Licensed Practical Nurse - PACT

Chaplaincy Services

Total Rewards of an Allied Health Professional

Major duties include, but are not limited to:

• Providing extended and intensive pastoral counseling as an integral part of the treatment program with patients facing complex, ethical, moral, and spiritual issues.
• Ensuring program effectiveness and modification of service pattern, which includes research and leadership of clinical teams.
• Serving as a Chaplain representative and a fully recognized member of an interdisciplinary treatment team (IDT).
• Advising and collaborating with other members of the IDT to provide comprehensive healthcare services to Veterans.
• Working with a full understanding of Chaplains' relationships to the objectives of VHA to successfully integrate the work of the medical facility's staff.
• Maintaining effective rapport with physicians, medical officers, psychologists, nurses, therapists, social workers, or others involved with the IDT.
• Providing leadership, direction, orientation, coaching, in-service training, staff development, and continuing education programs.
• Conducting comprehensive religious services and worship, pastoral ministry, and administration of Chaplain services.
• Leading various complex and sensitive projects, task groups, and assignments to obtain pertinent high-level information needed for Chaplain Service management officials.
• Engaging as a spiritual leader, a compassionate listener, and counselor, especially during times of crisis.
• Providing emotional support and counseling using empathy and strong interpersonal skills to effectively connect with people of all ages.
• Providing thorough spiritual leadership, offers prayers, and provides overall religious services for Veteran patients, patient families, staff, and community.
• Conducting regular rounds of hospital wards where patients are critically ill.
• Building strong interpersonal relationships with patients and ensures all patients are provided opportunities for the free exercise of religion.
• Using thorough knowledge of different faiths to perform various religious rituals, lead prayers, and answer spiritual questions.
• Maintaining records and appropriately documenting chaplaincy care services in the Electronic Health Record Management (EHRM) system/Computerized Patient Record System (CPRS) through either service approved template or Subjective, Objective, Assessment, and Plan (SOAP) note format.
• Providing referrals for continuity of spiritual care.
• Providing appropriate education and training to other healthcare staff and trainees to screen for spiritual and religious needs and the importance of appropriate referrals to chaplains for complex spiritual distress.
• Coordinating with community organizations to ensure the provision of comprehensive spiritual care, including interested community organizations, local clubs, church groups, special agencies, business organizations, and other stakeholders, to sustain the necessary links with the outside community.
• Administering ordinances, rites or sacraments; prepares and delivers sermons; arranges for the atmosphere and symbolism of worship; and conducts funeral services when needed.

Work Schedule: (for Excelsior Springs VA Clinic) 7:00am -3:30pm, Monday - Friday; (for Kansas City VA Medical Center) 7:45am - 4:15pm, Monday - Friday

Recruitment/Relocation Incentives (Sign-on Bonus): Not Authorized

Permanent Change of Station (Relocation Assistance): Not Authorized

Pay: Competitive salary and regular salary increases. When setting pay, a higher step rate of the appropriate grade may be determined after consideration of higher or unique qualifications or special needs of the VA (Above Minimum Rate of the Grade).

Paid Time Off: 37-50 days of annual paid time offer per year (13-26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays per year). Selected applicants may qualify for credit toward annual leave accrual, based on prior [work experience] or military service experience.

Parental Leave: After 12 months of employment, up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave in connection with the birth, adoption, or foster care placement of a child.

Child Care Subsidy: After 60 days of employment, full time employees with a total family income below $144,000 may be eligible for a childcare subsidy up to 25% of total eligible childcare costs for eligible children up to the monthly maximum of $416.66.

Retirement: Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA

Insurance: Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement)

Telework: Not Available.

Virtual: This is not a virtual position.

Functional Statement #: 589-22-138/GS-3; 589-22-139/GS-4; 589-22-140/GS-5; 589-22-141/GS-6

Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized