Chaplain Hospice Home Health - Temporary - Fontana MC - Hospice and EOL

Pay Competitive

Employment type

Full-Time

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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
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• 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 Health Care 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 Health Care 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…