What are the responsibilities and job description for the On Call Chaplain position at uic?
About UI Health
The University of Illinois Hospital & Health Sciences
System (UI Health) provides comprehensive care, education, and research to the
people of Illinois and beyond. A part of the University of Illinois at Chicago
(UIC), UI Health comprises a clinical enterprise that includes a 495-bed
tertiary care hospital, 30 outpatient clinics, and 13 Mile Square Health
Center facilities, which are Federally Qualified Health Centers. It also
includes the seven UIC health science colleges: the College of Applied Health
Sciences; the College of Dentistry; the School of Public Health; the Jane
Addams College of Social Work; and the Colleges of Medicine, Pharmacy, and
Nursing, including regional campuses in Peoria, Quad Cities, Rockford,
Springfield, and Urbana. UI Health is dedicated to the pursuit of health
equity.
Position Summary
This position is responsible for the delivery of pastoral care to patients, their families, students, and staff. This position is responsible to ensure that the religious and spiritual needs of patients, their families, students and staff are met.
Duties & Responsibilities
- Provide pastoral ministry (in a timely manner) to patients/families and clinical personnel, taking into consideration multiple elements of cultural and ethnic diversity and social conditions, without imposing one’s own perspectives.
- Assess patient and family spiritual needs and assist families in using their faith and/or spiritual resources in dealing with illness, trauma, and stress; visit newly admitted patients and patients with special requests; visit critical care areas; follow up with patients from previous visits as appropriate.
- Provide crisis intervention as necessary.
- Provide a range of skills, including empathic reflection, listening/attending, and appropriate use of religious/spiritual resources.
- Document consultation outcomes and retain records per the Pastoral Care process.
- Maintain a working relationship between Pastoral Care and medical staff, nursing staff, and other departments.
- Support an interdisciplinary approach to pastoral care.
- Assess patients and families' spiritual risk factors to include relationship with God/Deity, prior functioning levels, appropriateness and adequacy of support systems, reaction to illness, and ability to cope.
- Provide pastoral counseling to patients and families regarding religious/spiritual and emotional consequences of illness and/or disability, accessing and mobilizing family/community spiritual resources to meet identified needs.
- Provide crisis ministry and bereavement/grief ministry to patients, families, and clinical personnel.
- Collaborate with the patient, family, and multidisciplinary team to ensure identified religious/spiritual/cultural needs are addressed.
- Facilitate spirituality support group on the adult in-patient psychiatric unit, the rehabilitation unit, and other units as invited.
- Provide for coordination of services with community religious institutions.
- Educate patients and families regarding Advance Directives.
- Adhere to all hospital standards, policies, and procedures. Adhere to the code of ethics of the Association of Professional Chaplains.
- Perform other related duties and participate in special projects as assigned.
- Perform other related duties and participate in special projects as assigned.
