Part Time Hospice Chaplain-Days-Princeton-Penn Medicine

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.

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.

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• 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.

• 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.

• Clinical pastoral educators
• Driver's License (Required)
• Car Insurance (Required)

• Master of Arts or Science (Required)
• Education Specialization:
  
  Divinity, Pastoral Theology, and/or Counseling Equivalent
  
  Experience:
• CPE Experience (4 units) preferred
• 1+ years Experience with in a healthcare environment preferred
• Experience in hospice or home care setting preferred
• Oncology, geriatric, or hospital…