Chaplain PRN

Will also consider associate level chaplains - pay determined by experience.

Essential Functions 

• Assists the patient and their family and/or other visitors in coping with psychological, social, emotional, and spiritual needs in times of illness, trauma and/or stress.  

• Develops, implements, and documents spiritual assessment, interventions, and outcomes and participates as a member of interdisciplinary teams to provide whole person care.  

• Participates in multidisciplinary patient rounds, care conferences, ethics consultations and ethics triage call as directed by care site. 

• Responds to crisis situations (e.g. resuscitations, trauma, rapid response, death, BEST and Security alerts, etc.) to provide spiritual care and support, including pager coverage to meet the required hours of the care-site. 

• Responds to referrals to visit patients and/or their families regardless of religious affiliation, and initiates pastoral visits, as appropriate. 

• Provides caregiver support for grief, moral distress, vicarious trauma and compassion fatigue. 

• Promotes mission, vision, and values of Intermountain Health.   

• Assists with the development of the department's plan for continuous quality improvement and strategy deployment model. 

• Assists patients and families with advance directives and provides resources for transition, bereavement, and loss.  

• Appropriately and professionally documents in the electronic medical record and other departmental, site or system-based data tracking. 

• Participates in hospital wide committees. May lead specific committee projects and initiatives. 

Skills 

• Empathetic listening 

• Supportive dialogue 

• Pastoral counsel 

• Interpersonal Skills 

• Interfaith knowledge 

• Collaboration 

• Crisis Intervention 

• Project Support 

• Knowledge of Family and Group Dynamics 

• Spiritual Assessments 

Required Qualifications 

• Bachelor's Degree (accredited)  

• Completion of 2 units of Clinical Pastoral Education meeting approval of NACC/APC BCCi 

• Completion of four units of Clinical Pastoral Education meeting approval of NACC/APC BCCi completed within 2 years of hire 

• Documentation from ecclesial judicatory body of current endorsement and/or reference prescribed in accordance with applicant’s spiritual/faith tradition (received or reaffirmed within the last 12 months) articulating curr