Chaplain Associate
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Job Description
POSITION SUMMARY
The interfaith chaplain will serve intermittently to support the Spiritual Care department when current staff are away. The ideal candidate will have a flexible schedule and be able to work both inhospital day shifts as well as oncall shifts at night from home. Interfaith chaplains support the diversity of religious and spiritual practices of the St. Elizabeths patients family members staff and community members.
St. Elizabeths is a 300 bed acute care hospital that includes 38 ICU beds a level III NICU two units of inpatient behavioral health and a variety of medical and surgical specialties. Part of the Boston Medical Center system St. Elizabeths serves those who live in the AllstonBrighton area as well as from the broader eastern Massachusetts region. Our community includes patients from a wide diversity of ethnicities socieoeconomic statuses and spiritual traditions.
Position: Chaplain Associate
Department: Spiritual Care Services
Schedule: Part Time
ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES / DUTIES:
- Actively rounding and assessing patients on assigned units while providing appropriate psychosocialspiritual support as well as followup if needed
- Working collaboratively with other members of the Spiritual Care department to provide religionspecific interventions for patients families staff and community members
- Contacting outside clergy and religious communities to support patients and families as needed
- Collaborate with the broader team of providers nursing social work case managers and palliative care to provide holistic care for patients and families
- Charting patient and family interactions within the electronic medical record (currently Meditech)
- Covering the oncall pager from within the hospital (day) or from home (night) as scheduled
- Leading spirituality groups on behavioral health units as assigned
- Mentoring graduate practicum students working in the department and overseeing spiritual care volunteers as needed
- Supporting scheduled services for the hospital population (e.g. memorials for staff bereavement services for families) as well as for specific religious observances (e.g. Catholic mass Passover Ramadan) as requested
JOB REQUIREMENTS
EDUCATION:
Minimum 40 hours of work towards a graduate degree in Theology/Religion/Philosophy; preference for a completed masters degree
Minimum of 1 units of CPE accredited by ACPE; preference 4 units
Must have endorsement by a recognized religious body or authority ordination is not
Ability to cover oncall regularly from outside the hospital requires arriving at hospital within 3045 minutes (minus traffic) of call
Ability to work independently and to make decisions based on established policies and procedures.
Ability to support a wide range of religious and spiritual traditions including Catholic Evangelical Christian Jewish Muslim Buddhist Hindu nontheistic spiritual but not religious nones; preference for deeper experience with Jewish and/or Muslim spiritual care
Preference for interfaith chaplains who speak Spanish Haitian Creole Portuguese (Brazilian) Russian or Chinese (Cantonese or Mandarin)
Equal Opportunity Employer/Disabled/Veterans
Required Experience:
IC
Employment Type
Part-Time
