Hospice Chaplain: Compassionate Spiritual Care Leader

Covchurch; Turlock (CA); Hybrid; USD 81,000 - 113,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental and vision coverage

PTO & holidays

403(b) retirement plan

Job summary

Covenant Living is seeking a Hospice Chaplain to provide spiritual care within CovenantCare at Home and Hospice. You will work with patients, families, and staff, coordinating with the interdisciplinary team to develop and implement spiritual plans of care.

The role emphasizes interfaith sensitivity, hospice philosophy, and leadership in caregiver support groups, with a strong focus on documentation and collaboration across the care team.

Qualifications

• Completion or commitment to 1-2 CPE units preferred.
• Board certification (or progression toward) by a national spiritual care organization preferred.
• Experience with death and dying; comfortable in interfaith settings.
• Hospice experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide direct spiritual care to patients, families, and staff.
• Lead caregiver support groups as needed.
• Develop individualized spiritual plans of care for patients and families.
• Maintain records of spiritual care services for QA and policy reviews.
• Attend patient care conferences and interdisciplinary meetings.
• Offer consultation and education on spiritual care to the team.
• Conduct funeral or memorial services when requested.

Skills

Communication

Interfaith sensitivity

Team collaboration

Death and dying support

Education

CPE completion

Board certification progression

Job description

Position Summary

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The Hospice Chaplain is responsible for the provision of spiritual care services to patients, families/caregivers and staff of CovenantCare Home Health and Hospice, either directly or through coordination of care with other spiritual counselors.

• Provides direct spiritual care to patients, families/caregivers, and staff fitting to their unique needs and in a timely manner. Where needed, lead/facilitate caregiver support groups.
• Assures spiritual assessment and development of individualized spiritual plan of care for patients/caregivers in the hospice or home health program.
• Maintains records of spiritual care services utilization and related activities for quality assurance, program development, and policies and procedures review and revision.
  Serves as liaison and support to community chaplains and spiritual counselors.
• Documents direct service and ongoing communication with community chaplains and spiritual counselors.
• Attends patient care conference and interdisciplinary group meetings as a member of the interdisciplinary group.
• Provides consultation, education, and support to the interdisciplinary group on spiritual care.
• Provides funeral or memorial services as requested/ needed for patients, families, and hospice team.

Qualifications and Responsibilities

• Completion or commitment toward 1-2 units of Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) or equivalent clinical training, preferred.
• Board certification (or progression toward) by a national professional spiritual care organization, preferred.
• Experience working with death and dying, individuals/family/caregiver.
  Comfort in an interfaith setting.
• Hospice experience preferred.
• Knowledge of and commitment to hospice philosophy of care.

Compensation

Compensation Pay Range: $80,591.00 – $113,388.50 per year

A reasonable estimate of the pay range for this position is $75,000 – 85,000 per year. There are numerous factors taken into consideration in determining the actual offered rate of pay, including but not limited to: job-related qualifications, experience, skills, education, geographic location, and consideration of internal and external equity.

For full-time employees, we offer a generous benefits package that includes:

• Medical, dental and vision insurance
• Employer paid group term life and disability
• Paid Time Off (PTO) & six paid holidays
• 403(b) with a 3% employer match
• Fitness center use at most facilities.

Various voluntary benefits:

• Life, AD&D
• Tuition assistance and scholarships
• Employee assistance program
• Legal services, home/auto insurance, discount purchasing program
• Pet Insurance

For more information about Covenant Living and CovenantCare at Home, please visit www.covliving.org or www.covenantcareathome.org.