Part Time Hospice Chaplain-Days-Princeton-Penn Medicine at Home

Penn Medicine; North Johnson City (TN); On-site; USD 48,000 - 71,000; Full time

Job summary

Penn Medicine at Home is seeking a Chaplain to provide and document spiritual need assessments, care planning, interventions, and outcome evaluations for seriously ill patients and families. The Chaplain will assist with life closure, dying, and grief through personalized care such as planning, interventions, and evaluation.

Responsibilities include collaborating with an interdisciplinary team, conducting assessments, providing spiritual counseling, and developing care plans based on client

Qualifications

• Master of Arts or Science required.
• Education specialization in Divinity, Pastoral Theology, or Counseling.
• CPE Experience (4 units) preferred.
• 1+ years healthcare environment experience preferred.
• Hospice or home care chaplain experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Participate as a member of an Interdisciplinary Team in developing and evaluating a personalized Plan of Care for patients and families.
• Conduct comprehensive spiritual assessments and document plans and outcomes.
• Provide spiritual counseling to patients and families facing grief, coping, or end-of-life decisions.
• Develop an individualized Plan of Care with patients and caregivers and implement interventions to support comfort and dignity.
• Identify community resources and evaluate outcomes of spiritual care planning with patients and families.
• Educate patients and families on care factors, treatment options, disease processes, and grief issues.

Education

Master of Arts or Science

Education Specialization: Divinity, Pastoral Theology, and/or Counseling

Job description

Description

Penn Medicine is dedicated to our tripartite mission of providing the highest level of care to patients, conducting innovative research, and educating future leaders in the field of medicine. Working for this leading academic medical center means collaboration with top clinical, technical and business professionals across all disciplines. Today at Penn Medicine, someone will make a breakthrough. Someone will heal a heart, deliver hopeful news, and give comfort and reassurance. Our employees shape our future each day. Are you living your life's work?

Summary

• The Chaplain will provide and document individualized spiritual need assessments, care planning, interventions, and outcome evaluations for seriously ill and dying Penn Medicine at Home patients and their families. The Chaplain will assist patients and families with issues related to self-determining life closure, safe and comfortable dying and effective grieving through individualized care such as planning, interventions, and evaluations.

Responsibilities

• Participate as a member of an Interdisciplinary Team in the formulation and ongoing evaluation of an individualized, age-specific, culturally, and spiritually responsive Plan of Care for each patient and family.


• Conduct comprehensive spiritual assessments and ongoing reassessments of patients and families. Accurately document and verbally communicates assessment information, treatment plans, and client system interactions in a timely manner according to the organizational setting and agency standards.


• Assess spiritual needs and provide spiritual counseling to patients and families who are at social or psychological risk. Attend to individuals who demonstrate ineffective coping skills and grief reaction.


• Develop an individualized Plan of Care with the patient and caregivers based on the spiritual assessment. Develop and implement interventions that optimize comfort and dignity in addition to enhancing the client’s abilities and decisions.


• Identify community resources, coordinate spiritual management, and evaluate outcomes of resource planning with patients and families.


• Educate patients and families on factors impacting care, treatment options, disease process, and issues of grief and loss.


• Demonstrate knowledge of medical terminology, medications, disease process, and treatment decisions faced by patients through disease progression and facilitate decision-making - including advance directives.


• Evaluate diverse patients’ and families’ adaptation to hospice care and work effectively with them on issues of death, dying, treatment modalities, and spiritual beliefs.


• Identify patients’, families’, and caregivers’ grief and bereavement needs and assess risk for complicated grief. Screen for both psychopathology, suicide risk, and/or abuse/neglect.


• Respond with effective professional skills in crisis situations and understands the limits of his/her expertise. Seeks consultation and/or refers to others as needed.

We believe that the best care for our patients starts with the best care for our employees. Our employee benefits programs help our employees get healthy and stay healthy. We offer a comprehensive compensation and benefits program that includes one of the finest prepaid tuition assistance programs in the region. Penn Medicine employees are actively engaged and committed to our mission. Together we will continue to make medical advances that help people live longer, healthier lives.

Credentials

• Clinical pastoral educators


• Driver's License (Required)


• Car Insurance (Required)

Education or Equivalent Experience

• Master of Arts or Science (Required)


• Education Specialization: Divinity, Pastoral Theology, and/or Counseling


• CPE Experience (4 units) preferred


• 1+ years Experience within a healthcare environment preferred


• Experience in hospice or home care setting preferred


• Oncology, geriatric, or hospital chaplain experience preferred

Salary Range

$48,443.20 - $71,406.40/Annually based on 40 hours per week

Live Your Life's Work

We are an Equal Opportunity employer. Candidates are considered for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, marital status, familial status, genetic information, domestic or sexual violence victim status, citizenship status, military status, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable law.