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Job Description:

Hospice chaplains provide spiritual and emotional care during end-of-life, supporting patients as well as their families and caregivers. As part of the interdisciplinary team, chaplains use evidence-based practices to guide meaning-making, grief, and decision-making in alignment with CMS hospice guidelines.

Essential** **Functions

+ Provides spiritual and emotional support to patients and families facing terminal illness, including grief counseling, legacy work, and end-of-life decision support.

+ Develops, implements, and documents spiritual assessments, interventions, outcomes, and individualized plans of care, and participates as a member of the interdisciplinary hospice team to ensure whole-person care.

+ Participates in weekly interdisciplinary team meetings as required by CMS, collaborating with medical and psychosocial staff to integrate spiritual care into the overall hospice plan.

+ Responds to caseload assignments and referrals, initiating pastoral visits regardless of religious affiliation, and offering appropriate spiritual care based on patient and family needs.

+ Assists patients and families with resources for transition, bereavement, and loss, while identifying and referring ethical concerns appropriately.

+ Provides caregiver support for grief, moral distress, vicarious trauma, and compassion fatigue.

+ Appropriately and professionally documents all spiritual care activities in the electronic medical record in accordance with CMS and organizational standards and may participate in quarterly memorial services and veteran honoring processes.

+ Shares responsibility for on-call coverage, ensuring availability for crisis response and urgent spiritual care needs.

+ Contributes to departmental quality improvement efforts and actively engages in professional development and educational initiatives in collaboration with spiritual care leadership.

Skills

+ Empathetic Listening

+ Spiritual Assessment and Pastoral Presence

+ Grief and Bereavement Support

+ Crisis Response and Emotional Resilience

+ Interdisciplinary Collaboration

+ Ethical Sensitivity and Advance Care Planning

+ Family and Group Facilitation

+ Professional Communication

+ Documentation and Digital Competence

Physical Requirements:

Required** **Qualifications

+ 1 unit of Accredited Clinical Pastoral Education meeting approval of NACC/APC BCCicompleted within the first 18 months of hire

+ High School Diploma or equivalent

+ One year of relevant spiritual care experience

+ Documentation from ecclesial judicatory body of current endorsement and/or reference prescribed in accordance with applicant’s spiritual/faith tradition (received or reaffirmed within the last 12 months) articulating current endorsement/authorization for hospital chaplaincy ministry and applicant’s good standing with endorsing/authorizing body. The letter must be mailed, emailed, or faxed directly from the endorsing/recommending organization. Faith groups must be recognized by the Department of Defense (Armed Forces chaplains Board) or previously reviewed and approved by the BCCi, If not, approval of documentation of authorization/endorsement must come from Intermountain Peaks Mission office regarding a review of the faith group.

Preferred Qualifications

+ Bachelor’s Degree (accredited)

+ Completion of Accredited Graduate Theological Degree (MDiv or Equivalent)

+ Two or more units of Accredited Clinical Pastoral Educationmeeting approval of NACC/APC BCCi

Physical Requirements

+ Ongoing need for employee to see and read information, labels, documents, monitors, identify equipment and supplies, and be able to assess customer needs.

+ Frequent interactions with providers, colleagues, customers, patients/clients and visitors that require employee to verbally communicate as well as hear and understand spoken information, needs, and issues quickly and accurately.

+ Manual dexterity of hands and fingers to manipulate complex and delicate supplies and equipment with precision and accuracy. This includes frequent computer use for typing, accessing needed information, etc.

+ For roles requiring driving: Expected to drive a vehicle which requires sitting, seeing and reading signs, traffic signals, and other vehicles.

Location:

Home Health and Hospice - St George

Work City:

St George

Work State:

Utah

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40

The hourly range for this position is listed below. Actual hourly rate dependent upon experience.

$25.02 - $39.41

We care about your well-being – mind, body, and spirit – which is why we provide our caregivers a generous benefits package that covers a wide range of programs to foster a sustainable culture of wellness that encompasses living healthy, happy, secure, connected, and engaged.

Learn more about our comprehensive benefits package here (https://intermountainhealthcare.org/careers/benefits) .

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