Chaplain Associate PRN

Intermountain Health • Butte-Silver Bow, MT

1d • Onsite

About The Position

The Chaplain Associate provides basic spiritual and emotional support to patients, families, and caregivers under supervision, working within a multidisciplinary team to support whole-person care. This role involves assisting patients and their families in coping with psychological, social, emotional, and spiritual needs during times of illness, trauma, and stress, while maintaining a patient-centered attitude. The associate delivers timely and sensitive spiritual care through individual and group interactions, systematically gathering data for spiritual assessment, interventions, and outcomes. They are expected to promote teamwork, assist with advance directives and end-of-life resources, provide bereavement support, and participate in multidisciplinary rounds and ethics consultations. The position also requires responding to crisis situations and participating in on-call responsibilities, including pager coverage, and contributing to continuous quality improvement efforts.

Requirements

• 1 unit of Accredited Clinical Pastoral Education meeting approval of NACC/APC BCCi, completed within the first 18 months of hire
• High School Diploma or equivalent
• Documentation from ecclesial judicatory body of current endorsement and/or reference prescribed in accordance with applicant’s spiritual/faith tradition (received or reaffirmed within the last 12 months) articulating current endorsement/authorization for hospital chaplaincy ministry and applicant’s good standing with endorsing/authorizing body. The letter must be mailed, emailed, or faxed directly from an endorsing/recommending organization. Faith groups must be recognized by the Department of Defense (Armed Forces chaplains Board) or previously reviewed and approved by the BCCi. If not, approval of documentation of authorization/endorsement must come from the Intermountain Peaks Mission office regarding a review of the faith group.
• One year of relevant spiritual care experience
• Knowledge and respect of the religious beliefs and practices of various faiths, groups, denominations, and philosophies.
• Ability to provide pastoral/spiritual counsel to people during periods of stress.
• Appropriate and professional documentation in the electronic medical record and other departmental, site or system-based data tracking

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor’s Degree
• Completion of Accredited Graduate Theological Degree (MDiv or Equivalent)
• Two or more units of Accredited Clinical Pastoral Education

Responsibilities

• Assists the patient and their family and/or other visitors in coping with psychological, social, emotional, and spiritual needs in times of illness, trauma and/or stress.
• Help preserve a patient-centered attitude of care.
• Provides timely and sensitive spiritual care to patients, families, caregivers, and physicians/advanced care providers via individual and group interactions.
• Systematically and intentionally gather data through patient care and interactions with family and other interdisciplinary team members to provide whole person care, and document ongoing spiritual assessment, interventions, and outcomes.
• Actively promotes an atmosphere of teamwork and collaboration as a member of interdisciplinary teams.
• Assists patients and families with advance directives and end-of-life resources.
• Provides resources for transition, bereavement, and loss.
• Participates in multidisciplinary patient rounds, care conferences, ethics consultations and documents, as appropriate, in patients’ electronic medical record.
• Responds to crisis situations (e.g. resuscitations, trauma, rapid response, death, BEST and Security alerts, etc.) to provide spiritual care and support, including pager coverage to meet the required hours of the care-site.
• Participates in on call responsibilities as requested.
• Assists with the development of the department’s plan for continuous quality improvement.

Benefits

• generous benefits package that covers a wide range of programs to foster a sustainable culture of wellness that encompasses living healthy, happy, secure, connected, and engaged
• comprehensive benefits package
• PEAK program (up-front tuition coverage paid directly to the academic institution, 100+ learning options including undergraduate studies, high school diplomas, professional skills and certificates)

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: High school or GED
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees