Chaplain 3 | Full Time | St. Rita's Medical Center

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Scheduled Weekly Hours:

32

Work Shift:

All (United States of America)

Summary of Primary Function General Purpose of Position

Under the direction of the Director of Mission or Director of Spiritual Care, the Chaplain III ministers to patients, families, and staff around religious and spiritual needs.  As an integral member of the multidisciplinary team, the chaplain provides spiritual care and emotional support within the context of illness, crisis, loss, and death.  The chaplain is committed to the Mission and models its core values.

Essential Job Functions

• Recognizes the sacramental needs of the Catholic population.
• Provide for religious and ritual needs of diverse faith groups.
• Minister to a diverse population in a non-proselytizing manner and provide basic emotional and spiritual support to patients, visitors, our community, and fellow associates.
• Collaborate with fellow team members and the interdisciplinary team including appropriate referrals that serve those in their care. 
• Provide effective pastoral ministry by employing, in addition to basic pastoral skills, advanced pastoral care and counseling techniques, including but not limited to, emotional processing, reframing for meanings and perspectives, and facilitation of deeper theological and personal reflections.
• Demonstrate proficiency in conducting full-spectrum spiritual care assessment and care planning process. 
• Demonstrate proficiency in psychotherapeutic models, theoretical frameworks of praxis, pastoral theology, pastoral care and counseling, or healthcare ethics.
• Provides a specialized perspective at clinical care conferences while addressing the spiritual and emotional aspects of holistic care.  Provide consultation for cases with significant relational, familial, religious, or cultural dynamics and engender appropriate spiritual care outcomes.
• Provide effective spiritual interventions in end-of-life situations and crisis cases (Code Blue, Death, Trauma, etc.). 
• Coordinate delivery of pastoral care resources for complex patient care situations and collaborate with Departmental leaders in making appropriate referrals.
• Provide Advanced Care Planning consultations and elicits care preferences including Advanced Medical Directives documentation
• Deliver a specialized service in area of expertise or assignment (e.g. palliative care, mental health, pediatrics, ethics, and mission leadership) per organizational needs.
• Develop, manage, and deliver educational content in areas of advanced certification or subject-matter expertise to departmental colleagues or those of other disciplines.
• Convene and facilitate staff-support interdisciplinary conversations as appropriate.  Lead reflective listening group sessions after a significant tragic or traumatic event as requested by leaders.
• Provide effective advisement to clinical leaders on ethical and moral concerns as needed.
• Integrate best practices from spiritual care research and quality improvement outcomes into workflow processes.
• Publish articles in academic journals or research publications in areas of spiritual care, theology, or ethics.
• Program planning and management.
• May co-lead seminars and CPE units with program certified educator.
• May provide one-to-one and group supervision under the supervision of ACPE Certified Educator.
• Professionally communicates clinically relevant information in the EMR benefitting interdisciplinary care.
• Demonstrates knowledge of the Ethical and Religious Directives of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and adheres to the policies of the BSMH as a Catholic healthcare organization.
• 24/7 call with expectations for holidays/weekends

This document is not an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, skills, duties, requirements, or working conditions associated with the job. Employees may be required to perform other job-related duties as required by their supervisor, subject to reasonable accommodation.

Licensing/Certification

Completed four or more units of Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) (required)

Board certification by a professional certifying organization (National Association of Catholic Chaplains, Association of Professional Chaplains, Association of Jewish Chaplains, Association of Clinical Pastoral Education, Association of Pastoral Counselors) (required)

Advanced certification in specialty area of Chaplaincy, Ethics or an equivalent (preferred) or ACPE Certified Educator Candidate (CEC)

Education

Master's degree in Theology or Pastoral Studies (require