Hospice: Chaplain

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

 

Position: Chaplain for Hospice

Salary: $6,000 - $65,000 annually, depending on experience

Service Area: South Central (coverage area: St. Louis Park, Richfield, Bloomington, Burnsville, Lakeville & surrounding). Plus, mileage reimbursement of .70 cents per mile.

Schedule: Full - Time, 1.0 FTE / Monday – Friday, 8:00am-5:00pm

 

Lifespark Benefits Include:   

• Annual Reviews/Raises {Shift differentials if applicable} 
• Paid Time Off – Vacation Time 
• Mileage reimbursement
• Medical, Dental, Vision benefits for Full Time Hires 
• Short-Term Disability & Long-Term Disability Insurance 
• Life Insurances 
• 401k + Company Match for full-time and part-time employees 
• Referral bonuses 
• Career path to other positions within our growing company! 

 

Lifespark is a complete senior health company headquartered in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. Since 2004, we’ve been helping seniors stay healthy, navigate their health care options with confidence, and live fuller, more independent lives as they age. That’s where our people come in – from accounting and health technology to front-line nurses, advanced practice professionals, caregivers and everything in between, we are all invested entrepreneurs focused on helping people age magnificently.

 

Position Functions & Responsibilities:

• Assures spiritual assessment of patients and families/caregivers in the hospice program and appropriate services are rendered in a timely manner.
• Facilitates the development of the individualized the plan of care by participating in the comprehensive assessment to meet identified spiritual needs.
• Provides direct spiritual care to patients and families/caregivers.
• Serves as liaison and support to community chaplains and spiritual counselors.
• Maintains records of spiritual care services utilization and related activities for quality assurance, program development, and policies and procedures review and revision.
• Documents direct services 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.
• Recruits community chaplains, spiritual counselors, and spiritual care volunteers adequate to meet patient and family/caregiver needs by developing community contacts and offering education through congregations about hospice care.
• Provides for funeral or memorial services for patients as requested.
• Plans periodic memorial services to meet the needs of personnel, volunteers, and community clergy/spiritual counselors working with the hospice team.
• Assists in supervision of spiritual care volunteers when assigned to patients/ families/caregivers
• Actively participates in quality assessment performance improvement teams and activities.
• Accepts and performs other related duties and responsibilities as required.
• Completes all documentation in a timely manner and responsible for client record content
• Complete orientation and annual training requirements.
• Promote safety in the workplace through real time coaching, participation in safety awareness training and progressive discipline where necessary
• Delegate tasks where appropriate and possible.
• Schedule regular check-in times for the individuals you talk to most often.

• Participate in After Hours on-call program
• Assesses bereavement risk of families/caregivers, including early bereavement needs for anticipatory grief, ineffective coping, and child/adolescent bereavement needs. 
• Coordinates the assessment and delivery of grief counseling needs and services (one-to-one, groups and ongoing follow-up) to ensure timely and appropriate services are provided to family/caregivers.
• Provides bereavement support to hospice personnel coping with work-related grief through one-to-one counseling, supervision of volunteers providing one-to-one counseling, and referrals to community resources.
• Provides bereavement information and referral services to callers from the community.  Expands and maintains community resource list as needed.
• Functions independently but seeks and accepts guidance from other members of the interdisciplinary group