Spiritual Health Clinician

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Overview:

The Palliative Care Spiritual Health Clinician (SHC) provides compassionate inclusive and skilled spiritual support to patients and families receiving outpatient palliative care. This role is an integral member of the interdisciplinary team addressing spiritual and existential distress supporting bereavement care and contributing to the emotional well-being of patients caregivers and staff. The SHC participates in education program development and quality improvement to advance whole-person care within the clinic.

Key Responsibilities:
Clinical Care:
Provide individual and family spiritual counseling through in-person audio and video (telemedicine) visits.
Offer spiritual assessments and interventions as part of the interdisciplinary care plan.
Facilitate culturally sensitive support for diverse spiritual and religious needs including non-religious or secular frameworks.
Conduct or participate in legacy work ritual creation and meaning-centered interventions.
Provide bereavement counseling to family members and caregivers following patient deaths including anticipatory grief support.
Programmatic Responsibilities
Coordinate and lead the clinics bereavement service in collaboration with the interdisciplinary team.
Participate in the Clinic Innovations Committee to enhance patient caregiver and staff experiences.
Collaborate with social work psychology and medical teams to identify patients needing targeted spiritual care interventions.
Education and Mentorship
Supervise and mentor learners (e.g. students spiritual health residents/fellows medical fellows) during outpatient rotations.
Contribute to formal didactics debriefs or reflective sessions for palliative care fellows and staff.
Administrator on call for Winship spiritual health one week/month.
Team Support and Collaboration
Attend and contribute to interdisciplinary team meetings and case conferences.
Provide emotional and spiritual support to team members as needed including after challenging clinical events or losses.
Participate in wellness and team-building initiatives within the outpatient clinic.

Position development:
Become BCCI (Board Certified Chaplain) and CCSH (Compassion Centered Spiritual Health) registered clinician within 2 years of employment.
Engage in CBCT teacher training within the first 2 years of employment.
Teach CBCT following this certification in collaboration with Spiritual Health leadership.
Metrics and Evaluation
Patient Encounters: Number and modality (audio video in-person) of completed spiritual health consults tracked monthly.
Patient Satisfaction: Inclusion of spiritual care satisfaction in patient feedback/surveys.
Team Feedback: Periodic team-based assessments of chaplain contributions to care and team well-being.
Educational Contribution: Documentation of lectures given learners supervised and reflective sessions led.
Program Involvement: Participation in committee initiatives and implementation of bereavement support efforts.

Work Environment and Schedule:

• Hybrid clinical presence required: combination of on-site audio and video encounters. Campuses include: EUH WEM ESJH
• Some flexibility to support evening or weekend bereavement events or team support when needed.

Minimum Qualifications:

Education:

• A Masters of Divinity or qualifying graduate degree that meets criteria for BCCI Inc. (BCC) board certification.
• Ordination or endorsement by an acknowledged faith tradition
• Four consecutive units of ACPE Inc. clinical spiritual health education (CPE) with demonstrated competence.

Experience:

• Experience in palliative care hospice oncology or chronic illness preferred.

Emory is an equal opportunity employer and qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex national origin disability protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by state or federal law.

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