Hospice Spiritual Care Counselor
Residential Home Health and Hospice Northbrook, IllinoisLocation Northbrook, Illinois
Company Residential Home Health and Hospice
Job Type Full time
Date posted 10/29/2024
Job Description
It’s Just Better Here. We’re hiring for a Hospice Spiritual Care Counselor to join our dynamic team. Residential Home Health and Hospice is a nationally recognized leader in home health and hospice for over 20 years and have been named a Top Workplace 10 years in a row. We have immediate openings, call 888-444-0454
Hospice Spiritual Care Counselor Responsibilities:
Provide spiritual care services to patients and families/caregivers, either directly or through coordination of care with other spiritual counselors.
- Ensure spiritual assessment of patients and families/caregivers in the hospice program and that appropriate services are rendered in a timely manner
- Facilitate the development of individualized plans of care by participating in the comprehensive assessment to meet identified spiritual needs
- Provide direct spiritual care to patients and families/caregivers
- Serve as liaison and support to community chaplains and spiritual care counselors
- Maintain records of spiritual care services utilization and related activities for quality assurance, program development, and policies and procedures review and revision
- Document direct services and ongoing communication with community chaplains and spiritual counselors
- Attend patient care conference and interdisciplinary group meetings as a member of the interdisciplinary group
- Provide consultation, education, and support to the interdisciplinary group on spiritual care
- Recruit community chaplains, spiritual care 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
- Provide for funeral or memorial services for patients as requested
- Plan periodic memorial services to meet the needs of personnel, volunteers, and community clergy/spiritual counselors working with the hospice team
- Actively participate with quality assessment performance improvement teams and activities
- Participate in on-call duties as defined by on-call policy
- Comply with Company’s Core Values and Core Competencies
- Perform other duties as assigned by supervisor
Hospice Spiritual Care Counselor Qualifications:
- Graduate of accredited seminary or school of theology (BD, MDiv or equivalent theological degree) preferred
- Experience working with death and dying, individuals/family/caregiver
- Knowledge of and commitment to hospice philosophy of care
- Hospice experience preferred
- Ability to work as member of interdisciplinary group
- Comfort in an interfaith setting
- Ability to accept different lifestyles, cultures, beliefs, and values
- Ability to network with community clergy and congregations
NOTICE: Successful completion of a drug screen prior to employment is part of our background process, which includes medical and recreational marijuana.
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Jennifer Quinones Hospice Nurse
"The support from staff, supervisors, and Medical Directors is great. The education is top notch, too. They always want to give us more, so we can be the best there is. I tell people I can't believe how much time I wasted before coming to work here!"
Wendy Bongero Sr. Vice President of Operations, Hospice
“Leaders who don’t listen to the people on their teams are blowing a huge opportunity. No one knows better than the clinicians what our patients need.”
Carrie Dodge Sales
Residential’s positive culture has given me the confidence to expand my skill set and grow in my career.