About the role
As an integrated team member, the chaplain resident is responsible for providing spiritual, emotional, and religious support to patients, families, and staff.
As an integrated team member, the chaplain resident is responsible for providing spiritual, emotional, and religious support to patients, families, and staff. The chaplain resident will participate in all activities and group work of the Clinical Pastoral Education Program, complete all required readings and written work, provide spiritual care to patients on assigned units or by referral through Chaplaincy Services, and provide overnight, weekend, holiday, and regular on-call coverage in rotation with other residents.
The chaplain must work as a professional, interact as part of the interdisciplinary care team, and chart in the patient’s computer and paper medical record as appropriate. The chaplain resident will collaborate and consult with the Spiritual Care Staff to fulfill clinical responsibilities. The chaplain resident will navigate the rigorous requirements and needs of the CPE residency with engagement, enduring commitment, including self care to fulfill development as as professional spiritual care provider.
• Interacts with co-workers, visitors, and other staff consistent with the values of Jefferson. Applies learning in the Clinical Pastoral Education Program to make judgments concerning the spiritual/emotional needs of persons and decisions about how the chaplain resident can assist those persons either directly or indirectly. Ability to tolerate, develop skills, engage with, and navigate spiritual care provision with emotional stamina and coping skills for dealing with potentially traumatic situations.
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Relate comfortably and supportively with patients and their families, physicians, hospital employees, and all levels of management Provide Crisis intervention: Respond to emergencies such as Code Blue alerts to provide immediate spiritual and emotional support to patients and families. Provides regular chaplaincy coverage to assigned patient areas. Attends to verbal and non-verbal communication.
Assesses and interprets patient and family spiritual and emotional needs. Responds to emergent pertinent, assessed needs in an appropriate age specific and patient population specific manner. Works non-judgmentally in an unbiased manner with diverse persons from all backgrounds.
Leads religious rituals/services as appropriate with approval of supervisor. Engages in CPE learning in compliance with ACPE standards. Competencies (Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities Required): Excellent communication skills, both oral and written.
Ability to communicate effectively and with empathy. Able to establish and maintain healthy interpersonal relationships. Able to assess needs and reprioritize responsibilities in a complex, dynamic context.
Able to provide some degree of grief support to culturally diverse population. Comfortable navigating a large patient population with diverse spiritual, religious, and emotional needs. Capacity and commitment to developing self-awareness for professional self supervision.
Minimum Education and Experience
Bachelor’s degree required. Master’s degree inTheology or related field preferred. AND
Experience working with people of multiple faiths and cultures strongly preferred. Physical Demands
Disclaimer: This position description provides the major duties/responsibilities, requirements and working conditions for the position. It is intended to be an accurate reflection of the current position, however management reserves the right to revise or change as necessary to meet organizational needs. Other responsibilities may be assigned when circumstances require.
Additional Qualifications Physical Demands
Disclaimer: This position description provides the major duties/responsibilities, requirements and working conditions for the position. It is intended to be an accurate reflection of the current position, however management reserves the right to revise or change as necessary to meet organizational needs. Other responsibilities may be assigned when circumstances require.
Work Shift Workday Day Worker Sub Type Regular Employee Entity Albert Einstein Medical Center Primary Location Address 5501 Old York Road, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America Nationally ranked, Jefferson, which is principally located in the greater Philadelphia region, Lehigh Valley and Northeastern Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey, is reimagining health care and higher education to create unparalleled value.
Jefferson is more than 65,000 people strong, dedicated to providing the highest-quality, compassionate clinical care for patients; making our communities healthier and stronger; preparing tomorrow's professional leaders for 21st-century careers; and creating new knowledge through basic/programmatic, clinical and applied research. Thomas Jefferson University , home of Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Jefferson College of Nursing, and the Kanbar College of Design, Engineering and Commerce, dates back to 1824 and today comprises 10 colleges and three schools offering 200+ undergraduate and graduate programs to more than 8,300 students.
Jefferson Health , nationally ranked as one of the top 15 not-for-profit health care systems in the country and the largest provider in the Philadelphia and Lehigh Valley areas, serves patients through millions of encounters each year at 32 hospitals campuses and more than 700 outpatient and urgent care locations throughout the region. Jefferson Health Plans is a not-for-profit managed health care organization providing a broad range of health coverage options in Pennsylvania and New Jersey for more than 35 years.
Jefferson is committed to providing equal educational and employment opportunities for all persons without regard to age, race, color, religion, creed, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, marital status, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, military status, veteran status, handicap or disability or any other protected group or status. Benefits Jefferson offers a comprehensive package of benefits for full-time and part-time colleagues, including medical (including prescription), supplemental insurance, dental, vision, life and AD&D insurance, short- and long-term disability, flexible spending accounts, retirement plans, tuition assistance, as well as voluntary benefits, which provide colleagues with access to group rates on insurance and discounts.
Colleagues have access to tuition discounts at Thomas Jefferson University after one year of full time service or two years of part time service. All colleagues, including those who work less than part-time (including per diem colleagues, adjunct faculty, and Jeff Temps ), have access to medical (including prescription) insurance. For more benefits information, please click here