Chaplain (Palliative Care)

Job Description

Job Description

Company Description

At Henry Ford Health, we're committed to advancing health and improving lives for the millions of people we serve across Michigan and around the world. As one of the nation's leading academic health systems, we provide a comprehensive continuum of care that includes primary and preventive services, specialty and complex care, virtual care, pharmacy, home health, eye care, health insurance, and more. With 12 hospitals and hundreds of ambulatory care locations, including former Ascension Southeast Michigan and Flint Region facilities, our growing network expands access to exceptional care in the communities we serve.

Headquartered in Detroit, Henry Ford Health is helping shape the future of healthcare through the transformative Future of Health: Detroit initiative, a $3 billion investment that is redefining our academic healthcare campus and advancing innovation, research, education, and community impact.

Our work is grounded in purpose, collaboration, and belonging. We empower team members to grow their careers, contribute innovative ideas, and make a meaningful difference every day. Whether you're caring for patients, supporting operations, conducting research, or driving new solutions, you'll be part of a team united by a shared mission: delivering exceptional care, advancing health outcomes, and building healthier communities for all. Job Description

SPECIFIC DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: 

• Operates at height of a chaplain’s scope of practice consistently demonstrating all professional competencies that are required for board certification, including operating in evidence-based practice. 
• Serves as a specialist in spiritual/existential care on an interdisciplinary palliative medicine team: Attends daily interdisciplinary team meetings and collaborates with the interdisciplinary palliative medicine team, sharing important psycho-social, spiritual/existential and family dynamic concerns.

• Collaborates with palliative care team to participate in family care conferences, advance care planning and medical decision-making, and other palliative generalist support within the chaplain’s scope of practice. 

• Works with an appropriate spiritual assessment model to fully assess spiritual and existential pain, drive chaplain’s interventions, and contribute meaningfully to the plan of care.

• Appropriately meets the spiritual and religious needs of patients, families, and team members from a diversity of faith backgrounds, including those of no faith. Collaboratively provides bereavement and end-of-life care for patients and their families, and supports team members with their own grief in caring for patients at the end-of-life 

• Provides institutional leadership through spiritual care education and advocacy for all disciplines, including residents and fellows, at Henry Ford Detroit. 

• Develops and facilitates non-religious spiritual formation, debriefing sessions, and self-care rituals to support palliative care team colleagues as well as other team members in need of support in difficult cases. 

• Collaborates with the spiritual care team at Henry Ford Detroit to ensure palliative care patient needs are met on evenings and weekends.

Qualifications

EDUCATION:

• Master's degree in divinity, Theology, or a related field from an accredited school is required. 

• 4 units of Clinical Pastoral Education 

• 3-5 years of healthcare experience as a chaplain is preferred.

Additional Information 

• Organization: Henry Ford Health Main Hospital 

• Department: Pastoral Spiritual Care 001 

• Henry Ford Health Location: Henry Ford Main 

• Shift: Full time evenings