Chaplain

Job Description

Independently provides spiritual care and emotional support, integrating into the care team to address complex needs. Supports patients and families through crises and transitions.

• Saturday and Sunday, 06:15 - 18:45

• 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.

• Empathetic listening
• Supportive dialogue
• Pastoral counsel
• Interpersonal Skills
• Interfaith knowledge
• Collaboration
• Crisis Intervention
• Project Support
• Knowledge of Family and Group Dynamics
• Spiritual Assessments

• 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 current endorsement/authorization for hospital chaplaincy ministry and applicant’s good standing with endorsing/recommending organization. The letter must be mailed, emailed, or faxed directly from the endorsing/recommending organization. Faith groups must be recognized by the Department of Defense (Armed Forces chaplains Board) or previously reviewed and approved by the BCCi, If not, approval of documentation of authorization/endorsement must come from Intermountain Peaks Mission office regarding a review of the faith group.
• Two or more years of health care chaplaincy experience

• Completion of Accredited Graduate Theological Degree (MDiv or Equivalent)
• Completion of 4 or more units of Clinical Pastoral Education meeting approval of NACC/APC BCCi
• Three or more years of relevant spiritual care experience in a hospital setting.

• Ongoing need for employee to see and read information, labels, documents, monitors, identify equipment and supplies, and be able to assess customer needs.
• Frequent interactions with providers, colleagues, customers, patients/clients and visitors that require employee to verbally communicate as well as hear and understand spoken information, needs, and issues quickly and accurately.
• Manual dexterity of hands and fingers to manipulate complex and delicate supplies and equipment with precision and accuracy. This includes frequent computer use for typing, accessing needed information, etc.
• For roles requiring driving:
  Expected to drive a vehicle which requires sitting, seeing and reading signs, traffic signals, and other vehicles.

Intermountain Health Lutheran Hospital, Wheat Ridge, Colorado

24 hours per week

$27.65 - $43.55