Chaplain

Jefferson Health Plans

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About The Position

As an integrated team member, the staff chaplain is responsible for providing spiritual, emotional, and religious support to patients, families, and staff as appropriate to the assessed need. The staff chaplain’s responsibilities will be carried out across designated clinical areas and designated site locations between Jefferson Einstein Medical Center and Jefferson Moss-Magee Rehabilitation Hospital-Elkins Park. The chaplain will be required to provide designated on-call coverage on the weekends and overnights. Experience working as a chaplain within an urban Emergency Room and Trauma Center, strongly preferred. Experience and expertise working within a Physical Rehabilitation Hospital, preferred. Congregational or other clergy experience a plus. Recognition of being in good standing within faith group. Interacts with co-workers, visitors, and other staff consistent with the values of Jefferson. Provide spiritual care assessments in order to make judgments concerning the spiritual/emotional needs of persons and decisions about how the chaplain can assist those persons either directly or indirectly. Communicate in the context of the other person’s frame of reference and language skills. Provide Crisis intervention: Respond to emergencies such as Code Blue alerts to provide immediate spiritual and emotional support to patients and families. Share in trauma and on-call daytime, weekend, and overnight coverage in collaboration with other team members of the spiritual care dept Provides regular chaplaincy coverage to assigned patient areas/hospital sites. Attends to verbal and non-verbal communication, Assesses Interprets patient and family spiritual and emotional needs. Responds to discovered assessed needs in an appropriate age specific and patient population specific manner. Works non-judgmentally in an unbiased manner with diverse persons from all backgrounds. Oversee and run designated departmental projects and tasks As designated, lead religious rituals, services, bereavement groups, and support groups as appropriate to the patient population and as needs arise Knowledge of major faith groups, pastoral theology, dynamics of loss and grief, and of crisis theory and intervention. Able to provide some degree of grief support to culturally diverse population. Excellent communication skills, both oral and written. Knowledge in documenting in an electronic medical record. Ability to communicate effectively and with empathy. Able to establish and maintain healthy interpersonal relationships. Able to manage conflict well and foster a peaceful and collaborative environment. Comfortable navigating a large patient population with diverse spiritual, religious, and emotional needs.

Requirements

• Master's Degree (M.Div) or Equivalent
• 4 units of Clinical Pastoral Education (ACPE, Inc.), required
• Experience working as a chaplain within a medical setting, required
• Board Certification (or eligibility for) certification required within 18 months of hire
• Certification by the Association of Professional Chaplains, Inc. or by other chaplaincy organization with which APC has certification reciprocity strongly preferred
• Knowledge of major faith groups, pastoral theology, dynamics of loss and grief, and of crisis theory and intervention
• Able to provide some degree of grief support to culturally diverse population
• Excellent communication skills, both oral and written
• Knowledge in documenting in an electronic medical record
• Ability to communicate effectively and with empathy
• Able to establish and maintain healthy interpersonal relationships
• Able to manage conflict well and foster a peaceful and collaborative environment
• Comfortable navigating a large patient population with diverse spiritual, religious, and emotional needs

Nice To Haves

• Experience working as a chaplain within an urban Emergency Room and Trauma Center, strongly preferred
• Experience and expertise working within a Physical Rehabilitation Hospital, preferred
• Congregational or other clergy experience a plus
• Recognition of being in good standing within faith group

Responsibilities

• Provide spiritual, emotional, and religious support to patients, families, and staff
• Provide designated on-call coverage on the weekends and overnights
• Provide spiritual care assessments
• Provide Crisis intervention
• Provide regular chaplaincy coverage to assigned patient areas/hospital sites
• Assess and interpret patient and family spiritual and emotional needs
• Respond to discovered assessed needs in an appropriate age specific and patient population specific manner
• Work non-judgmentally in an unbiased manner with diverse persons from all backgrounds
• Oversee and run designated departmental projects and tasks
• Lead religious rituals, services, bereavement groups, and support groups

Benefits

• Jefferson offers a comprehensive package of benefits for full-time and part-time colleagues, including medical (including prescription), supplemental insurance, dental, vision, life and AD&D insurance, short- and long-term disability, flexible spending accounts, retirement plans, tuition assistance, as well as voluntary benefits, which provide colleagues with access to group rates on insurance and discounts.
• Colleagues have access to tuition discounts at Thomas Jefferson University after one year of full time service or two years of part time service.
• All colleagues, including those who work less than part-time (including per diem colleagues, adjunct faculty, and Jeff Temps), have access to medical (including prescription) insurance.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees