The Chaplain Sitter provides rapid response spiritual care and comfort support- defined as easing a person's feelings of distress (financial, emotional, spiritual, or physical).
Essential Job Function
- Provides direct and individualized spiritual and emotional support to patients.
- Provides short-term comfort sitter services to patients who are without resources to fill this need.
- Maintains regular communication and consultation with the referring chaplain, assistant director of Spiritual Care and Counseling and, if applicable, the unit chaplain.
- Relays important information to the patients nurse and provides input for the plan of care.
- Document all patient consultations and encounters in a timely manner.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Education
- Required: Bachelors Degree. Successful completion of one unit (approximately 400 hours) of Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE)
Experience
- Required: Six months of relevant experience providing emotional and spiritual support
Licensure/Certification/Listing
