Weekend Overnight Staff Chaplain Full Time
About The Position
The Staff Chaplain provides pastoral counseling and spiritual support to patients, family members and significant others, and staff throughout the assigned healthcare setting. The chaplain serves as a member of an interfaith pastoral care team, participating in staff meetings and on-call responsibilities and providing meaningful worship experiences. Care may be delivered in acute and non-acute settings, including hospitals, outpatient areas, extended care facilities, and homes. The role includes assessing spiritual needs through clinical pastoral conversation, documenting and communicating patient responses, supporting healthcare staff, providing appropriate religious and spiritual rituals and non-pharmacological interventions, and coordinating with patients’ faith groups, leaders, and community or cultural resources. The chaplain also contributes to ethics consultations, interprofessional care and quality initiatives, and the clinical pastoral education program. The position requires a master’s degree and specialized theological education, ordination or appropriate endorsement or good standing in the chaplain’s faith tradition, and clinical pastoral education. Certification or certification eligibility through a recognized spiritual care organization is required, subject to the stated provision for approved plans and timelines. The position is full-time, scheduled for 40 hours per week, with a variable work shift and participation in an on-call rotation that may include overnight or weekend shifts.
Requirements
- Master’s degree required.
- Undergraduate degree from an accredited college, university, or theological school.
- Graduate-level theological degree from an accredited college, university, or theological school, with at least 72 semester hours (108 quarter hours) of credit and qualification as a Master of Divinity equivalent.
- Documentation of ordination, current endorsement, or good standing in accordance with the requirements of the chaplain’s faith tradition or endorsing agency.
- Four units of Clinical Pastoral Education (ACPE, NACC, or CASC).
- Certification or certification eligibility recognized by ACPE, APC, CASC, NACC, Neshama Association of Jewish Chaplains, or another organization approved by the Director of Pastoral Care and VP of Mission and Ministry and meeting the stated common qualifications and competencies.
- Demonstrated skills and professional ethics meeting the Common Qualifications and Competencies for Professional Chaplains and the Common Code of Ethics for Chaplains, Pastoral Counselors, Pastoral Educators and Students.
- Initial employment before completing certification requirements may be approved by the Director of Pastoral Care, with an approved plan and timeline for compliance.
Nice To Haves
- Master of Divinity preferred.
Responsibilities
- Provides pastoral counseling and spiritual support to patients, family members or significant others, and healthcare staff.
- Provides direct patient care in response to emergent and routine requests; assesses spiritual needs and concerns through clinical pastoral conversation and communicates and documents patient responses.
- Participates in an on-call rotation that may include overnight or weekend shifts.
- Participates in patient care conferences, interprofessional team meetings, department quality-improvement initiatives, policy review, and research projects.
- Provides appropriate religious or spiritual rituals and non-pharmacological interventions to patients, families, and the interprofessional team.
- Acts as a liaison with patients’ faith groups and leaders and with other community or cultural resources.
- Demonstrates knowledge of medical ethics and legal issues, including advance care planning, organ donation, futility of care, and patient rights; acts as a primary contact for ethics concerns and formal consultations.
- Provides care in diverse acute and non-acute settings, including hospitals, outpatient areas, extended care facilities, and homes.
- Participates in the system clinical pastoral education program as a mentor, preceptor, and didactic instructor; offers in-service education to the interprofessional team.
- Performs duties with a focus on safety, quality, and efficiency.
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