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Description: Looking for an employer who allows you flexible scheduling and the opportunity to change your patients' lives? Benefits for our Chaplain: · Paid time off · Life and disability insurance · Mileage Reimbursement at standard IRS rate of $.67/mile. This is non-taxable · Team environment · Discounted gym membership What We Offer our Hospice Nurses: · Pay Range: $25.00 to $33.44/hour, commensurate with experience. · Great Team Environment Area of Service: Glenwood Springs and surrounding areas Hourly/Non-Exempt Job Summary The Chaplain's primary responsibility is to provide emotional and spiritual counseling to patients and their families. Additionally, chaplains provide bereavement services, including phone calls, visits and memorial services, to family members upon the death of a patient. Essential Functions of the Job · Provides a constant reminder to hospice workers that beyond the physical and emotional support we give, our patients may desire to have spiritual resources of their choosing. · Acts as a spiritual resource to team members and assist them in their growth or in dealing with their grief. · Documents the patient/family's religious/spiritual needs and resources on the intake/assessment form and to complete progress notes in the patient's chart following each contact. · Provides, when invited, direct spiritual counsel, prayer and sacraments to patients and their families. Interfaces with the patient/families' own clergyman, rabbi or their own congregation, if requested · Provides encouragement to patients and families to make arrangements in advance regarding the funeral, wills, requests, obituaries and interment, and to be available to officiate at funeral services if requested - Attends scheduled IDG meetings, Quality Improvement Meetings; staff meetings and all other applicable meetings and in-services. - Coordinates and administers bereavement services. We are an equal opportunity employer and prohibit discrimination/harassment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. Requirements: Ordained and endorsed minister, priest, rabbi or a member of a religious order or lay person with certified training in pastoral care Personal/professional experience working with death and dying Familiar/comfortable working with varied spiritual/religious practices Current CPR verification. Personal vehicle for on-the-job transportation in all road and weather conditions, climate Provide proof of liability insurance on personal vehicle Employment is contingent upon successfully passing a fingerprint-based criminal history background check through the Colorado Bureau of Investigation Ability to operate a computer and / or a tablet PC, and proficiency with Windows-based software programs, is required. PI4934f6645d8c-25448-34883372

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