Chaplains

A Hospice chaplain assures the provision of spiritual care to patients and their families either directly or in co-ordination with other spiritual counselors.

Their responsibilities will include:

• Direct Spiritual care to patients and their care givers
• Documents direct services and ongoing communication
• Accepts and performs other duties and responsibilities as needed
• Provide direct pastoral non-denominational care to patients and families including spiritual assessment, crisis intervention, counseling and linkage with spiritual resources.
• Maintain records of spiritual care services utilization and related activities for quality assurance, program development and policy and procedure review and revision.