Chaplain

This is a full time (36 hours per week) position.

There is an every other weekend requirement.

Travel will be required between Big Rapids and Greenville hospitals.

Job Summary

Provides spiritual care counsel education and spiritual/emotional support to patients families and staff members of all faiths and traditions. Assists with referrals to particular faith group leaders when indicated and/or requested.

Essential Functions

• Provides spiritual care and emotional support to patients families and staff. Facilitates their spiritual understanding emotional coping and adjustment in the face of illness injury or death.
• Identifies and engages additional spiritual providers and resources either within or beyond our organization when this is requested and beneficial. Does so in a culturally competent manner.
• Documents clearly her/his interactions with patients and families--including assessments and plans--in a manner which is useful to departmental and interdisciplinary colleagues.
• Collaborates closely with departmental colleagues in providing seamless spiritual care by receiving referrals making following-up visits and providing hand-off reports. Participates in schedules with a flexibility that helps the team provide continuous coverage.
• Integrates her/his professional practice and style into assigned interdisciplinary healthcare teams in ways that enhance their overall efforts to provide excellent whole-person care.
• Prioritizes emergent (sometimes concurrent) referrals while not losing sight of certain regular duties. Manages time well across successive shifts which can vary widely in their demands.
• Maintains and applies a working knowledge of medical ethics. Recognizes when ethical principles could or do conflict in actual cases. Recognizes moral distress in care givers. Knows how to initiate an ethics consultation.
• Able to facilitate advance care planning conversations and decision-making.

Qualifications

• Bachelors Degree or equivalent in Ministry Religion Theology or other approved pre-seminary concentration.
• Vocational/Technical - One unit of Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) - within one year after hire

Preferred

• Masters Degree in Divinity or Arts in Theology with concentration in pastoral care
• Vocational/Technical Four units of Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE)
• Ordination / commissioning or endorsement for chaplaincy by own religious judicatory
• 2 years of relevant experience providing spiritual care in a hospital agency or congregation

About Corewell Health

As a team member at Corewell Health you will play an essential role in delivering personalized health care to our patients members and our communities. We are committed to cultivating and investing in YOU. Our top-notch teams are comprised of collaborators leaders and innovators that continue to build on one shared mission statement - to improve health instill humanity and inspire hope. Join a nationally recognized health system with an ambitious vision of continued advancement and excellence.

How Corewell Health cares for you

• Comprehensive benefits package to meet your financial health and work/life balance goals. Learn more here.

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• Optional identity theft protection home and auto insurance pet insurance

• Traditional and Roth retirement options with service contribution and match savings

• Eligibility for benefits is determined by employment type and status

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