Clinical Pastoral Education Resident' Mount Sinai Hospital; Full Time; Days

Reporting to the Director of Spiritual Care and Education, the Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) Resident is responsible for addressing the spiritual, religious, and emotional needs of patients, families, and staff at Mount Sinai Hospital. The CPE Resident joins a dynamic team within the Department of Spiritual Care and Education, fostering collaborative relationships with interdisciplinary care teams and contributing to the well-being of the Mount Sinai community. This role includes on-call coverage during nights, weekends, and holidays. This role involves active participation in Mount Sinai's Association for Clinical Pastoral Education (ACPE) residency training program, with a focus the requirements for chaplaincy certification. 

1. Cultivate mastery in chaplaincy knowledge and skills.
2. Foster effective communication with diverse patients, family members, and staff.
3. Build and maintain relationships with clinical and support staff.
4. Liaise with hospital and community clergy.
5. Conduct visits across designated hospital floors and ambulatory settings.
6. Assess and address spiritual and religious needs, ensuring tailored interventions.
7. Provide care and support to hospital staff.
8. Facilitate holiday services, memorials, and special events.
9. Actively participate in interdisciplinary meetings and initiatives.
10. Participate in on-call rotation during evenings, weekends, and holidays.
11. Fulfill documentation requirements, including electronic health record charting.
12. Orient and mentor incoming CPE Interns.
13. Complete all required trainings and educational requirements.
14. Participate in department quality improvement initiatives.
15. Uphold the code of ethics of the Association of Professional Chaplains.
16. Adhere to all Mount Sinai Health System standards, policies, and procedures.
17. Actively participate in the Clinical Pastoral Education program, completing all written requirements, reading assignments, and classwork.
18. Perform other duties as assigned

• Masters degree preferred.
• Completion of one unit of Clinical Pastoral Education in an accredited program preferred.

 

 

Non-Bargaining Unit, 258 - Dept of Spiritual Care & Ed - MSH, Mount Sinai Hospital

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The Mount Sinai Health System believes that diversity, equity, and inclusion are key drivers for excellence. We share a common devotion to delivering exceptional patient care. When you join us, you become a part of Mount Sinai’s unrivaled record of achievement, education, and advancement as we revolutionize medicine together. We invite you to participate actively as a part of the Mount Sinai Health System team by:  

• Using a lens of equity in all aspects of patient care delivery, education, and research to promote policies and practices to allow opportunities for all to thrive and reach their potential.
• Serving as a role model confronting racist, sexist, or other inappropriate actions by speaking up, challenging exclusionary organizational practices, and standing side-by-side in support of colleagues who experience discrimination.
• Inspiring and fostering an environment of anti-racist behaviors among and between departments and co-workers.

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Mount Sinai Health System is one of the largest academic medical systems in the New York metro area, with more than 43,000 employees working across eight hospitals, more than 400 outpatient practices, more than 300 labs, a school of nursing, and a leading school of medicine and graduate education. Mount Sinai advances health for all people, everywhere, by taking on the most complex health care challenges of our time — discovering and applying new scientific learning and knowledge; developing safer, more effective treatments; educating the next generation of medical leaders and innovators; and supporting local communities by delivering high-quality care to all who need it. Through the integration of its hospitals, labs, and schools, Mount Sinai offers comprehensive health care solutions from birth through geriatrics, leveraging innovative approaches such as artificial intelligence and informatics while keeping patients’ medical and emotional needs at the center of all treatment. The Health System includes approximately 7,400 primary and specialty care physicians; 13 join