Chaplain (Palliative Care) - Fulltime - Days - Detroit

GENERAL SUMMARY:

Provide a collaborative and inclusive approach to pastoral care by ministering holistically to the spiritual needs of patients, their families, medical staff and administration. Reports to the Supervisor of Spiritual Support Services. 

• Attend daily interdisciplinary team meetings and collaborate with the interdisciplinary palliative medicine team, sharing important psycho-social, spiritual, and family dynamic concerns.
• Participate in family care conferences with interdisciplinary team.
• Help interpret spiritual distress and its effect on patient decision-making.
• Provide spiritual and emotional support to patients of diverse backgrounds.
• Develop relationships with community faith leaders and cultural brokers, building the sources of support available for specific needs
• Provide institutional leadership through spiritual care education for all disciplines
• Support end-of-life decision making and provide spiritual support during the dying process.
• Perform Advanced Care Planning conversations and document in the EMR
• Provide in the moment bereavement support
• Collaborates with palliative social workers and nurses to perform bereavement follow-up calls and connect families with hospice and other community resources for follow-up bereavement support.
• Develop self-care activities to engage the palliative medicine team and other hospital staff in self-reflection regarding their own spirituality.
• Lead debriefing sessions for the palliative medicine team and other hospital staff after a difficult patient death.
• Through structured activities and embedded in daily work, provides spiritual care education for the Palliative Care fellows, rotating learners, and team.