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Job Summary
Chaplain Resident - 40hr Rotating - BWH Spiritual Care Services
This is a short-term position with an expected duration of 9 months.
- Provides professional care to patients, guests, and hospital staff.
- Responds to referrals and rounds on assigned patient units.
- Provides rituals and sacramental care as appropriate and in accordance with departmental and denominational policies.
- Shares in planning and leadership of chapel services.
- Participates in special services offered through Spiritual Care in collaboration with team members and hospital staff.
- Consults with other healthcare professionals in order to enhance patient care including participation in interdisciplinary meetings.
- Charts visits in the electronic medical record.
- Provides educational in-services, seminars and programs for staff as appropriate.
- Works to increase the visibility and quality of Spiritual Care within the hospital community.
- Participates in on-call rotations of nights and weekends and is available on an as-needed basis for emergencies.
- Functions as a member of the Spiritual Care team and maintains a close working relationship with all members of the department.
- Actively contributes to Clinical Pastoral Education Program activities, including seminars, verbatim presentations, peer group, and individual supervision.
- Performs other duties as required, assigned, or negotiated.
Education: Baccalaureate degree (B.A. or B.S.) or international equivalent required.
One or more units of Clinical Pastoral Education required.
Graduate degree from an accredited seminary or theological school or commensurate tradition-specific training preferred.
Additional Job Details (if applicable)
Professional: Excellent interpersonal skills. Knowledgeable about spiritual care with persons of diverse religious, socioeconomic, ethnic, racial, educational, and cultural backgrounds. Ability to work well as a member of an interdisciplinary healthcare team. Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing. Ability to access varied experiences and interpretations of spirituality, behavioral sciences, and relationality to provide comprehensive care to others. Familiarity with and application of clinical ethical decision-making. Regularly seeks consultation to provide the best standard of care. Good organizational and computer skills.
Personal: Commitment to reflective practice. Compassion for the hospitalized and their loved ones/companions. Maturity and ability to function under intensive conditions. Resourcefulness and cooperativeness in relationship with others. Commitment to personal and professional growth.
Physical: Chaplain residents frequently need to move throughout the hospital to attend to patients, guests, and staff, and respond to emergencies and consult requests. They need to communicate texts and rituals, use the hospital’s secure messaging system, and document their visits electronically using a computer. While serving required on-call in-hospital overnight shifts, chaplains need to respond to emergent calls and codes at any time of the shift. In the educational and clinical settings, they need to communicate information and ideas so others will understand.
Please be in contact with the chaplain educator to discuss appropriate accommodations for any of these duties before the start of the unit.
Onsite
75 Francis Street
40
Regular
Rotating (United States of America)
Pay Range
$48,547.20 - $69,409.60/Annual
Grade
5
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