care department by attending meetings, contributing to quality improvement plans and strategy deployment, promoting teamwork and collegiality, and maintaining flexibility to provide shift coverage as needed. 

• Participates in committees and may lead specific projects or initiatives, while also performing other duties as assigned. 

• Empathetic and Exceptional Listening 

• Spiritual Assessment and Pastoral Counsel 

• Crisis Intervention and Supportive Presence 

• Interdisciplinary and Team Collaboration 

• Verbal and Written Communication 

• Meeting and Priority Management 

• Digital and Electronic Documentation Competence 

• Interfaith Knowledge and Cultural Sensitivity 

• Family and Group Dynamics Awareness 

The hourly range for this position is listed below. Actual hourly rate dependent upon experience. 

We care about your well-being – mind, body, and spirit – which is why we provide our caregivers a generous benefits package that covers a wide range of programs to foster a sustainable culture of wellness that encompasses living healthy, happy, secure, connected, and engaged.

Learn more about our comprehensive benefits package here.

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