Chaplain, Per Diem Nights/Weekends

Role Overview

• Functions as a member of the RRH health care team, providing proactive spiritual and emotional care to patients, families and staff
• Makes regular visits to assigned RRH patient units
• Responds to referrals from the medical and nursing staff, social worker, and other support staff personnel
• Responds to requests from families for spiritual/emotional support for the patient and/or themselves
• Attends interdisciplinary meetings of care teams in order to integrate the role of spiritual care with other disciplines and to build strong working relationships among the members of the team
• Provides spiritual and emotional support, upon request and as deemed necessary, to RRH
• Addresses ethical issues relating to patients, families and staff with demonstrated knowledge of subject areas and concern for the individual’s well-being
• Assists the patient’s own clergyperson in appropriate ways to meet his or her responsibility to their parishioner, including notifying clergy of patient’s hospitalization with permission
• Serves on various hospital committees, task forces, as requested
• Leads in-service presentations on relevant issues to promote staff awareness and education
• Relays problems/concerns to Leadership
• Provides on-call coverage overnight and weekends as needed

Requirements

• One unit of CPE required
• Three years satisfactory pastoral experience preferred
• Four units of Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) preferred
• Master’s level degree in Theology preferred.