Resident-Pastoral Education

Jefferson Health Plans • Philadelphia, PA

1d • Onsite

About The Position

As an integrated team member, the chaplain resident is responsible for providing spiritual, emotional, and religious support to patients, families, and staff. The chaplain resident will participate in all activities and group work of the Clinical Pastoral Education Program, complete all required readings and written work, provide spiritual care to patients on assigned units or by referral through Chaplaincy Services, and provide overnight, weekend, holiday, and regular on-call coverage in rotation with other residents. The chaplain must work as a professional, interact as part of the interdisciplinary care team, and chart in the patient’s computer and paper medical record as appropriate. The chaplain resident will collaborate and consult with the Spiritual Care Staff to fulfill clinical responsibilities. The chaplain resident will navigate the rigorous requirements and needs of the CPE residency with engagement, enduring commitment, including self care to fulfill development as a professional spiritual care provider.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• Excellent communication skills, both oral and written.
• Ability to communicate effectively and with empathy.
• Able to establish and maintain healthy interpersonal relationships.
• Able to assess needs and reprioritize responsibilities in a complex, dynamic context.
• Able to provide some degree of grief support to culturally diverse population.
• Comfortable navigating a large patient population with diverse spiritual, religious, and emotional needs.
• Capacity and commitment to developing self-awareness for professional self supervision.

Nice To Haves

• Master’s degree in Theology or related field preferred.
• Experience working with people of multiple faiths and cultures strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide spiritual, emotional, and religious support to patients, families, and staff.
• Participate in all activities and group work of the Clinical Pastoral Education Program.
• Complete all required readings and written work.
• Provide spiritual care to patients on assigned units or by referral through Chaplaincy Services.
• Provide overnight, weekend, holiday, and regular on-call coverage in rotation with other residents.
• Work as a professional and interact as part of the interdisciplinary care team.
• Chart in the patient’s computer and paper medical record as appropriate.
• Collaborate and consult with the Spiritual Care Staff to fulfill clinical responsibilities.
• Navigate the rigorous requirements and needs of the CPE residency with engagement, enduring commitment, including self care to fulfill development as a professional spiritual care provider.
• Interact with co-workers, visitors, and other staff consistent with the values of Jefferson.
• Apply learning in the Clinical Pastoral Education Program to make judgments concerning the spiritual/emotional needs of persons and decisions about how the chaplain resident can assist those persons either directly or indirectly.
• Develop skills, engage with, and navigate spiritual care provision with emotional stamina and coping skills for dealing with potentially traumatic situations.
• Communicate in the context of the other person’s frame of reference and language skills.
• Relate comfortably and supportively with patients and their families, physicians, hospital employees, and all levels of management.
• Respond to emergencies such as Code Blue alerts to provide immediate spiritual and emotional support to patients and families.
• Provide regular chaplaincy coverage to assigned patient areas.
• Attend to verbal and non-verbal communication.
• Assess and interpret patient and family spiritual and emotional needs.
• Respond to emergent pertinent, 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.
• Lead religious rituals/services as appropriate with approval of supervisor.
• Engage in CPE learning in compliance with ACPE standards.

Benefits

• Medical (including prescription)
• Supplemental insurance
• Dental
• Vision
• Life and AD&D insurance
• Short- and long-term disability
• Flexible spending accounts
• Retirement plans
• Tuition assistance
• Voluntary benefits (group rates on insurance and discounts)
• Tuition discounts at Thomas Jefferson University after one year of full time service or two years of part time service.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level