Spiritual Care Counselor, Hospice Home Care, Staten Island

$62,400 - $72,000/Yr

Visiting Nurse Service of New York

Full-time

Ambulatory Health Care Services

About the position

The Spiritual Care Counselor provides direct spiritual care services and counseling to hospice patients and their families, ensuring a safe, comfortable, and meaningful dying experience. This role collaborates with an inter-disciplinary group (IDG) to assess and address the spiritual and emotional needs of patients and families, while adhering to hospice standards and policies.

Responsibilities

• Implements the Spiritual Care program in accordance with CMS Conditions of Participation.
• Assesses emotional, spiritual, religious, and existential status and care needs of patients and/or their family members.
• Provides spiritual counseling and services, including crisis intervention, to meet the psycho-spiritual, religious, and existential needs of patients/families.
• Develops and updates the spiritual care component of the patient/family plan of care based on mutually acceptable goals.
• Utilizes appropriate spiritual/religious community resources and serves as a liaison between VNS Health and the community clergy.
• Documents spiritual care assessment, including signs of decline, interventions, and plans of care in EMR in collaboration with the IDG.
• Participates in weekly IDG team meetings; develops and updates treatment plans and goals as needed.
• Acts as a resource to VNS Health staff for clinical collaboration and interdisciplinary staff support.
• Assists interdisciplinary team members in understanding psycho-spiritual, religious, and existential factors related to the patient/family's quality of life.
• Assumes responsibility for continued professional growth, including attendance of in-service programs.
• Provides on-call coverage as needed.
• Travels to patients' homes and/or facilities with varying environments to deliver direct spiritual care service.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Humanities or other related fields Required.
• Master's Degree in Divinity or Theology Preferred.
• Four units of Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) Required.
• Board Certified Chaplain Preferred.
• Minimum of one year of experience as a chaplain, preferably in a hospice setting Required.
• Effective oral and interpersonal communication skills Required.
• Proficiency in personal computer operations including MS Office applications Required.
• Valid driver's license may be required, as determined by operational/regional needs.

Nice-to-haves

• Bilingual skills may be required, as determined by operational needs.

Benefits

• Compensation range: $62,400.00 - $72,000.00 Annual