Hospice Chaplain

Abode Hospice and Home Health

Provide Comfort and Support as a Hospice Chaplain

At Abode, our Hospice Chaplains play a vital role in offering compassionate emotional and spiritual care to patients and their families during some of life's most challenging times. As a Hospice Chaplain, you will provide personalized spiritual guidance, counseling, and support, helping individuals find peace, comfort, and meaning. Whether performing religious rituals, offering emotional comfort during moments of crisis, or promoting spiritual well-being, you will be a source of strength for patients and families.

In this role, you will work with people from all faiths and belief systems, honoring and respecting their diverse needs. Your presence will make a profound, positive impact, helping to create a compassionate and supportive environment for those we serve.

If you are passionate about providing spiritual support and making a meaningful difference in people's lives, we invite you to apply today!

Our Comprehensive Benefits Include:

Medical and dental coverage
• Short- and long-term disability
• Life insurance
• Generous paid time off
• 401(k) program with company match
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Exclusive vendor discounts

• Assures spiritual assessment of patients and families/caregivers in the hospice program and appropriate services are rendered in a timely manner
• Facilitates the development of the individualized the plan of care by participating in the comprehensive assessment to meet identified spiritual needs
• Provides direct spiritual care to patients and families/caregivers
• Serves as liaison and support to community chaplains and spiritual counselors
• Maintains records of spiritual care services utilization and related activities for quality assurance, program development, and policies and procedures review and revision
• Documents direct services and ongoing communication with community chaplains and spiritual counselors
• Attends patient care conference and interdisciplinary group meetings as a member of the interdisciplinary group
• Provides consultation, education, and support to the interdisciplinary group on spiritual care
• Recruits community chaplains, spiritual 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
• Provides for funeral or memorial services for patients as requested
• Plans periodic memorial services to meet the needs of personnel, volunteers, and community clergy/spiritual counselors working with the hospice team
• Assists in supervision of spiritual care volunteers when assigned to patients/ families/caregivers
• Actively participates in quality assessment performance improvement teams and activities
• Accepts and performs other related duties and responsibilities as required

• Completion or graduation from a theology or chaplaincy program. Experience working with death and dying, individuals/family/caregiver
• 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
• Knowledge of and commitment to hospice philosophy of care
• Hospice/ experience preferred