Palliative Care Chaplain

Intermountain Healthcare Inc.; Kentucky; On-site; USD 33,000 - 44,000; Full time

Job summary

Intermountain Healthcare Inc. in Logan, Utah seeks a Staff Palliative Care Chaplain to provide spiritual and emotional support to patients with life-limiting illnesses, their families, and caregivers.

The role integrates with the palliative care IDT and ICU teams to assess needs and contribute to care planning. Responsibilities include facilitating family meetings, supporting advance care planning, documenting outcomes in the EMR, and responding to crises.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree (accredited)
• Two or more years of health care chaplaincy experience, with at least one year in palliative care.
• Endorsement from ecclesial judicatory body within the last 12 months.
• Completion of CPCE units within 2 years of hire (2+ and 4 units)

Responsibilities

• Assist patients, families, and visitors with psychological, social, emotional and spiritual needs.
• Participate in IDT rounds, including ICU, and support care plans.
• Facilitate family meetings and advance care planning as needed.
• Document spiritual assessments and outcomes in the EMR.
• Respond to crises and participate in ethics consultations and triage as directed.

Skills

Empathetic listening

Spiritual assessment

Crisis intervention

Interdisciplinary collaboration

Verbal and written communication

Meeting and priority management

EMR documentation

Interfaith knowledge

Family dynamics

Education

Bachelor's Degree (accredited)

2 units Clinical Pastoral Education (NACC/APC BCCi)

4 units Clinical Pastoral Education (NACC/APC BCCi)

Job description

Job Description:

The Staff Palliative Care Chaplain provides compassionate spiritual and emotional support to patients with serious or life-limiting illnesses, their families, and caregivers. As a member of the interdisciplinary palliative care team, the chaplain conducts spiritual assessments, offers crisis intervention, and contributes to care planning and decision-making. This role involves facilitating family meetings, supporting advanced care planning, and coordinating resources to meet the unique spiritual and emotional needs of each patient. Will potentially need to help with weekend and general hospital coverage.

Essential Functions

• 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.

Skills

• 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

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree (accredited)
• Completion of 2 units of Accredited Clinical Pastoral Education meeting approval of NACC/APC BCCi completed within 2 years of hire
• Completion of four units of Clinical Pastoral Education meeting approval of NACC/APC BCCi completed within 2 years of hire
• Two or more years of health care chaplaincy experience, with at least one of those years specifically in palliative care.
• Documentation from ecclesial judicatory body of current endorsement and/or reference prescribed in accordance with applicant's spiritual/faith tradition (received or reaffirmed within the last 12 months) articulating current endorsement/authorization for hospital chaplaincy ministry and applicant's good standing with endorsing/authorizing body. The letter must be mailed, emailed, or faxed directly from the endorsing/recommending organization. Faith groups must be recognized by the Department of Defense (Armed Forces chaplains Board) or previously reviewed and approved by the BCCi . If not, approval of documentation of authorization/endorsement must come from Intermountain Mission office regarding a review of the faith group.

Preferred Qualifications

• Completion of 4 or more units of Clinical Pastoral Education meeting approval by NACC/APC BCCI
• Three or more years of relevant spiritual care experience in palliative care.

Physical Requirements

• Ongoing need for employee to see and read information, labels, documents, monitors, identify equipment and supplies, and be able to assess customer needs.
• Frequent interactions with providers, colleagues, customers, patients/clients and visitors that require employee to verbally communicate as well as hear and understand spoken information, needs, and issues quickly and accurately.
• Manual dexterity of hands and fingers to manipulate complex and delicate supplies and equipment with precision and accuracy. This includes frequent computer use for typing, accessing needed information, etc.
• For roles requiring driving: Expected to drive a vehicle which requires sitting, seeing and reading signs, traffic signals, and other vehicles.

Location

• Intermountain Health Logan Regional Hospital
• Work City: Logan
• Work State: Utah
• Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40
• The hourly range for this position is listed below. Actual hourly rate dependent upon experience. $28.06