Contingent Support Chaplain - Spiritual Care

Job description

Overview: Schedule: Contingent, as needed (non-benefits eligible) Job Description Summary: Provides emotional and spiritual support to patients, family members, and hospital staff. Serves in a contingent, as-needed basis. Job Description: Essential Functions: - Provides direct pastoral care and counseling to patients, families, and staff; provides emotional and spiritual support in times of crisis; uses dynamics of interpersonal relationships and appropriate religious resources to help ease anxiety and to help persons integrate their hospital experience with their view of life. - Occasional evening and weekend hours are required. In addition, provides overnight, holiday, and weekend on-site pastoral care on an as-needed basis. - Provides informal and formal consultation to hospital staff in the development of emotional and spiritual care plans for patients and their families. - Maintains consultative relationships with the community; consults with clergy, congregations, and religious bodies regarding spiritual care of patients and families. Certifications: Skills: Experience: Pastoral care experience in in a diverse setting, required. - Master of Divinity (M.Div.) degree from an ac...