Palliative Care Chaplain — Spiritual & Family Support

Intermountain Healthcare Inc.; Logan (OH); On-site; USD 39,000 - 61,000; Full time

Job summary

Intermountain Health Logan Regional Hospital is seeking a Staff Palliative Care Chaplain to provide compassionate spiritual and emotional support to patients with life-limiting illnesses, families, and caregivers. You will conduct spiritual assessments, participate in IDT rounds, and contribute to care planning.

You will facilitate family meetings, assist with advance directives, document in the electronic medical record, and respond to crises, while collaborating with ICU staff and ethics

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 …

Responsibilities

• 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 listening

Spiritual assessment

Crisis intervention

Interdisciplinary collaboration

Verbal and written communication

Meeting & priority management

Documentation in EMR

Interfaith knowledge

Family and group dynamics

Education

Bachelor’s Degree (accredited)

2 CPE units (NACC/APC BCCi approved)

4 CPE units (NACC/APC BCCi approved)

Job description

Intermountain Health Logan Regional Hospital is seeking a Staff Palliative Care Chaplain to provide compassionate spiritual and emotional support to patients with life-limiting illnesses, families, and caregivers. You will conduct spiritual assessments, participate in IDT rounds, and contribute to care planning.

You will facilitate family meetings, assist with advance directives, document in the electronic medical record, and respond to crises, while collaborating with ICU staff and ethics