Job Abstract

To provide spiritual support and counseling to home care patients, families and staff in a culturally inclusive manner. Home Care is defined as Home Health, Hospice, Home Palliative or any future at home service offerings as prescribed by KP. The Chaplain is a member of the interdisciplinary patient care team, participates in patient care planning and documents all pertinent interventions in the patient care record using established charting methodologies.

• Administrative Support:


• Participates in Quality Assurance Activities to include but not limited to committees for Patient Satisfaction Scores, QI Projects, UBT, etc. as requested or in collaboration with agency leadership.


• May serve on Committees and work in collaboration with committees such as Bioethics, EAP, LCP, ELOA.


• Conducts In-services and CEU programs to improve Integrated Model of Care to include but not limited to New Employee Orientation and Interdisciplinary Meetings.


• Provides Staff support to maintain Spiritual Resilience in HealthCare to include but not limited to IDG & All Staff reflections, speakers and rituals.


• Provides faith/ value-based rites/rituals and maintains collaboration with Community Clergy to ensure support to staff, patients and families for religious specific spiritual care needs.


• Acts as a consult to community liaisons faith leaders regarding serving in a HealthCare setting as appropriate for collaboration in meeting homecare patient needs.


• Provides spiritual support and spiritual counseling to staff members such as but not limited to, de-briefs, complex grief as requested by leadership.


• Maintains compliance with the Standards of Practice for Professional Chaplains and demonstrates Common Qualifications and Competencies for Professional Chaplaincyas defined by the APC (Association of Professional Chaplains).


• Attends education programs to assist in improving skills related to provision of homecare services.


• Other duties as assigned.


• Direct Patient Care:


• Provides spiritual support and counseling to home care patients, families and staff in a culturally competent manner that upholds the Kaiser Permanente Principles of Responsibility.


• Clinical Chaplain is a member of the interdisciplinary patient care team, using evidence-based outcome-oriented assessment tools to participate in creating patient care plan that includes acuity mapping to define frequency of visits/duration, documents interventions/outcomes and meets the TJC/regulatory guidelines of Hospice/Homecare.


• Provides spiritual support or visits at the time of death as assessed by patient/family need.


• Will support the admission / consent process in collaboration with the inter-disciplinary team in the explanation of hospice benefits to the patient and families at leadership request.


• Supports bereavement care plan to surviving family members for up to 13 months after patient dies; including phone support, in home visitations, bereavement support groups and memorial. Chaplains assist with funeral services for deceased patients when requested and as scheduling allows.


• Will vary schedule in collaboration with leadership to accommodate need for 24-hour coverage.