Chaplain-PRN

Vail Health has become the world’s most advanced mountain healthcare system. Vail Health consists of an updated 520,000-square-foot, 56-bed hospital. This state-of-the-art facility provides exceptional care to all of our patients, with the most beautiful views in the area, located centrally in Vail. Learn more about Vail Health here. About the opportunity: Assist patients and families through spiritual support to deal with illness, hospitalization, and associated stress. Provide spiritual assessments and appropriate intervention. Assist Vail Health staff, physicians, and volunteers with spiritual support as they desire. Provide crisis intervention, spiritual assessments, and visit with patients, families and staff. What you will do: • Assess patient and family spiritual needs and assist patient and families in using their faith to help deal with illness, trauma, and stress. • Initiate visits with patients and families by performing daily rounds as well as responding to special requests from patients, families and staff in order to address their spiritual and emotional needs. Support to be offered in various ways which recognize and respect the culture and religious perspective of the person receiving care. • Provide care to all patients along with their families and staff at various Vail Health locations and sites as directed and appropriate. • Support families and staff during time of patient death when appropriate and as able. • Offer spiritual support to staff, physicians, and volunteers, as they desire. • Respond to Trauma Activation and Code Blue calls, as able and appropriate. • Serve on-call to requests for chaplain services, including level-one trauma activations, as scheduled by supervising chaplain. On-call hours may include regularly scheduled work hours, and/or during scheduled after-hour time frames. • Document patient and family services provided. This description is not intended and should not be construed to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilit