Hospice Chaplain

Job Description

Job Description

We are a well-established hospice provider with 5 offices across the state of Missouri. Those offices are in St Louis, Columbia, Farmington, Dexter, and Ozark.

We are currently looking for an experienced Chaplain to work as part of our hospice interdisciplinary team serving the Ozark, MO area.

The Hospice Chaplain is an integral part of the hospice team who will perform the following duties:

Provide spiritual support to patients, caregivers, and families facing a terminal illness.

Work closely with nurses, social workers, CNAs, physicians, and volunteers to provide high quality hospice care.

Make visits wherever the patient resides---private home, skilled nursing facility, assisted living facility, hospital.

Complete a spiritual assessment on each assigned patient in a timely manner, and document in the electronic medical record.

Be open and well-versed in multiple religions, meeting the patient and family where they are in their spiritual journey. Must be able to offer spiritual support to various denominations, non-denominations, and those with no belief history/system.

Must be able to coordinate with other spiritual advisers in the community and in the patient's life.

Other duties could include offering communion to patients, providing devotional services and/or bereavement services to the nursing facilities we use, officiating memorial services and/or funerals, supporting co-workers through grief and trials in their lives.

Participates in grief support as needed.

Work hours are primarily Monday through Friday, 8am to 5pm, with the understanding a crisis can occur at any time. Flexibility with scheduling and hours a must.

Skills and Education Needed:

Must be ordained, commissioned or credentialed according to the practices of an organized religious group and has completed one unit of Clinical Pastoral Education, OR a Bachelor's degree with emphasis in counseling or theology. Prefer a Masters Degree in Divinity, Theology, or Spiritual Counseling.

Training in grief and bereavement counseling, experience with death and dying a plus.

Computer skills for charting/EMR, basic use of Word, Excel, email.

Hourly rate with mileage reimbursement and recent increase in mileage company-wide.

We believe that working in hospice is a calling. If you feel you have the calling, and meet the requirements above, please submit your resume for review.