• Conduct spiritual assessments and facilitate creation of interdisciplinary care plans, and provide direct, personalized, need-based spiritual and emotional care and advocacy for an average caseload of 30 patients and for their loved ones, families, and agency and hospital staff.• Participate in all regular interdisciplinary team meetings and facility care plan meetings.• Able to communicate and relate in a professional manner with physicians and with facility and agency leadership and staff. • Provide consultation regarding spiritual matters to interdisciplinary team members, physicians, and facility staff. • Arrange, officiate and participate in funerals and memorial services as requested. • Participate in on-call rotation as scheduled. • Document all patient care in electronic medical record.• Orient new employees to the roles and responsibilities of a hospice chaplain.

• Provide spiritual and emotional care for patients, families, and hospital staff.• Provide on-site overnight and 24-hour on-call coverage as scheduled. • Serve as designated chaplain on cardiac transplant team. • Conduct spiritual assessments.• Document all patient care in electronic medical record.• Co-facilitate a six-week grief support group.• Facilitate worship and preach regularly at Sunday services and in periodic memorial and interfaith services. • Prepared and conducted workshop on patient care from a family systems perspective.• Mentor incoming chaplain interns.• Designed and conducted research study to investigate the chaplain’s role in cases of inpatient elderly abuse.

• Collaborate, communicate, set priorities and organize the work of a team of 15-20 employees to provide accurate transcription of documents for submission into patients’ electronic medical records. Personally transcribed and edited these documents when necessary and maintained accuracy rate of 99%.• Set priorities for timely completion of work flow according to facility and contracted turn-around times. Adjusted staffing and care team facility assignments as necessary to achieve or surpass contracted turn-around times; achieved or surpassed contracted turn-around times for 95% of documents.• Maintained communication with team members, Regional Operations Manager, and Director of Operations to resolve delays and misunderstandings in administrative aspects of patient care.• Participated in team conference calls with departmental and regional leadership to resolve issues related to work flow, team members, and review or revise policies or procedures to maintain department efficiency.

• Preaching, designing and officiating worship services. • Provided compassionate spiritual care, education, and spiritual assessment guidance for parishioners in this 70-member congregation, including hospital visits, end-of-life circumstances, and medical emergencies. • Developed and organized, and mentored teams of ministry volunteers.• Planned and conducted several public civil rights demonstrations.• Collaborated regularly with community groups and clergy of various faiths to provide education, facilitate workshops, and co-facilitate community interfaith groups. • Conducted regular spirituality groups for persons with HIV. • Doubled worship attendance from 30 in 2004 to 70 by 2006.• Supervised and mentored two seminary student interns.• Hired and supervised an office assistant.• Conducted regular board meetings. Worked to develop skills of board members.