Chaplain
Job Location:
Oxnard, CA - USA
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Job Summary
Where Youll Work
Founded in 1912 Dignity Health - St. Johns Regional Medical Center is a 265-bed acute care nonprofit hospital located in Oxnard California. Serving over 85000 patients annually the hospital offers a full complement of services including emergency heart orthopedic and cancer care. Additionally St. Johns Regional Medical Center has been recognized as an LGBTQ Healthcare Equality High Performer by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation. It is a Joint Commission-certified Thrombectomy-Capable Stroke Center and was named one of Americas 100 Best Hospitals by Healthgrades in 2026.
Job Summary and Responsibilities
As our Chaplain you will serve as a vital spiritual leader and compassionate caregiver within our hospital community providing essential spiritual counseling and support to patients families and staff.
Every day you will provide direct spiritual religious and existential care offering compassionate presence support and appropriate rituals to patients families and staff especially during times of crisis or grief. You will collaborate with the healthcare team to advocate for spiritual needs and integrate holistic care ensuring respect for diverse beliefs.
To be successful in this role you must be a highly compassionate individual comfortable and skilled in engaging with people who may be emotional panicked stressed or in pain. Youll need the proven ability to provide empathetic care adapt to diverse spiritual needs and communicate effectively within a multidisciplinary team.
- Provides pastoral support and counseling to patients/residents families personnel and medical staff taking special note of patients newly admitted critically ill dying and those preparing for surgery. Measurements: Observation Feedback.
- Assesses pastoral / sacramental needs of patients families and personnel and provides follow-up as needed. Makes referrals for sacramental ministry of Catholic patients for Catholic chaplains or Eucharistic ministers. Measurements: Observation Feedback.
- Provides prayer and worship opportunities for patients hospital personnel medical staff and local church and civic community. Measurements: Observation.
- Responds in an appropriate and timely manner to all referrals for chaplain services and provides documentation in both the patients medical record and departmental records including assessment intervention pastoral plan and evaluation. Measurements: Observation Documentation Feedback.
- Collaborates with members of the interdisciplinary team and medical staff to provide total patient care. Participates in patient care conferences on assigned clinical units as well as other interdisciplinary hospital meetings. Measurements: Observation Minutes of Minutes Patient Care Documentation.
- Provides effective pastoral intervention during Code Blue/Code Pink/Code Yellow and other patient crisis. Acts as liaison between family hospital personnel and medical staff. Measurements: Observation Feedback Patient Care Documentation.
Job Requirements
Required
- Bachelors Other in a relevant field (e.g. Divinity Theology Mission Integration Ministry Spiritual Care pastoral Counseling Bioethics) upon hire
- Masters Other in a relevant field (e.g. Divinity Theology Mission Integration Ministry Spiritual Care pastoral Counseling Bioethics) upon hire or
- equivalent evidence of study in a relevant field (e.g. Divinity Theology Mission Integration Ministry Spiritual Care pastoral Counseling Bioethics) upon hire
- Experience working in a clinical settingaddressing pastoral spiritual and ethicalissues as evidence by 4 units of ClinicalPastoral Education (CPE) from an ACPEaccredited site
- Catholic Chaplain within 24 - months or
- Board Certified Chaplain APC within 24 - months or
- Certified Supervisor of Clinical Pastoral Education within 24 - months or
- Board Certified Chaplain BCC within 24 - months
Preferred
- Other Advance Degree in any of the following: Divinity Theology Mission Integration Ministry Spiritual Care PastoralCounseling Bioethics. Two or more years of Clinical Experience providing Spiritual/Pastoral Care or Counseling in a clinical setting upon hire
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