Chaplain PRN

Corewell Health • Grand Rapids, MI

1d • Onsite

About The Position

At the heart of exceptional healthcare is compassionate care for the whole person—body, mind, and spirit. We are looking for a caring and committed PRN Chaplain to provide spiritual and emotional support to patients, families, and team members whenever the need arises. This flexible role offers a unique opportunity to serve alongside healthcare professionals, offering comfort, guidance, bereavement support, and faith-based care that brings hope, healing, and peace during some of life’s most significant moments.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent in Ministry, Religion, Theology or other approved pre-seminary concentration
• Satisfactory completion of one (1) unit of Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) rewarded from an approved CPE provider (ex. ACPE, CPEI, CPSP, ICPT), within 1 year after hire

Nice To Haves

• 2 years of experience providing spiritual care in a hospital, agency, or congregation

Responsibilities

• Provides spiritual care, counsel, education and spiritual/emotional support to patients, families and staff members of all faiths and traditions.
• Assists with referrals to particular faith group leaders when indicated and/or requested.
• Provides spiritual care and emotional support to patients, families and staff.
• Facilitates their spiritual understanding, emotional coping and adjustment in the face of illness, injury or death.
• Identifies and engages additional spiritual providers and resources, either within or beyond our organization, when this is requested and beneficial.
• Does so in a culturally competent manner.
• Documents clearly her/his interactions with patients and families--including assessments and plans--in a manner which is useful to departmental and interdisciplinary colleagues.
• Collaborates closely with departmental colleagues in providing seamless spiritual care by receiving referrals, making following-up visits and providing hand-off reports.
• Participates in schedules with a flexibility that helps the team provide continuous coverage.
• Integrates her/his professional practice and style into assigned interdisciplinary healthcare teams in ways that enhance their overall efforts to provide excellent, whole-person care.
• Prioritizes emergent (sometimes concurrent) referrals while not losing sight of certain regular duties.
• Manages time well across successive shifts which can vary widely in their demands.
• Maintains and applies a working knowledge of medical ethics.
• Recognizes when ethical principles could or do conflict in actual cases.
• Recognizes moral distress in care givers.
• Knows how to initiate an ethics consultation.
• Able to facilitate advance care planning conversations and decision-making.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package to meet your financial, health, and work/life balance goals.
• On-demand pay program powered by Payactiv
• Discounts directory with deals on the things that matter to you, like restaurants, phone plans, spas, and more!
• Optional identity theft protection, home and auto insurance
• Traditional and Roth retirement options with service contribution and match savings

What This Job Offers

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