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.

• 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 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.
• Serve as the Hospice Chaplain to offer the spiritual component to the hospice team. Participate in the biweekly Hospice IDG meeting. Co-lead the monthly Grief Support group for bereaved community members. Visit Hospice clients and families as requested.

Required

• Bachelors degree in Religious Studies or related field
• One - Two (1-2) years experience in the provision of spiritual care
• CPE’s desirable
• Current driver’s license
• Current auto insurance
• One - Two (1-2) years experience in the provision of spiritual care and ability to intervene, communicate and document client spiritual care needs effectively
• Working knowledge of spiritual assessment and intervention to support patient and family
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Preferred

• Experience in Hospice Care and/or completion Hospice training program

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You’ll find challenging, rewarding work every day alongside people who have as much compassion as you. Join us and together we’ll create healthier, stronger communities. Imagine your career at Catholic Health Initiatives!

CommonSpirit Health was formed by the alignment of Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI) and Dignity Health. With more than 700 care sites across the U.S. & from clinics and hospitals to home-based care and virtual care services CommonSpirit is accessible to nearly one out of every four U.S. residents. Our world needs compassion like never before. Our communities need caring and our families need protection. With our combined resources CommonSpirit is committed to building healthy communities advocating for those who are poor and vulnerable and innovating how and where healing can happen both inside our hospitals and out in the community.