Chaplain-On Call/Per Diem

Seattle Children's Hospital•Seattle, WA

About The Position

Provide for the spiritual, emotional, religious, and educational needs of patients, their families, loved ones, caregivers, staff, faculty, and volunteers. The role requires collaboration with an interdisciplinary healthcare team and experience addressing spiritual, religious, and existential distress, supporting staff, and applying knowledge of theology, grief, and medical ethics. By the second anniversary of employment, the chaplain must sit for board certification and pass and maintain certification through a qualifying professional chaplaincy organization, unless the person’s religious or spiritual tradition does not yet have an eligible certification pathway. Provisional certification is acceptable.

Requirements

A Master of Divinity degree or equivalent graduate degree in theology, religious studies, pastoral counseling, or spirituality appropriate for board certification.
Satisfactory completion of four units of clinical pastoral education if board certified, or two units if working toward board certification, in a program accredited by the Association of Clinical Pastoral Education.
Ordination or commissioning and ecclesiastical endorsement, or an equivalent healthcare chaplaincy endorsement, from the person’s religious judicatory body, and good standing with the endorsing body.
One year of healthcare ministry experience as staff, student, and/or volunteer.
Proficient experience and interpersonal skills in assessing and addressing spiritual, religious, and existential distress with anxious patients, families, and staff.
Experience working effectively and collaboratively on an interdisciplinary healthcare team, using knowledge and practice of theology, the grieving process, and medical ethical issues.
Experience providing staff support through formal and informal debriefings and intentional rounding.
By the two-year anniversary of employment, sit for board certification; pass and maintain certification through a professional chaplaincy organization participating in the Common Standards and Common Code of Ethics, unless the person’s tradition does not have a recognized certification pathway. Provisional certification is acceptable.

Nice To Haves

Current certification from a professional chaplaincy organization participating in the Common Standards and Common Code of Ethics, or provisional certification or eligibility to obtain certification within one to three years of employment.
Maintenance of professional certification.
Chaplaincy experience in a pediatric hospital or academic healthcare organization focused on children, families, and staff.
Functional or fluent spoken Spanish, or another non-English language.
Experience working with people from diverse cultural, linguistic, religious, and non-religious backgrounds.
Experience providing staff support through events such as Tea for the Soul.
Experience providing staff support and education related to spiritual care, spiritual, religious, or existential distress, cultural and spiritual humility, resiliency, and palliative care.
Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM) training and experience facilitating healthcare staff debriefings.
Experience with research related to spiritual care and healthcare chaplaincy.

Responsibilities

Address the spiritual, emotional, religious, and educational needs of patients, families, loved ones, caregivers, staff, faculty, and volunteers.
Assess and address spiritual, religious, and existential distress among patients, families, and staff.
Work collaboratively as part of an interdisciplinary healthcare team, applying knowledge and practice of theology, the grieving process, and medical ethical issues.
Provide staff support through group, individual, or organizational debriefings and intentional rounding.
Sit for board certification by the two-year anniversary of employment, and pass and maintain certification through a qualifying professional chaplaincy organization, unless the person’s tradition does not have an available certification pathway.