Chaplain

As our Chaplain, you will serve as a vital spiritual leader and compassionate caregiver within our hospital community, providing essential spiritual counseling and support to patients, families, and staff.

Every day, you will provide direct spiritual, religious, and existential care, offering compassionate presence, support, and appropriate rituals to patients, families, and staff, especially during times of crisis or grief. You will collaborate with the healthcare team to advocate for spiritual needs and integrate holistic care, ensuring respect for diverse beliefs.

To be successful in this role, you must be a highly compassionate individual, comfortable and skilled in engaging with people who may be emotional, panicked, stressed, or in pain. You'll need the proven ability to provide empathetic care, adapt to diverse spiritual needs, and communicate effectively within a multidisciplinary team.

What you'll do...

• Provide patient and/or family visitation and support as needed or as requested by patients, family members or staff in all departments of CHI St. Joseph’s Health.
• Participate as an integral member of the patient care teams throughout the organization to provide individualized patient care including but not limited to conducting emotional and spiritual needs assessments and creating and following-up on responses to those needs as well as, in relation to the rest of the patient care team, ensuring that holistic person-centered care is offered in the overall care plan of the patient and their support. This includes participating in daily core care rounds with interdisciplinary team and charting in the Electronic Health Record (EHR).
• The chaplain responds to all codes and emergency pastoral care needs throughout the hospital and in the emergency department (e.g., traumas). Additionally, the chaplain works closely with patients, family members and staff regarding end of life conversations and decisions, as well as journeying with patient and family when death occurs.
• Provide lead oversight and monitoring of the advance care planning process at CHI St. Joseph’s Health. Provide health care directive information and materials to persons requesting such information or assistance. Raise awareness, grow support for, and promote an advance care planning initiative with the wider community.
• Provide spiritual care leadership, support and care to staff, departments and organization including: providing pastoral care in times of crisis, illness, death; offering reflections at various organizational events, offering blessing of hands service to organization during the fall months, seek creative ways to raise staff awareness of various feast days, provide oversight of the chapel space as well as morning prayer over the public address system and continuously work to see opportunities to integrate our Mission and Values into the culture and fabric of CHI St. Joseph’s Health.
• Provide leadership to the Medical Ethics Committee. Must maintain working knowledge of the Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services (ERDs) and their application to a clinical context.

Required

• BA in Theology or related discipline
• One unit of CPE

Preferred

• Master of Divinity
• Four units of CPE
• Board Certified Chaplain APC
• Certified Supervisor of Clinical Pastoral Education
• Board Certified Chaplain BCC
• Catholic Chaplain

CHI St. Joseph’s Health of Park Rapids, part of CommonSpirit Health, is an award-winning, 25-bed critical access hospital located in the heart of lake country. Fully accredited by The Joint Commission, we offer a full range of services including 24/7/365 Emergency Department and Level IV Trauma Center, hospitalist program, testing, surgery, orthopedics, rehabilitation, and more so that you can experience better health.