Resident-Pastoral Education

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Job Description

As an integrated team member the chaplain resident is responsible for providing spiritual emotional and religious support to patients families and staff. The chaplain resident will participate in all activities and group work of the Clinical Pastoral Education Program complete all required readings and written work provide spiritual care to patients on assigned units or by referral through Chaplaincy Services and provide overnight and weekend on-call coverage in rotation with other residents. The chaplain must work as a professional interact as part of the interdisciplinary care team and chart in the patients computer and paper medical record as appropriate.

Essential Functions

Interacts with co-workers visitors and other staff consistent with the values of Jefferson.

Applies learning in the Clinical Pastoral Education Program in order to make judgments concerning the spiritual/emotional needs of persons and decisions about how the chaplain resident can assist those persons either directly or indirectly.

Communicate in the context of the other persons frame of reference and language skills.

Relate comfortably and supportively with patients and their families physicians hospital employees and all levels of management

Provide Crisis intervention: Respond to emergencies such as Code Blue alerts to provide immediate spiritual and emotional support to patients and families.

Provides regular chaplaincy coverage to assigned patient areas. Attends to verbal and non-verbal communication Assesses Interprets patient and family spiritual and emotional needs. Responds to discovered assessed needs in an appropriate age specific and patient population specific manner. Works non-judgmentally in an unbiased manner with diverse persons from all backgrounds.

Leads religious rituals/services as appropriate with approval of supervisor.

Engages in CPE learning in compliance with ACPE standards.

Ability to tolerate develop skills engage with and navigate spiritual care provision with emotional stamina and coping skills for dealing with potentially traumatic situations.

Competencies

Excellent communication skills both oral and written. Ability to communicate effectively and with empathy. Able to establish and maintain healthy interpersonal relationships. Able to provide some degree of grief support to culturally diverse population. Comfortable navigating a large patient population with diverse spiritual religious and emotional needs.

Education:

Bachelors degree required. Masters degree in Divinity or related field preferred.

AND

Experience:

Experience working with people of multiple faiths and cultures strongly preferred.

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Nationally ranked Jefferson which is principally located in the greater Philadelphia region Lehigh Valley and Northeastern Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey is reimagining health care and higher education to create unparalleled value. Jefferson is more than 65000 people strong dedicated to providing the highest-quality compassionate clinical care for patients; making our communities healthier and stronger; preparing tomorrows professional leaders for 21st-century careers; and creating new knowledge through basic/programmatic clinical and applied research. Thomas Jefferson University home of Sidney Kimmel Medical College Jefferson College of Nursing and the Kanbar College of Design Engineering and Commerce dates back to 1824 and today comprises 10 colleges and three schools offering 200 undergraduate and graduate programs to more than 8300 students. Jefferson Health nationally ranked as one of the top 15 not-for-profit health care systems in the country and the largest provider in the Philadelphia and Lehigh Valley areas serves patients through millions of encounters each year at 32 hospitals campuses and more than 700 outpatient and urgent care locations throughout the region. Jefferson Health Plans is a not-for-profit managed health care organization providing a broad range of health coverage options in Pennsylvania and New Jersey for more than 35 years.

Jefferson is committed to providing equal educational and employment opportunities for all persons without regard to age race color religion creed sexual orientation gender gender identity marital status pregnancy national origin ancestry citizenship military status veteran status handicap or disability or any other protected group or status.

Benefits

Jefferson offers a comprehensive package of benefits for full-time and part-time colleagues including medical (including prescription) supplemental insurance dental vision life and AD&D insurance short- and long-term disability flexible spending accounts retirement plans tuition assistance as well as voluntary benefits which provide colleagues with access to group rates on insurance and discounts. Colleagues have access to tuition discounts at Thomas Jefferson University after one year of full time service or two years of part time service. All colleagues including those who work less than part-time(including per diemcolleagues adjunct faculty and Jeff Temps) have access to medical (including prescription) insurance.

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