Associate Chaplain - On Call - Nights - Jackson Hospital

Associate Chaplain - Jackson Hospital

Contingent position, 20 hours or less - on-call overnight two or more nights each week.

Responsibilities:

• Provides religious and spiritual care and counsel for emotional and spiritual distress to patients, their families, associates and others with attention to diverse spiritual orientations and cultures.
• Assesses, provides, and documents pastoral care to patients, families and staff.
• Provides appropriate pastoral care to the local ministry and community through prayer and blessings.
• Provides consultation to patients, families, and medical staff with ethical decision making and values while making appropriate referrals as needed.
• Assists in planning, organizing, evaluating, and implementing the spiritual program with each local ministry in order to ensure spirituality initiatives are executed properly.

Requirements:

• All applicants should have at least one unit of Clinical Pastoral Education, a bachelor's degree, and preferably a master's degree from an CHEA accredited seminary.
• At least two years of demonstrated work in spiritual care in an organized body of religion.

Additional Information

• Organization: Corporate Services
• Department: Mission Spiritual Care
• Shift: Variable
• Union Code: Not Applicable