Chaplain Non-Certified - Spiritual Care

Summary:

Provides timely and sensitive spiritual care to patients, families, associates, and physicians via individual and group interactions; systematically and intentionally gathers data to provide ongoing spiritual assessment of patients or families and develops, implements, and documents spiritual plans of care; participates as a member of interprofessional teams, identifying patient/family needs and developing specialized spiritual care services for specific areas of assignment; plans and facilitates rituals and worship services as needed; collects relevant data to self-monitor quality and effectiveness of spiritual care, and serves as a teaching resource in formal and informal situations about spirituality, spiritual needs of patients and families, and the connection between spirituality and health outcomes; assists with debriefing and support of associates after major events. 

Responsibilities:

• Assesses, provides, and documents effective spiritual care to patients, families, and staff in a variety of situations, including but not limited to crisis intervention, grief and bereavement, end of life care, and faith crises

• Systematically and intentionally gathers data to provide on-going spiritual assessment of patients or families

• Develops and implements a spiritual plan of care based on spiritual assessment
• Documents spiritual assessment and spiritual plan of care in patient’s medical record
• Participates as a member of the palliative care team, as assigned
• Participates as a member of the interprofessional team identifying patient/family needs and developing plan of care
• Plans and facilitates worship services as needed
• Provides timely and sensitive spiritual care to associates via individual and group interactions
• Collects relevant data to self-monitor quality and effectiveness of spiritual care
• Develops specialized spiritual care services for specific areas of assignment
• Serves as a teaching resource in formal and informal situations about spirituality, spiritual needs of patients and families, and the connection between spirituality and health outcomes
• Assist with debriefing and support of associates after major events
• Provides spiritual and religious resources as requested by patient/family
• Introduces patient/family to services of the spiritual care department
• Contacts community clergy as requested by patient/family
• Ability to function effectively under stress, to cope with crises situations, and to respond creatively to a multiplicity of changes
• Provides hospitality and assistance to visiting clergy as needed
• Serves as ethics resource for patients, family, and associates for a variety of clinical situations, including the removal/withholding of life sustaining treatment
• Serves as clinical partner or mentor to clinical pastoral education interns
• Understands and adheres to the christus health associate covenant and code of ethics
• Respects confidentiality of information from all sources, including patients, family members, other volunteers and csrhs associates
• Demonstrates cultural humility and sensitivity with respect to patient populations served
• Performs miscellaneous additional tasks as assigned or requested by director of spiritual cared.

Requirements:

Education

• High school diploma or GED required
• Master's degree in divinity, theology, pastoral ministry or spirituality required (unless level of degree not required at time of chaplaincy certification)
• Completion of a minimum of four units of clinical pastoral education

Experience

• Supervised experience within a clinical pastoral education program required 

Licenses, Registrations, or Certifications

• If not yet certified by one of the national certifying bodies (apc, nacc, or cpsp), must obtain certification within two years of hire

• Must be endorsed by leader of their faith community

Work Schedule:

8AM - 5PM Monday-Friday

Work Type:

Full Time