Emory Healthcare Spiritual Health Resident Fall 2026
About The Position
Join Emory Healthcare in a meaningful role where spiritual care, compassion, and clinical excellence come together as a Spiritual Health Resident supporting patients, families, and care teams. The one year Emory Healthcare Spiritual Health Residency is an ACPE-accredited clinical training program designed to prepare future professional chaplains through supervised spiritual care, reflective practice, and interdisciplinary collaboration within an academic healthcare setting. Our residency will consist of system-wide clinical assignments supporting multiple specialty areas at Emory University Hospital, Emory Midtown, Emory Decatur, Emory Long Term Acute Care, Emory Hillandale, Emory Johns Creek, Emory Winship Cancer Institute.
Requirements
- One unit of Clinical Pastoral Education in a program credentialed by ACPE.
- MDiv or other Master's degree in theology or minimum education needed for board eligibility by Association of Professional Chaplains (APC) or its strategic partners (NAJC, NACC, CASC/ACSS).
Nice To Haves
- Ordination, license or endorsement by an acknowledged ecclesiastical body or specialized spiritual/philosophical/religious group preferred.
Responsibilities
- Participates as a member of the interdisciplinary health care team in providing spiritual care to patients and families.
- Participates in continuous collaboration with educator, team members and other health care professionals to promote environment of care, healing and professional development.
- Learns by participating in reflection groups, individual consultation and didactics totaling at least 100 hours per unit.
- Is responsible for leading worship services as required at each site.
- Understands and complies with Spiritual Health and CPE policies, and applicable Emory Healthcare policies.
- This is a time limited position for one year.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
