Chaplain WMCG

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Work Shift:

Various (United States of America).

The mission of Wellstar's Department of Spiritual Health is to impact the healing experience by offering compassionate presence and bringing hope to patients and residents, families, staff, and community, evidencing our commitment to the health and well-being of the whole person mind, body, and spirit. Our five-fold values are: (1) Integrating professional and compassionate Religious/Spiritual/Humanist (R/S/H) care; (2) Refining evidence-based, research-literate practice;

(3) Partnering with diverse and global voices; (4) Embracing local R/S/H community leaders; and (5) Honoring the past and building toward the future. The clinically trained professional Chaplain has the primary responsibilities of offering spiritual health care and emotional support to patients/residents and their families/support systems, inclusive of all faith traditions and chosen spiritual paths, utilizing their expertise and advanced knowledge of spiritual health.

The Chaplain will perform spiritual assessments; develop individualized care plans that include patient care goals; offer spiritual interventions based on their knowledge and discretion including sacraments and rituals as appropriate; collaborate with the multidisciplinary team to positively impact the patient's plan of care; and offer beginning-of-life and end-of-life support and legacy work to the patient/resident and bereavement support to the patient's family/support system.

The Chaplain will work closely with the larger faith community to create a network of support to best meet the religious and spiritual needs of patients, residents, families, and team members. The Chaplain will offer support to team members, including education on self-care and compassion fatigue. The Chaplain is required to participate in the on-call rotation on a regular basis, as determined by the site-specific needs.

• Provide spiritual, religious, and emotional care to patients, residents, families, and their support systems, irrespective of faith tradition or spiritual path.
• Possess a working knowledge of major world religions, including an understanding of the integration of a patient's belief system and values in plan of care decision making.
• Perform spiritual assessments to gather and evaluate the spiritual/religious, emotional, and social needs, hopes, and resources of patients/residents and their family; determine appropriate spiritual interventions, including rituals/sacraments, spiritual support, reflection, advisement, crisis intervention, and bereavement support; identify potential obstacles for the delivery of effective spiritual care.
• Function as advocate for the patient/resident/family; identify and interpret the impact of cultural beliefs and practices on the plan of care.
• Offer emotional support and perform legacy work with patients nearing end-of-life; provide bereavement support to families; identify anticipatory grief and provide resource assistance with navigating decedent care arrangements, as needed.
• Facilitate advance care planning with patients/residents and their families/support systems.
• Document in EMR (electronic medical record) all spiritual health encounters and interventions to ensure continuity and cohesiveness in care.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary team on the care plan to ensure spiritual health support and care; contribute to the well-being of patients/residents and their family/support system, including attendance at IDRs (interdisciplinary rounds).
• Participate in on-call rotation (including evenings, overnights, weekends, and holidays) on a regular basis, as determined by site-specific needs.
• Hospice chaplains ONLY:
  Participate in interdisciplinary team (IDT) meetings and contribute to the plan of care to address the spiritual needs of the hospice patient and their family.
• Hospice chaplains ONLY:
  Determine an individualized plan of care that contributes to the overall care of the patient and family, is measurable, documented in the EMR, and is updated regularly; develop visit order frequencies for follow-up visits to provide spiritual support.
• Hospice chaplains ONLY:
  Provide spiritual health care in the home hospice, IPU (inpatient unit), and GIP (general inpatient), and ED (emergency department)/outpatient settings as assigned.
• Outpatient chaplains ONLY:
  Provide spiritual health care in Well Star Medical Group settings, including attending to urgent spiritual needs in other Well Star outpatient settings.
• Provide spiritual, religious, and emotional care to team members or their family members following a death, regardless of faith tradition, spiritual path, heritage, or culture, including debriefings, crisis intervention, support, and memorial services.
• Design and offer education on self-care for the professional caregiver.
• Serve as a subject matter expert and educate physicians and…