ContingentSupportChaplain

**Overview:** **Job Description Summary:** Provides emotional and spiritual support to patients, family members, and hospital staff. Serves in a contingent, as-needed basis. **Job Description:** **Essential Functions:** * Provides direct pastoral care and counseling to patients, families, and staff; provides emotional and spiritual support in times of crisis; uses dynamics of interpersonal relationships and appropriate religious resources to help ease anxiety and to help persons integrate their hospital experience with their view of life. * Occasional evening and weekend hours are required. In addition, provides overnight, holiday, and weekend on-site pastoral care on an as-needed basis. * Provides informal and formal consultation to hospital staff in the development of emotional and spiritual care plans for patients and their families. * Maintains consultative relationships with the community; consults with clergy, congregations, and religious bodies regarding spiritual care of patients and families. **Education Requirement:** * Master of Divinity (M.Div.) degree from an accredited seminary or graduate school, or equivalent ministry experience, preferred. * Completion of one unit of ACPE Clinical Pastoral Education, required. * Completion of four units of ACPE Clinical Pastoral Education, preferred. **Certifications:** * Ordination, or faith group equivalent, and endorsement by an appropriate ecclesiastical or equivalent organization, or ability to obtain within one year of hire, preferred. * Board certified or board certified eligible in the Association of Professional Chaplains, National Association of Catholic Chaplains, National Association of Jewish Chaplains, preferred. **Skills:** * Strong communication and interpersonal skills. * Ability to respond appropriately to situations with complex emotional and relational dynamics. **Experience:** Pastoral care experience in in a diverse setting, required. **Physical Requirements:** OCCASIONALLY: Blood and/or Bodily