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Job Description Summary:

Job Description:

The Chaplain provides intensive and extensive spiritual care throughout the hospital and in assigned clinical areas to diverse patients and their families as well as to hospital employees and the organization.

Essential Functions:

• Assesses patients and families spiritual needs and resources and provides culturally sensitive spiritual care interventions accordingly including but not limited to the provision or coordination of religious rituals crisis care spiritual counseling grief counseling and support groups

• Communicates spiritual care needs of patients and their families as a member of the interdisciplinary care team and collaborates with physicians hospital staff and spiritual/religious leaders in the community in the care of patients and their families

• Provides spiritual care and emotional support to hospital employees individually and in group settings

• Participates in the Chaplaincy Services departments educational programs for chaplain interns and chaplain residents

Shift Requirements:

Shift Length (in hours): 8

# Shifts/Week: 5 or PRN (see also under Other Functions for PRN requirements)

Overtime Required: Infrequently Sometimes Often n/a (exempt position)

Other Functions:

• Documents all spiritual care interventions and plans of care in patients medical records

• Participates in departmental and interdepartmental process improvement initiatives

• Serves on organizational committees or in work groups as assigned or requested

• PRN Chaplains at Jewish Hospital must work at least one (1) weekend shift and five (5) on-call shifts per month

• Complies with HIPAA privacy and security requirements to maintain confidentiality at all times

• Maintains compliance with all company policies procedures and standards of conduct

• Performs other duties as assigned

Additional Job Description:

Education:

• Masters level degree that is accepted by certifying chaplaincy organizations (required)

• Master of Divinity with specialization in spiritual/pastoral care or chaplaincy (preferred)

• For PRN applicants/positions: Completion of at least half of their Master level degree (preferred)

Experience:

• Four (4) units of Accredited Clinical Pastoral Education (ACPE) (required)

• For PRN applicants/positions:

  • One (1) unit of ACPE accredited Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) (required)

  • Four (4) units of ACPE accredited CPE for PRN chaplains (preferred)

Certification:

• Eligibility for board-certification through Association for Professional Chaplains (APC) National Association for Catholic Chaplains (NACC) or National Association of Jewish Chaplains (NAJC)/Neshama (required)

• Board-certification through APC NACC or NAJC/Neshama (preferred)

• For PRN applicants/positions: No certifications required