Job Description
Overview:
Members of the Spiritual Care Team provide emotional/spiritual care, crisis intervention, conflict management, and other support to patients, their families, and to staff, through on-call coverage, usually overnight and on weekends.In healthcare: chaplains are key resources engaged in supporting the emotional / spiritual needs of patients, their families, and healthcare staff. These supportive activities may focus on those with established faith traditions and practices, or those with no religious beliefs, but who have emotional reactions to their personal/medical situations. These supportive efforts include compassionate response to all expressions of diversity. Responsibilities:
ALL: Conducts all job responsibilities with respect for state and federal guidelines including HIPPA guidelines for confidentiality.
ALL: Advocates for the diversity and inclusion needs of youth / families / staff.
ALL: Support the care of other faith group leaders while remaining HIPPA compliant.
BH: Supports youth care in both inpatient and outpatient settings as part of the treatment team.
BH: Work collaboratively with the treatment team in responding to crisis, conflict management, and situational de-escalation as part of a holistic model of youth care.
BH: Work from a recognized child development model that includes personality formation.
BH: Develop understandings of the common behavioral health challenges our youth face and provide contextual emotional / spiritual support that compliments the treatment plan when appropriate.
BH: Utilizes the youth's electronic medical record as part of the treatment team and to support youth care needs.
BH: Can work with religiously preoccupied youth in collaboration with treatment team.
CL: Work collaboratively with campus chaplain in-patient teams providing care and support to our in-patients.
CL: Manage duties as assigned as a staff chaplain on one of the regional hospital campuses supporting direct patient care.
CL: As a staff chaplain conduct visit rounds and respond to medical crisis in designated roles as a staff chaplain.
Complete all employee annual training and education, including specific training pertinent to BH role. Maintain current working knowledge of department policies and procedures pertinent to daily job responsibilities. Attend department staff meetings. Provide team leadership, mentoring, training for PRN chaplains as part of the staff chaplains role. Provide BH educational in-service training for department staff and spiritual care training for BH staff.
Qualifications:
License/Certifications: Cert. Chaplain Cert. - Varies
Education: Master's Degree: Theology
Other Knowledge/Skills:
Job Tags
Part time, Shift work, Night shift, Weekend work,