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Hospice & Palliative Care Chaplain
Mental health is an essential component of total health. As mental health professionals, we’re on the front lines every day, using the latest advances to help those in need. If you share our passion for care and our commitment to helping those around us, you’ll have the resources you need to make a real difference. Our services include adult and child therapy as well as help with addiction and eating disorders.
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Job Type:Standard
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Job Level:Entry Level
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Travel:Yes, 100 % of the Time
Success Profile
These are the traits of the most successful members of our behavioral health team.
- Adaptable
- Compassionate
- Good listener
- Proactive
- Results Driven
- Versatile
Benefits
Our compensation and benefits are designed to help you and your family stay healthy and thrive in and beyond work.
Our Culture
We offer a mental health environment that's unique both in the way we treat our patients and in the way we support our health care professionals. Here, we practice evidence-based care in a team setting that’s focused on the needs of the individual, the family and the population as a whole. This gives your patients the opportunity to work towards achieving their physical, mental, and behavioral health goals. On our teams, we hold social justice as a shared value and are committed to addressing and eliminating stigma associated with mental health and addiction. Working as part of a team also helps support your own career growth while you provide high-quality strengths-based, brief, solution-focused, and episodic mental health care.
Hear From Our People
Aaron
Psychiatric Social Worker
Kaiser Permanente has been an excellent platform for me to grow as a professional. The organization has demonstrated its commitment to the continued growth of its employees through the training it offers and encourages. I’ve always resonated with the organization’s integrated approach to health care, and its recognition of how essential good mental health is to a person’s overall well-being.
Breeza
Licensed Certified Social Worker
I would recommend and do recommend workingfor Kaiser Permanente. It’s a professional, clean,friendly, fast-paced environment and there is a real trustand respect for clinical staff no matter what role weserve. I love feeling valued and heard and am thankful tohave found an environment that providesthat.
Janice
Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist
This is the best place to work because ofthe commitment to the total health of our members, thework/life balance, the possibilities to use clinical skillsin a variety of capacities within the organization andopportunities for personal and professional growth. Asemployees of Kaiser Permanente, we all have a voice and areencouraged to use it.
Gabriela
Clinical Program Manager
At Kaiser Permanente, I have opportunities to learn and work in a professional setting with people who are passionate about patient care. I love my career as a therapist and now as a manager! I really enjoy helping others and learning new interventions and modalities. These ensure my personal and professional growth.
Laura
Psychotherapist
Kaiser Permanente is a health care leader who sets trends and makes a difference in industry practices and protocols. I like the extraordinary resources available to do my job, the servant leadership of my manager and director, and the high standard of business and clinical ethics.
Amie
PsyD, Clinical Psychologist
We’re an innovative, vision-forwardcompany. While Integrative-Care models are relatively new,we’ve been on the frontlines of building out ahigh-functioning integrated team for over a decade. Withinthis model of care, we’re pushed to think out of the boxwhen it comes to patient care, be collaborative, andsucceed in a fast-paced environment.
Carol
PhD, Licensed Certified Social Worker – Clinical
Kaiser Permanente demonstrates itscommitment to their employees’, has a top-notch salary andcompensation package, and has a leadership body that iswell trained and supportive. As a Clinician and a Manager,I am very impressed with our commitment to qualityoutcomes. I have truly found a home here and would behonored for Kaiser Permanente to be my last professionalstop in my career.
Michael
PsyD, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Psych Social Worker
Kaiser Permanente, in my opinion, is agreat mix of professional, friendly and fast-paced. Theyallow me to be who I am and let me have a voice. I lovebeing a therapist and I’m very proud and excited about theGender Assessments and transgender group work beingconducted. I’m helping the LGBT community and making thispopulation feel comfortable throughout their care journey.Kaiser Permanente is a breath of fresh air to me in mywork.
Kashonda
Psychotherapist
I appreciate how Kaiser Permanente strivesto reflect inclusivity and representation throughout theorganization. I’m excited about an internal cliniccomprised of African American clinicians dedicated tosupporting the health needs of the African diaspora. I’mproud to be part of committees that intentionally promoteequity, inclusion and diversity. These things combined withthe benefits, opportunities and people make KaiserPermanente a great place to work.
Hospice & Palliative Care Chaplain
- Directly provide spiritual support and counseling services through home visits, long-term care facility visits, hospital visits, clinic visits, telephone calls, and virtual visits performing both individual and group counseling.
- Assure the assessment of the spiritual needs, issues, concerns of hospice and palliative care patients and families. Assure assessments are clearly documented, appropriate interventions planned, implemented and evaluated for effectiveness.
- Participates with the interdisciplinary team in a manner that results in effective, collaborative care planning.
- Coordinate the provision of spiritual care to seriously and terminally ill patients and their families utilizing personal, community and volunteer resources.
- Assure staff and volunteer competency in the role of spiritual care within the interdisciplinary team and how to perform spiritual screening of patients and families. Provide and facilitate the training and education of staff and volunteers through their own, departmental and community resources.
- Oversee the development and coordination of spiritual care resources including but not limited to literature, support groups, mentors/consultants, community resources, educational presentations, rituals, program events including memorial services, and alternative care.
- Measure and monitor the quantity and quality of spiritual care services provided including but not limited to patient and family satisfaction, outcomes, and utilization of services. Develop and implement performance improvement measures to meet patient and program goals.
- May provide bereavement support to surviving bereaved after a patient dies; including phone support, in-home or care facility visitations, bereavement support groups and assisting with memorial or funeral services when requested by family as scheduling allows.
- Assure professional competency through maintaining working knowledge of current regulations and standards of practice related to hospice, palliative care, and chaplaincy in a medical setting.
- Perform other duties as requested.
- Minimum two (2) years of experience providing spiritual care services in a health care setting.
- Minimum one (1) year of professional experience providing services to patients with serious or terminal illnesses.
- Masters degree in theology, divinity, pastoral care, philosophy or related discipline.
- Completion of at least four units of Clinical Pastoral Education Program (CPE).
- Driver's License (from any state) required at hire
- Basic Life Support required at hire
- Completion of at least four units of Clinical Pastoral Education Program (CPE).
- Thorough knowledge of the spiritual, emotional and general care needs of patents and their families at the end of life.
- Proficiency in the delivery of emotional, spiritual, grief counseling and support group services with individuals and groups at the end of life and in the grief process.
- Demonstrates customer-focused service skills.
- Demonstrates skill in leading groups and teams.
- Demonstrates skill in public speaking.
- Ability to participate collaboratively within an interdisciplinary team.
- Well-developed peer mentoring and development skills. Ability to assist and mentor clinicians and volunteers in the provision of emotional/spiritual support in their daily practice.
- Excellent listening and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to document assessments, care delivered; and to coordinate both clearly and concisely using a laptop computer.
- Ability to provide quality counseling services for patients/families at end of life with respect and sensitivity to individual beliefs, coping mechanisms, goals, etc.
- Excellent time management skills.
- Ability to meet department visit productivity requirements.
- Ability to document clinical care clearly and concisely in an electronic medical record.
- Minimum three (3) years of service within a health care setting as a chaplain, especially within a hospice or palliative care setting.
- Minimum two (2) years of working as a member of an interdisciplinary team.
- Board certified Pastoral Counselor.
Notes:
- Per diem, weekdays, daytime
- Shifts/hours/working days may vary
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