Job Description
Job Summary:
To provide spiritual support and counseling to home care patients, families and staff in a culturally inclusive manner. Home Care is defined as Home Health, Hospice, Home Palliative or any future at home service offerings as prescribed by KP. The Chaplain is a member of the interdisciplinary patient care team, participates in patient care planning and documents all pertinent interventions in the patient care record using established charting methodologies.
Essential Responsibilities:
Administrative Duties:
- Participates in Quality Assurance Activities to include but not limited to committees for Patient Satisfaction Scores, QI Projects, UBT, etc. as requested or in collaboration with agency leadership.
- May serve on Committees and work in collaboration with committees such as Bioethics, EAP, LCP, ELOA.
- Conducts In-services and CEU programs to improve Integrated Model of Care to include but not limited to New Employee Orientation and Interdisciplinary Meetings.
- Provides Staff support to maintain Spiritual Resilience in HealthCare to include but not limited to IDG & All Staff reflections, speakers and rituals.
- Provides faith/ value-based rites/rituals and maintains collaboration with Community Clergy to ensure support to staff, patients and families for religious specific spiritual care needs.
- Acts as a consult to community liaisons faith leaders regarding serving in a HealthCare setting as appropriate for collaboration in meeting homecare patient needs.
- Provides spiritual support and spiritual counseling to staff members such as but not limited to, de-briefs, complex grief as requested by leadership.
- Maintains compliance with the Standards of Practice for Professional Chaplains and demonstrates Common Qualifications and Competencies for Professional Chaplaincy
- Attends education programs to assist in improving skills related to provision of homecare services.
- Other duties as assigned.
Direct Patient Care:
- Provides spiritual support and counseling to home care patients, families and staff in a culturally competent manner that upholds the Kaiser Permanente Principles of Responsibility.
- Clinical Chaplain is a member of the interdisciplinary patient care team, using evidence-based outcome-oriented assessment tools to participate in creating patient care plan that includes acuity mapping to define frequency of visits/duration, documents interventions/outcomes and meets the TJC/regulatory guidelines of Hospice/Homecare.
- Provides spiritual support or visits at the time of death as assessed by patient/family need.
- Will support the admission / consent process in collaboration with the inter-disciplinary team in the explanation of hospice benefits to the patient and families at leadership request.
- Supports bereavement care plan to surviving family members for up to 13 months after patient dies; including phone support, in home visitations, bereavement support groups and memorial. Chaplains assist with funeral services for deceased patients when requested and as scheduling allows.
- Will vary schedule in collaboration with leadership to accommodate need for 24-hour coverage.
Basic Qualifications:
Experience
- Minimum of one (1) year of experience as a Clinical Chaplain/Spiritual Counselor in a Hospital, Ambulatory, Home Health, Palliative Care or Hospice setting required.
Education
- Masters Degree in Divinity, Theology or related field from an accredited Seminary, College or University required.
License, Certification, Registration
- Driver's License (California) required at hire
- Basic Life Support required at hire
Additional Requirements:
- Must be able to serve & support people of all religions, world views, and spiritual perspectives.
- Maintains adequate automobile liability insurance as required by Hospice Program policy.
- Meet Medical Center/Homecare requirements for health appraisal and annual PPD testing.
- Behaves in a courteous, professional manner with patients, staff and health care professionals and maintains patient confidentiality.
- Appropriate age specific competencies to be successfully completed by end of orientation: Infant, Toddler, Child, Adolescent, Adult and Geriatric.
- Conveys a sense of maturity and sensitivity with good listening skills as evident on interviewing.
- Ability to prioritize and manage multiple tasks and crisis situations.
- Demonstrated excellent reading, writing and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to recognize urgent patient needs and how to report it.
- Must be able to work in a Labor/Management Partnership environment.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Two (2) or more years of experience as a Clinical Chaplain/ Spiritual Counselor in a Hospital, Home Health, Palliative or Hospice Setting.
- Board Certified Chaplain Certification from Association of Professional Chaplains.
- Minimum of four (4) units of Clinical Pastoral Education from an ACPE accredited program (ACPE is the CPE program accredited by the U.S. Department of Education).
- PhD, DMin, ThD or EdD from an accredited Seminary, College or University. Certificates specializing in Palliative or Hospice Care.
Notes:
- Temporary coverage x 6 months
Job Tags
Temporary work,