Part Time - Clinical Chaplain, Care at Home - Tustin
Company: Kaiser
Location: Laguna Niguel
Posted on: April 17, 2024
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Job Description:
Job Summary:
To provide spiritual support and counseling to home care patients,
families and staff in a culturally inclusive manner. Home Care is
defined as Home Health, Hospice, Home Palliative or any future at
home service offerings as prescribed by KP. The Chaplain is a
member of the interdisciplinary patient care team, participates in
patient care planning and documents all pertinent interventions in
the patient care record using established charting
methodologies.
Essential Responsibilities:
Administrative Support:
Participates in Quality Assurance Activities to include but not
limited to committees for Patient Satisfaction Scores, QI Projects,
UBT, etc. as requested or in collaboration with agency
leadership.
May serve on Committees and work in collaboration with committees
such as Bioethics, EAP, LCP, ELOA.
Conducts In-services and CEU programs to improve Integrated Model
of Care to include but not limited to New Employee Orientation and
Interdisciplinary Meetings.
Provides Staff support to maintain Spiritual Resilience in
HealthCare to include but not limited to IDG & All Staff
reflections, speakers and rituals.
Provides faith/ value-based rites/rituals and maintains
collaboration with Community Clergy to ensure support to staff,
patients and families for religious specific spiritual care
needs.
Acts as a consult to community liaisons faith leaders regarding
serving in a HealthCare setting as appropriate for collaboration in
meeting homecare patient needs.
Provides spiritual support and spiritual counseling to staff
members such as but not limited to, de-briefs, complex grief as
requested by leadership.
Maintains compliance with the Standards of Practice for
Professional Chaplains and demonstrates Common Qualifications and
Competencies for Professional Chaplaincyas defined by the APC
(Association of Professional Chaplains).
Attends education programs to assist in improving skills related to
provision of homecare services.
Other duties as assigned.
Direct Patient Care:
Provides spiritual support and counseling to home care patients,
families and staff in a culturally competent manner that upholds
the Kaiser Permanente Principles of Responsibility.
Clinical Chaplain is a member of the interdisciplinary patient care
team, using evidence-based outcome-oriented assessment tools to
participate in creating patient care plan that includes acuity
mapping to define frequency of visits/duration, documents
interventions/outcomes and meets the TJC/regulatory guidelines of
Hospice/Homecare.
Provides spiritual support or visits at the time of death as
assessed by patient/family need.
Will support the admission / consent process in collaboration with
the inter-disciplinary team in the explanation of hospice benefits
to the patient and families at leadership request.
Supports bereavement care plan to surviving family members for up
to 13 months after patient dies; including phone support, in home
visitations, bereavement support groups and memorial. Chaplains
assist with funeral services for deceased patients when requested
and as scheduling allows.
Will vary schedule in collaboration with leadership to accommodate
need for 24-hour coverage.
Basic Qualifications:
Experience
Minimum of one (1) year of experience as a Clinical
Chaplain/Spiritual Counselor in a Hospital, Ambulatory, Home
Health, Palliative Care or Hospice setting required.
Education
Masters Degree in Divinity, Theology or related field from an
accredited Seminary, College or University required. Minimum of
four (4) units of Clinical Pastoral Education from an ACPE
accredited program (ACPE is the CPE program accredited by the U.S.
Department of Education).
License, Certification, Registration
Board Certified Chaplain Certification from Association of
Professional Chaplains OR National Association of Catholic
Chaplains Certification OR National Association of Jewish Chaplains
Certified Member
Driver's License (California)
Basic Life Support
Additional Requirements:
Must be able to serve & support people of all religions, world
views, and spiritual perspectives.Maintains adequate automobile
liability insurance as required by Hospice Program policy.Meet
Medical Center/Homecare requirements for health appraisal and
annual PPD testing.Behaves in a courteous, professional manner with
patients, staff and health care professionals and maintains patient
confidentiality.Appropriate age specific competencies to be
successfully completed by end of orientation: Infant, Toddler,
Child, Adolescent, Adult and Geriatric.Conveys a sense of maturity
and sensitivity with good listening skills as evident on
interviewing.Ability to prioritize and manage multiple tasks and
crisis situations.Demonstrated excellent reading, writing and
verbal communication skills.Ability to recognize urgent patient
needs and how to report it.Must be able to work in a
Labor/Management Partnership environment.
Preferred Qualifications:
Two (2) or more years of experience as a Clinical Chaplain/
Spiritual Counselor in a Hospital, Home Health, Palliative or
Hospice Setting.PhD, DMin, ThD or EdD from an accredited Seminary,
College or University. Certificates specializing in Palliative or
Hospice Care.
PrimaryLocation : California,Tustin,Tustin Home Health
HoursPerWeek : 20
Shift : Day
Workdays : Sun, Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat
WorkingHoursStart : 08:30 AM
WorkingHoursEnd : 05:00 PM
Job Schedule : Part-time
Job Type : Standard
Employee Status : Regular
Employee Group/Union Affiliation : NUE-SCAL-01-NUE-Non Union
Employee
Job Level : Individual Contributor
Job Category : Behavioral Health, Social Services & Spiritual
Care
Department : Tustin Executive Center - Hospice - Internal - Other -
0801
Travel : Yes, 75 % of the Time
Kaiser Permanente is an equal opportunity employer committed to a
diverse and inclusive workforce. Applicants will receive
consideration for employment without regard to race, color,
religion, sex (including pregnancy), age, sexual orientation,
national origin, marital status, parental status, ancestry,
disability, gender identity, veteran status, genetic information,
other distinguishing characteristics of diversity and inclusion, or
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