On Call Chaplain
About The Position
The On-Call Staff Chaplain provides compassionate, culturally sensitive, developmentally appropriate spiritual and emotional support to pediatric patients, their families, and hospital staff. The chaplain responds to spiritual care needs during scheduled on-call hours, particularly evenings, nights, weekends, and holidays, and offers a supportive presence during crisis, grief, uncertainty, and end-of-life situations. The role serves people of all faith traditions, spiritual backgrounds, and beliefs, including those with no faith, while supporting a healing environment consistent with the hospital’s mission and values. The chaplain responds to referrals, code events, trauma activations, and urgent requests; offers spiritual practices as requested and appropriate; collaborates with the interdisciplinary care team; maintains professional ethics and confidentiality; and coordinates handoffs with daytime chaplains. The role maintains readiness to support patients across emergency, intensive care, and inpatient units, and provides care responsive to patients’ physical, psychological, social, educational, and safety needs regardless of age. This is an onsite, PRN/on-call position with variable shifts. Compensation is paid per diem per shift, with additional compensation for in-hospital response time as applicable. A $3,000 taxable sign-on bonus is available.
Requirements
- At least one unit of Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) accredited by ACPE.
- Ability to support people from diverse faith traditions, cultures, and backgrounds.
- Strong interpersonal, listening, and crisis intervention skills.
- Endorsement or credentials from a recognized faith tradition, such as ordination, commissioning, or authorization to serve in a religious office; formal recognition beyond lay membership is expected.
- Experience working with all levels within an organization.
- Proficiency in MS Office (Outlook, Excel, and Word) or similar software.
- Bachelor’s degree in theology, religious studies, pastoral care, or a related field.
Nice To Haves
- Previous experience in pediatric, hospital, or health care chaplaincy.
- Healthcare experience.
- At least one year of relevant experience is preferred.
Responsibilities
- Provide spiritual and emotional support to patients, families, and staff during on-call hours, including crisis intervention, grief support, and end-of-life care.
- Respond promptly to referrals, code events, trauma activations, and urgent requests for chaplain presence.
- Offer rituals, prayers, sacraments, or other spiritual practices as requested and appropriate, respecting patients’ and families’ diverse beliefs.
- Provide comfort and guidance during periods of stress, loss, or decision-making.
- Collaborate with the interdisciplinary care team to integrate spiritual needs into patient- and family-centered care.
- Uphold professional ethics, confidentiality, and sensitivity to diverse cultural and spiritual perspectives.
- Participate in handoff communication with daytime chaplains to support continuity of care.
- Maintain readiness to provide chaplaincy support across emergency, intensive care, and inpatient units.
- Demonstrate the knowledge and skills needed to address the physical, psychological, social, educational, and safety needs of patients served, regardless of age.
- Perform other duties as required.
Benefits
- $3,000 taxable sign-on bonus available.
- Per-diem compensation per shift, with additional compensation for in-hospital response time as applicable.
