Staff Chaplain

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Job Type:

Regular

Scheduled Hours:

40

Why Youll Love Working with St. Elizabeth Healthcare

At St. Elizabeth Healthcare every role supports our mission to provide comprehensive and compassionate care to the communities we serve. For more than 160 years St. Elizabeth Healthcare has been a trusted provider of quality care across Kentucky Indiana and Ohio. Were guided by our mission to improve the health of the communities we serve and by our values of excellence integrity compassion and teamwork. Our associates are the heart of everything we do.

Benefits That Support You

We invest in you personally and professionally.

Enjoy:

- Competitive pay and comprehensive health coverage within the first 30 days.

- Generous paid time off and flexible work schedules

- Retirement savings with employer match

- Tuition reimbursement and professional development opportunities

- Wellness mental health and recognition programs

- Career advancement through mentorship and internal mobility

Job Summary:

The Staff Chaplain is a professional spiritual care provider and a full member of the healthcare interdisciplinary team who provides for the pastoral and spiritual needs of patients their families and associates. Specifically the chaplain through professional training pastoral presence organizational leadership spiritual assessment interventions and outcomes facilitates meaning-making in ways that are important to patients families and associates as they relate to their spiritual and emotional well-being. Demonstrates respect dignity kindness and empathy in each encounter with all patients families visitors and associates regardless of spiritual or cultural background.

This is a 2nd Shift Chaplain Role for working 2:30 p.m. - 11 p.m. Monday-Friday based at our Florence Hospital location with system-wide coverage responsibilities throughout the St. Elizabeth Healthcare system.

Job Description:

Patient & Family Spiritual Care Visits and Assessments

Provides excellence in spiritual care that contributes to the well-being of care-recipients and their families offering appropriate emotional and spiritual support through active listening spiritual assessments follow-ups presence prayer and grief support and informs care-recipients of spiritual supports available.

Clinical Documentation

Documents all pastoral care visits interventions outcomes and a care plan in the electronic medical record in a professional and timely way.

Associate Care

Provides excellence in spiritual care that contributes to the well-being of our associates including 1:1 visits group interventions and team meetings as requested and/or appropriate. Collaborates with the pastoral and spiritual care team and other departments in leading various associate care interventions and providing education when appropriate.

Supports Mission Services Strategic Initiatives

Performs other duties as assigned in support of our mission strategic plan and initiatives. May include formation education and supervision work including supporting the work of our spiritual care volunteers Eucharistic ministers and CPE student interns.

Education Credentials Licenses:

• Bachelors degree
• One unit of Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) or equivalent
• Agreement to adhering to the St. Elizabeth Spiritual Care Standards and Code of Ethics for Spiritual Care Professionals.

Specialized Knowledge:

• Thorough understanding of the goals and objectives of St. Elizabeths Healthcare. Knowledge and respect of spiritual/religious beliefs and practices of various worldview traditions.
• Strong interpersonal communication and listening skills and ability to handle difficult patient family and associate encounters.
• Ability to lead and coordinate prayer and group experiences.
• Ability to work with minimal supervision.
• Basic computer/technology skills and ability to communicate using ones own smartphone.
• Must have a valid drivers license and a personal vehicle in good working order.

Kind and Length of Experience:

• One year of pastoral ministry or chaplaincy experience.
• Ability and desire to work with people from diverse backgrounds including staff volunteers and clergy.
• Experience in working as a collaborative part of a team.

FLSA Status:

Exempt

Right Career. Right Here. If youre looking for the right careers in healthcare the right place to be is at St. Elizabeth. Join us and youll take pride in the level of care we offer our community.