Branch Chaplain

Overview:
HarmonyCares is one of the nation’s largest home-based primary care practices. HarmonyCares is a family of companies all dedicated to providing high-quality, coordinated health care in the home. This includes HarmonyCares, HarmonyCares Medical Group, HarmonyCares Home Health and HarmonyCares Hospice.

**Our Mission** - To bring personalized, quality-based healthcare to the home of patients who have difficult accessing care.

**Our Shared Vision** - Every patient deserves access to quality healthcare.

**Our Values** - The way we care is our legacy. Every interaction counts. Go the extra mile. Empower and support each other.

**Why You Should Want to Work with Us**
- Health, Dental, Vision, Disability & Life Insurance, and much more
- 401K Retirement Plan (with company match)
- Tuition, Professional License and Certification Reimbursement
- Paid Time Off, Holidays and Volunteer Time
- Paid Orientation and Training
- Home Hospice locations in 7 states
- Great Place to Work Certified

**Responsibilities**:
The Hospice Branch Chaplain is a qualified individual that provides guidance and support to other team members to ensure the spiritual needs and concerns of the hospice patients and family are met via the development of a patient and family’s plan of care.

**Essential Duties and Responsibilities**
- Provide spiritual and bereavement counseling to the hospice patients and family and assist the patient and family in evaluating his/her spiritual and bereavement needs
- Be an active participant in interdisciplinary group meetings and maintain an open communication with all members of the interdisciplinary group
- Maintain strict patient confidentiality
- Facilitates connection to spiritual resources in the community as needed
- Preside over funeral services as requested by the family
- Be responsible to ensure the use of the 4Ms (What Matters to the patient, Medications, Mentation, and Mobility) and provide Age-Friendly Care

Qualifications:
**Required Knowledge, Skills and Experience**
- Bachelor’s degree in religious studies, social work, psychology, counseling, pastoral education, or related field
- Must maintain a valid driver’s license and good driving record
- At least one (1) year experience within hospice
- Documented evidence of training and experience in dealing with grief and loss counseling
- Be a recognized spiritual leader known throughout the community
- Be able to affirm the religious and spiritual freedom of all persons and refrain from imposing doctrinal positions or spiritual practices on persons whom they encounter in their professional role as chaplain
- Be available at all times during agency operating hours or as needs arise
- Has the mental and physical health necessary to meet the demands of the position
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Strong leadership and organizational skills

**Preferred Knowledge, Skills and Experience**
- Master’s degree
- Completion of at least 1 Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) unit
- Certified in Thanatology: Death, Dying and Bereavement (CT), through ADEC
- Two years of experience with grief and loss counseling
- Electronic Medical Records experience