Chaplain Sr

Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago•Chicago, IL

23h•Onsite

About The Position

Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago provides superior pediatric care, offering the latest benefits and innovations in medical technology, research, and family-friendly design. As the largest pediatric provider in the region with a 140-year legacy of excellence, the hospital focuses on kids and their families. It is ranked in all 10 specialties by the U.S. News & World Report. The Chaplain Sr collaborates to coordinate service delivery with families and team members, making necessary referrals and providing pastoral care rounds and visits in assigned clinical areas. The role involves identifying, assessing, and responding to the age-specific developmental, psychosocial, cultural, and spiritual needs of children and families, with a particular focus on emotional and spiritual support during illness, crisis, and grief. This includes planning and leading worship or special services, developing trusting relationships with families, and providing timely intervention in emergency situations. The Chaplain Sr also documents care, communicates with the healthcare team, advocates for child and family needs, participates in interdisciplinary rounds, and provides leadership in family services. Administrative and project management duties, including orienting and supervising volunteers and precepting students, maintaining records, and assisting with the hospital-wide pastoral care intake and on-call systems, are also part of the role. The position adheres to service principles with a customer service focus on innovation, service excellence, and teamwork.

Requirements

Master of Divinity or other graduate pastoral care or religion degree or equivalent from a school accredited by the Association of Theological schools or one of the regional Associations of Colleges and Schools
Four quarters of clinical pastoral education or equivalent experience
Endorsement for ministry by religious group with which chaplain is affiliated (i.e., ordination, denominational endorsement)
Certification by professional chaplains' endorsing body (recognized by COMISS); either meets or is actively pursuing requirements for endorsement and certification
Pastoral care experience in acute care setting or with children and their families, or equivalent
Ability to think proactively, acts creatively, and takes initiative appropriately
Excellent communication, critical-thinking, and interpersonal skills
Demonstrated ability to work as a part of multiple teams

Nice To Haves

Spanish language abilities and skills strongly preferred

Responsibilities

Collaborates to coordinate service delivery with families and appropriate team members across the continuum.
Makes necessary referrals to other team members and/or community resources.
Makes pastoral care rounds and visits in assigned clinical areas.
Attends patient care rounds in assigned areas.
Identifies, assesses, and responds to child/family needs; includes in this process (identification, assessment, response) age-specific developmental needs, psychosocial needs, cultural needs, and spiritual needs.
Particularly focuses on the emotional and spiritual needs of patients and families.
Provides assistance in coping with illness, spiritual/religious resources; ritual/worship; communication with staff regarding spiritual/cultural needs and practices; support in times of special stress or crisis; grief support; and linkage with own religious group or spiritual tradition.
Includes the planning and leading of worship or other special services, including memorial services, in the hospital and elsewhere.
Develops relationships with families that are caring, trusting, reliable, and beneficial.
Utilizes these relationships in providing appropriate spiritual care.
Provides timely and effective intervention for patients and families in emergency/crisis situations such as codes, traumas, deterioration of patent’s health status, as well as other situations deemed emergent by the patient, family, or healthcare team.
Offers emotional, spiritual, and grief support to the families of dying and deceased patients and assists these families with necessary hospital protocols.
Documents in a thorough and timely manner in accordance with professional standards (see assessment/documentation policies).
Communicates with members of the health care team, through formal and informal means of transmitting information, in order to provide optimal care of patients and families.
Communicates through both conveying and responding to pertinent information.
Informs health care team of the role of faith community and/or other factors impacting the spiritual and emotional status of a patient and family.
Maintains relationships that facilitate teamwork and referrals.
Serves as professional liaison with assigned teams.
Advocates for and addresses the spiritual/psychosocial/developmental needs of the child and family throughout the continuum of care.
Participates regularly in the health care team’s interdisciplinary rounds.
Participates in the team's group problem-solving and program planning.
Provides leadership for the team in the delivery of family services, particularly pastoral care.
Advocates for the effective utilization of Family Services.
Leads the team and other family service professionals in establishing family services goals for team care delivery.
Recognizes that response to the customer and the changing environment may involve going beyond the confines of the traditional job description.
Maintains an environment that reflects pride and ownership and shows a willingness to care for the surroundings.
Creates an impression that reflects pride in job position and person.
Performs administrative and project management duties, as assigned.
May orient and supervise pastoral care volunteers.
May precept pastoral care students.
Maintains appropriate records and statistics.
Participates in hospital-wide pastoral care intake system.
Assists with hospital-wide, in-house pastoral care on-call system as needed.
Maintains and enhances pastoral care community resource lists for staff use.
Performs job functions adhering to service principles with customer service focus of innovation, service excellence and teamwork to provide the highest quality care and service to our patients, families, co-workers and others.

Benefits

Medical, dental and vision insurance
Employer paid group term life and disability
Employer contribution toward Health Savings Account
Flexible Spending Accounts
Paid Time Off (PTO)
Paid Holidays
Paid Parental Leave
403(b) with a 5% employer match
Various voluntary benefits: Supplemental Life, AD&D and Disability
Critical Illness, Accident and Hospital Indemnity coverage
Tuition assistance
Student loan servicing and support
Adoption benefits
Backup Childcare and Eldercare
Employee Assistance Program, and other specialized behavioral health services and resources for employees and family members
Discount on services at Lurie Children’s facilities
Discount purchasing program