Chaplain

Chaplain Position

Functions as a member of the Rochester General Hospital health care team, providing proactive spiritual and emotional care to patients, families and staff regardless of faith tradition or system of belief.

Responsibilities include:

• Making regular visits to assigned patient units.
• Responding to referrals from the medical and nursing staff, social worker, and other support staff personnel.
• Responding to requests from families for spiritual/emotional support for the patient and/or themselves.
• Attending interdisciplinary meetings of care teams in order to integrate the role of spiritual care with other disciplines and to build strong working relationships among the members of the team.
• Providing spiritual and emotional support, upon request and as deemed necessary, to Rochester General Hospital.
• Addressing ethical issues relating to patients, families and staff with demonstrated knowledge of subject areas and concern for the individual's well-being.
• Assisting the patient's own clergyperson in appropriate ways to meet his or her responsibility to their parishioner, including notifying clergy of patient's hospitalization with permission.
• Providing on-call coverage overnight and weekends as needed.

Required qualifications include:

• Master's level degree in Theology preferred.
• One unit of Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) required.
• Three years satisfactory pastoral experience preferred.

Preferred qualifications include:

• Strong analytical, computer, and communication skills.
• For ElderONE only: 1 year of experience working with a frail or elderly population preferred.

Physical requirements include:

Sedentary Work - Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time, but may involve walking or standing for brief periods of time. Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required only occasionally and all other sedentary criteria are met.

Pay range: $25.00 - $25.00

Location: Rochester, New York

Postal Code: 14621

Rochester Regional Health is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. Minority/Female/Disability/Veterans