Chaplain

Corewell Health • Niles, MI

2d • Onsite

About The Position

The Chaplain provides spiritual care, counsel, education, and spiritual and emotional support to patients, families, and staff members of all faiths and traditions. The role facilitates spiritual understanding and emotional coping and adjustment in the face of illness, injury, or death, and assists with referrals to faith-group leaders or other spiritual providers when appropriate or requested. Care is provided in a culturally competent manner.

The Chaplain documents interactions, assessments, and plans for departmental and interdisciplinary colleagues; collaborates with spiritual-care colleagues through referrals, follow-up visits, and hand-off reports; and integrates into assigned interdisciplinary healthcare teams to support whole-person care. The role prioritizes emergent referrals while maintaining regular duties, manages time across variable shifts, and participates in schedules that support continuous coverage. The Chaplain applies working knowledge of medical ethics, recognizes ethical conflicts and caregiver moral distress, initiates ethics consultations, and facilitates advance-care-planning conversations and decision-making.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Bible, Theology, religion, pastoral care, ministry practicum, psychology, or counseling.
• One unit of Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) within one year after hire.
• State of Michigan driver's license.

Nice To Haves

• Four units of Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE).
• Ordination, commissioning, or endorsement for chaplaincy by the candidate's religious judicatory.
• Two years of relevant experience providing spiritual care in a hospital, agency, or congregation.

Responsibilities

• Provide spiritual care and emotional support to patients, families, and staff.
• Facilitate spiritual understanding, emotional coping, and adjustment in the face of illness, injury, or death.
• Identify and engage additional spiritual providers and resources within or outside the organization when requested and beneficial.
• Provide culturally competent care.
• Document interactions with patients and families, including assessments and plans, for departmental and interdisciplinary colleagues.
• Collaborate with departmental colleagues by receiving referrals, making follow-up visits, and providing hand-off reports.
• Participate in schedules with flexibility to help provide continuous coverage.
• Integrate professional practice into assigned interdisciplinary healthcare teams to enhance whole-person care.
• Prioritize emergent referrals while maintaining regular duties and manage time across successive shifts with varying demands.
• Maintain and apply working knowledge of medical ethics, recognize potential conflicts in ethical principles, and recognize moral distress in caregivers.
• Know how to initiate an ethics consultation.
• Facilitate advance-care-planning conversations and decision-making.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package to meet financial, health, and work/life balance goals.
• On-demand pay program powered by Payactiv.
• Discounts directory with deals on 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