Join the transformative team at City of Hope where were changing lives and making a real difference in the fight against cancer diabetes and other life-threatening illnesses. City of Hopes growing national system includes its Los Angeles campus a network of clinical care locations across Southern California a new cancer center in Orange County California and treatment facilities in Atlanta Chicago and Phoenix. Our dedicated and compassionate employees are driven by a common mission To deliver the cures of tomorrow to the people who need them today.
Position Overview
The chaplain is a professionally-trained individual who provides inter-faith spiritual care counseling and guidance to patients families and as appropriate City of Hope staff members. Chaplains provide expert spiritual assessments and care plans which integrate a persons existential spiritual and emotional well-being into medical plans improve quality of care and enhance patient experiences. Chaplains provide cultural competency education to medical teams enabling ethical and respectful engagement with families whose religious or spiritual beliefs may complicate adherence to medical recommendations. Additionally chaplains provide regularly programmed support to front line staff as well as impromptu debriefing andor support to teams as needed.
This individual actively works within a multidisciplinary team to ensure optimal delivery of spiritual care and both participates in and occasionally leads performance improvement initiatives. It is expected that the individual who holds this position is able to actively participate with colleagues in constructive problem-solving program development as well as to create and facilitate innovative and impactful support programs for patients caregivers and staff.
The Department of Supportive Care Medicine and the Sheri & Les Biller Patient and Family Resource Center utilize a staff leadership model and every employee is expected to take a leadership role in the department. Staff will also be expected to actively participate in marketing educational and group programs program development and fundraising efforts and outreach to patients families other City of Hope departments and the community.
As a successful candidate you will
Provides timely appropriate and respectful spiritual care services to patients and familiesof all faiths and belief systems.
Uses an interfaith approach with religious and cultural sensitivity to diverse belief needswhen presented with requests for chaplain services of any faith.
Delivers care in a manner consistent with the standards of the Association of ProfessionalChaplains APC.
Exercises skill in spiritual crisis management to assist patients in coping with cancer in all of itsphases diagnosis living with cancer recurrence end-of-life and survivorship.
Acts effectively as a liaison for appropriate referrals to other services including social work psychiatry psychology supportive medicine including palliative care and medical management.
Guides patient and families through end-of-life spiritual issues specifically to enable patients to make critical and ethical end-of-life decisions congruent with their belief system.
Offers developmentally age-appropriate spiritual support to pediatric patients and demonstrates skill in working with familiescaretakers of pediatric patients if assigned to Pediatrics.
Your qualifications should include
Masters in Divinity or equivalent
2 years spiritual care counseling experience in hospital orhospice setting
4 units CPE Clinical Pastoral Education
City of Hope employees pay is based on the following criteria work experience qualifications and work location.
City of Hope is an equal opportunity employer.
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