Job Description
Faith Community Nurse
Position: Augustana Lutheran Church is seeking a 32 hour a week Faith Community Nurse (formerly Parish Nurse) to plan and coordinate health ministry within the congregation and the community it serves by fostering health promotion, healing, and caring. The goal of the congregation’s health ministry program is to assist individuals, groups, and communities in moving toward wholeness in spirit, body, and mind.
Major Responsibilities:
- Responds to health-related concerns of parishioners referred by individuals, families, and church staff by making visits to home, hospital, and other health institutions to evaluate needs, provide support, and assist in making plans for continuous care.
- Facilitate weekly Care Team meetings.
- Produce and maintain prayer request list for Sundays and ongoing prayer chain.
- Coordinate the Home Communion Visitor Ministry.
- Provide or coordinate health promotion and health education activities across the life span, highlighting relationships among lifestyle, faith, and well-being.
- Integrate faith and health in providing or referring people for individual health counseling, support groups, and healing prayer services.
- Refer individuals and families to appropriate community resources.
- Conduct and document critical elements of professional practice in compliance with state regulatory agencies and scope of practice standards for faith community nursing.
- Recruit, coordinate, and prepare licensed and unlicensed volunteers to assist in carrying out health ministry initiatives, respecting confidentiality.
- Facilitate special events to provide access to health services such as blood drives, health screenings, foot care and exercises classes.
- Partner with the Health Ministry to support congregational priorities such as Augustana’s community garden, knitting ministries, E4 Mental Health, 60 plus, etc.
- Collaborate with other Augustana ministries to coordinate outreach programs and opportunities for Augustana members and the surrounding community.
- Promote the advancement of faith community nursing through membership, mentorship, and participation in professional organizations.
- Minimum Requirement of 2 Sunday Mornings per month to include Health Ministry Sunday to perform blood pressures and be available as a resource to the congregation.
Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:
- Demonstrates broad-based clinical knowledge of health and illness.
- Expertise in community health, family dynamics, principles of wellness, and care management.
- Committed to professional growth and development.
- Concerned with the development and wellbeing of all age groups.
- Spiritual maturity in personal faith journey and active church member.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Proficient in computer applications and Internet usage.
- Ability to problem solve objectively and independently.
- Familiarity with end-of-life and health insurance issues.
- Demonstrates energy, excitement, and passion for health ministry.
- Exhibits creativity and flexibility.
Augustana Lutheran Church is a a congregation of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), located in the Hilltop neighborhood, at 5000 East Alameda Avenue, Denver. We welcome all people and we love to meet new friends. Our mission: Celebrating God’s grace, we welcome everyone to worship Jesus, grow in faith, and go serve in the world.
We are seeking a 32 hour a week Faith Community Nurse to replace our prior nurse who retired. This person will be responsible to plan and coordinate health ministry within the congregation and the community it serves by fostering health promotion, healing, and caring. The goal of the congregation’s health ministry program is to assist individuals, groups, and communities in moving toward wholeness in spirit, body, and mind.
Job Tags
Sunday, Day shift,