Chaplain Staff

Intermountain Health

6d • Onsite

About The Position

Independently provides spiritual care and emotional support, integrating into the care team to address complex needs. Supports patients and families through crises and transitions. This role involves 4x6 hour shifts, with variable days/nights including weekends. The Chaplain Staff member will assist patients, families, and visitors in coping with psychological, social, emotional, and spiritual needs during times of illness, trauma, and stress. They will develop, implement, and document spiritual assessments, interventions, and outcomes, participating as a member of interdisciplinary teams to provide whole-person care. Responsibilities include participating in multidisciplinary patient rounds, care conferences, ethics consultations, and ethics triage calls. The role requires responding to crisis situations such as resuscitations, trauma, rapid response, death, BEST and Security alerts, providing pager coverage as needed. Additionally, the Chaplain Staff will respond to referrals for patient and family visits, initiate pastoral visits as appropriate, and provide caregiver support for grief, moral distress, vicarious trauma, and compassion fatigue. They will promote the mission, vision, and values of Intermountain Health, assist in departmental quality improvement and strategy deployment, and help patients and families with advance directives, transition, bereavement, and loss resources. Documentation in the electronic medical record and other departmental systems is required, as is participation in hospital-wide committees, potentially leading projects and initiatives.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree (accredited)
• Completion of 2 units of Clinical Pastoral Education meeting approval of NACC/APC BCCi
• Completion of four units of Clinical Pastoral Education meeting approval of NACC/APC BCCi completed within 2 years of hire
• 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 the 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 Intermountain Peaks Mission office regarding a review of the faith group.
• Two or more years of health care chaplaincy experience

Nice To Haves

• Completion of Accredited Graduate Theological Degree (MDiv or Equivalent)
• Completion of 4 or more units of Clinical Pastoral Education meeting approval of NACC/APC BCCi
• Three or more years of relevant spiritual care experience in a hospital setting.

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.
• Develops, implements, and documents spiritual assessment, interventions, and outcomes and participates as a member of interdisciplinary teams to provide whole person care.
• Participates in multidisciplinary patient rounds, care conferences, ethics consultations and ethics triage call as directed by care site.
• 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.
• Responds to referrals to visit patients and/or their families regardless of religious affiliation, and initiates pastoral visits, as appropriate.
• Provides caregiver support for grief, moral distress, vicarious trauma and compassion fatigue.
• Promotes mission, vision, and values of Intermountain Health.
• Assists with the development of the department's plan for continuous quality improvement and strategy deployment model.
• Assists patients and families with advance directives and provides resources for transition, bereavement, and loss.
• Appropriately and professionally documents in the electronic medical record and other departmental, site or system-based data tracking.
• Participates in hospital wide committees.
• May lead specific committee projects and initiatives.

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.
• PEAK program supports caregivers in the pursuit of their education goals and career aspirations by providing up-front tuition coverage paid directly to the academic institution.
• The program offers 100+ learning options to choose from, including undergraduate studies, high school diplomas, and professional skills and certificates.
• Caregivers are eligible to participate in PEAK on day 1 of employment.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Career Level: Mid Level