Chaplain

Spiritual Health Support Specialist

Compensation for this role is based on a number of factors including but not limited to experience education and other business and organizational considerations.

Position Summary: Provide spiritual support to patients families and staff. Assist in the orientation training and professional development of department staff community clergy volunteer chaplains and visiting Catholic Priest. Ensure adherence to Hospitals and departmental policies and procedures. Patient care assignment may include neonate pediatric adolescent adult geriatric and behavioral health groups.

Detailed responsibilities:

• Provide in-house off-site and on-call spiritual need coverage to patients families and hospital staff by responding to codes death and other emergencies
• Oversee use of chapel for spiritual purposes act as liaison with local clergy provide in-service and community educational needs of individual faiths by fostering ecumenical approach to hospital ministry
• Provide for specific needs of individual faiths by fostering an ecumenical/universal approach to hospital ministry
• Provide spiritual support to patients families and hospital staff as requested provide sacraments worship services and memorial services
• Collaborate with Hospital staff employees when working with patients to strengthen the care provided assist in identifying and solving problems
• Assess and plan for Pastoral Care Program consistent with available resources and institution mission assist in planning organizing scheduling and conducting spiritual programs and services
• Enhance professional growth and development through participation in educational programs reading current literature attending in-services meetings and workshops
• Follow patient safety-related policies procedures and protocols
• Demonstrate proactive approach to patient safety by seeking opportunities to improve patient safety through questioning of current policies and processes
• Identify and report/correct environmental conditions and/or situations that may put a patient at undue risk
• Report potential or actual patient safety concerns medical errors and/or near misses in a timely manner
• Encourage patients to actively participate in their own care by asking questions and reporting treatment or situations that they don't understand or may "not seem right"
• Compile and complete documentation of patient care activities using the FICA Spiritual Assessment

Qualifications:

Education:

• Essential: Pastoral Master's Degree
• Education specialization: Essential: 4 Units Clinical Education Divinity or Equivalent

Experience:

• Essential: 1 year directly related experience
• Nonessential: Bilingual English Spanish Keres Tewa Tiwa Towa Zuni or Navajo 3 years directly related experience Mental health facility inpatient experience Bio-medical Ethics Committee Member experience

Credentials:

• Essential: Fatih or Community Endorsement
• Nonessential: APC NACC NAJC CASC or SCA Board Cert w/in 36 mos of pos

Physical Conditions:

Light Work: Exerting up to 20 pounds of force occasionally and/or up to 10 pounds of force frequently and/or a negligible amount of force constantly to move objects. Physical demand requirements are in excess of those for Sedentary Work. May require walking or standing to a significant degree or requires sitting most of the time but entails pushing and/or pulling of arm or leg controls and/or may require working at a production rate pace entailing the constant pushing and/or pulling of materials even though the weight of materials is negligible.

Working conditions:

• Essential: Sig Haz: Physical risk/injuries due to combative patients Sig Hazard: Chemicals Bio Hazardous Materials req PPE
• May be required or is required to perform on-call duties
• May work rotating shifts holidays and weekends
• Tuberculosis testing is completed upon hire and additionally as required