Jewish Chaplain (Spiritual Caregiver) - Per Diem @ Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Cedars-Sinai•Los Angeles, CA

23d•Onsite

About The Position

Grow your career at Cedars-Sinai! Cedars-Sinai Medical Center has been named to the Honor Roll in U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Hospitals 2025-2026” rankings. When you join our team, you’ll gain access to our groundbreaking biomedical research facilities and sophisticated medical education programs. We offer learning programs, tuition reimbursement and performance-improvement projects so you can achieve certifications and degrees while gaining the knowledge and experience needed to advance your career. We take pride in hiring the best, most hard-working employees. Our talented staff reflects the culturally and ethnically diverse community we serve. They are proof of our dedication to creating a dynamic, inclusive environment that fuels innovation and the gold standard of patient care we strive for. Why work here? Healing the Whole Person, Body and Soul. The chaplains at Cedars‑Sinai represent a wide array of religious, spiritual and cultural backgrounds. As a key part of your interdisciplinary healthcare team, they spend time with patients and their loved ones to provide spiritual support for people of all religions—or no religion—with compassion and understanding during your hospital stay. Chaplains also provide support to all who are experiencing grief and emotional/spiritual distress. When you work with a Cedars‑Sinai chaplain, they become an integral part of your healthcare team and will work to ensure that you are cared for holistically. Beyond outstanding benefits, competitive salaries and health and dental insurance we offer tuition reimbursement and learning programs so you can achieve additional certifications and degrees while gaining the knowledge and experience needed to advance your career. At Cedars-Sinai, you’ll work among our state-of-the-art biomedical research facilities with access to the best physicians and scientists in the Los Angeles area. What will you be doing in this role: The Jewish Chaplain, under general direction of the manager of the Spiritual Care Department, provides faith-specific and interfaith chaplaincy for Cedars-Sinai to meet the spiritual needs of patients, families, loved ones, and staff. Spiritual care includes conducting religious services throughout the year and collaborating in Cedars-Sinai's Hybrid Liaison model of religion-specific and interfaith provision of care.

Responsibilities

Perform spiritual assessment, and develop a spiritual care plan.
Deliver and arrange for spiritual care to patients, families, and loved ones through counseling, prayer, devotional materials, ritual/sacraments, resources, and supportive presence, for patients at all stages of illness and wellness.
Ensure a full continuum of evidenced-based spiritual care best practices in a way that is respectful of and sensitive to patient beliefs and values, as they understand them, and respectful of their cultural heritage.
Offer and provide as appropriate prayer and supportive presence, including end-of-life prayers for dying patients.
Help arrange for contact with a patient’s or family’s own clergy, at their request, and facilitate appropriate access to the medical center for that clergy member so that they may administer to the patient or family.
Be available on-call by phone and if appropriate, in person, outside of normal Medical Center business hours for emergencies that meet agreed-to criteria, except during vacations and appropriate absences.
Meet with CSMC staff members as appropriate to provide counseling about spiritual matters.
As time permits, offer prayer services, spiritual reflection groups and written inspirational materials to staff members.
Develop and lead nondenominational or interfaith memorial services to honor staff and patients.
After appropriate training, join the Spiritual Care team members to participate in Critical Incident Stress Management debriefings for CSMC staff, particularly those for which a spiritual perspective is desirable.
Primary chaplain for one to five units, including role as Liaison responsible for unit rounds, referrals to religion-specific chaplain, and rotation with other chaplaincy team members. Share patient crisis responsibilities, including code blue response.
Develop and lead services and study sessions, including interfaith services in collaboration with the Christian, Jewish, and Catholic chaplains as appropriate.
Collaborate with chaplaincy team to identify general spiritual needs of the CSMC community and develop plans to meet them.
Provide education to staff to enable them to offer medical care that is sensitive to the spiritual needs and traditions of patients, their families and loved ones.
Participate in Bioethics consultations as needed to provide a spiritual perspective.
Select and acquire supplies for religious services.
Keep appropriate records of spiritual care provided to patients, their families and loved ones.
Distribute religious supplies such as literature for patients as appropriate.
Distribute materials that inform patients, families, loved ones, and staff of the availability of spiritual care and of how to access it.
Be respectfully available and sensitive to all patients, their families and loved ones and staff members who request spiritual care, and make referrals to the Christian, Jewish, Interfaith, or Catholic chaplains for them as appropriate.
Adhere to all Spiritual Care Collaborative Common Standards for Professional Chaplaincy and APC Standards of Practice.