Job description
We are recruiting for a Chaplain - PRN to join our team!
We are here for life’s journey.
Where is your life journey taking you?
Being the heartbeat of Denver means our heart reflects something bigger than ourselves, something that connects us all:
Humanity in action, Triumph in hardship, Transformation in health.
Education:
Licenses:
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
Denver Health values the unique ideas, talents and contributions reflective of the needs of our community. For read more about our commitment to diversity visit:
We are here for life’s journey.
Where is your life journey taking you?
Being the heartbeat of Denver means our heart reflects something bigger than ourselves, something that connects us all:
Humanity in action, Triumph in hardship, Transformation in health.
Department
Pastoral Care and Education
Job Summary
Under minimal supervision, functions as a Spiritual Care Specialist in assessing for, providing and administering clinical interfaith spiritual care to patients, family, and staff of Denver Health who are in spiritual and/or emotional distress in the midst of trauma, stress, crisis, illness and/or medical treatment.
Essential Functions:
Under minimal supervision, functions as a Spiritual Care Specialist in assessing for, providing and administering clinical interfaith spiritual care to patients, family, and staff of Denver Health who are in spiritual and/or emotional distress in the midst of trauma, stress, crisis, illness and/or medical treatment.
Essential Functions:
- As a member of the multi-disciplinary health care team, provides appropriate interfaith spiritual care services to critical, chronic and terminally ill patients and their families to help alleviate the anxieties or spiritual distress in the midst of trauma, illness, hospitalization or crisis. Demonstrated by:
- Participates as part of a team of chaplains in providing 24 hour, 7 day a week professional spiritual care.
- Is visible, available and accessible to patients, family and staff on the floor.
- Responds to all spiritual care consults and referrals by the interdisciplinary care team.
- Does necessary follow-up.
- Makes routine inpatient rounds on units to determine the spiritual needs of patients and families.
- Actively participates in unit rounds and family conferences in areas and cases assigned.
- Responds to out-patient visits when necessary or consulted by an out-patient clinic on the main campus.
- Does proper spiritual assessment and documentation in the electronic medical record.
- Attends and actively participates in all staff and department meetings.
- Assists in the mentoring of student chaplain interns.
- Participates, when asked, in continuing education to keep spiritual care competencies and skills current.
- Participates in performance improvement and department initiatives that strive to implement the department's strategic plan, mission, vision, and values.
- Demonstrates ability and conducts interfaith chapel, bedside rituals or ceremonies, as needed or assigned in accordance with the patient’s spiritual preference.
- Uses time, resources and other assets of Denver Health and the Chaplain Department responsibility and appropriately.
- Participates in yearly performance and competency review.
- Participates in and provides, as appropriate, spiritual and emotional care to employees of Denver Health. Demonstrated by:
- Is trained in and provides staff group critical incident stress management intervention when necessary or requested.
- Is trained in Resilience in Stressful Events (RISE), psychological first aid and provides care to the caregiver by responding as staff peer responder when staff experience stressful events.
- Informally support staff who experience emotional, spiritual or moral distress.
Education:
- Completed or currently studying in a Master’s level theological degree, from a theological or divinity school accredited by member of the Council of Higher Education Accreditation required.
- M.Div. or MA, preferred.
- One unit (level I) of Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) accredited by the Association of Clinical Pastoral Education (ACPE)required.
Work Experience:
- 1-3 years of pastoral experience in addition to CPE training or education-related internships, preferred and
- Spiritual care experience in healthcare, clinical bioethics, trauma and disaster response, critical incident and peer support, palliative care or hospice care, preferred.
Licenses:
- Good standing and Letter of Endorsement or letter of recommendation from applicant’s faith group*required. (*Ordinarily faith groups must be recognized by the National Conference on Ministry to the Armed Forces (NCMAF) or by the Yearbook of American & Canadian Churches).
- Board Certification (BCC) and active membership with a nationally recognized spiritual care association such as the Association of Professional Chaplains (APC) or similar (Ordinarily an association ascribing to the Certification for Professional Spiritual Care: Common Qualifications and Competencies) highly preferred.
- Evidence of Ordination, Licensing, Commissioning or holding of sanctioned function or office within applicant’s faith group preferred.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Sufficient knowledge and ability to provide interfaith spiritual care and services.
- Sufficient knowledge of a diversity of spirituality and religion.
- Understands the difference between spirituality and religion and spiritual and religious care.
- Understands the dynamic and importance of inclusion and diversity.
- Understands spiritual needs around of end of life issues & decisions, advance directives.
- Understands the grief process.
- Understands the “second victim” phenomena.
- Understands faith and spiritual development.
- Has a working knowledge of Trauma Informed Care.
- Must be able to accurately assess patients’ spiritual needs, sense of well-being, sense of meaning and purpose, spiritual resources, find appropriate solutions to meet patient and family needs and integrate objectives into a patient’s plan of care.
- Able to practice active reflective listening and non-judgmental pastoral presence.
- Interact professionally and practice excellent verbal and written communication skills in relating with patients, family/visitors and community.
- Help others deal effectively with an antagonistic situation to minimize damage to the relationships and promote shared goals; using appropriate interpersonal methods to reduce tension or conflict between two or more people and facilitate agreement.
- Meet personal needs of individuals to build trust, encourage two-way communication, and strengthen relationships.
- Work collaboratively with others to help a team achieve objectives.
- Develop relationships within and across work groups to achieve results.
- Apply new job-related information and improvement in timely manner.
- Effectively managing one’s time and resources to ensure that work is completed efficiently.
- Be flexible and adaptable and maintain effectiveness in an ever changing and fast-paced environment.
- Extend oneself to initiate, build and cultivate healthy, productive relationships with co-workers and colleagues.
- Exercise initiative, good decision making and problem-solving related to routine or emergent spiritual care.
- Manage stress and conflict.
- Stable performance and calm demeanor under pressure.
- Maintain professional boundaries.
- Provide good customer service.
- Establish and sustain trusting relationships by accurately perceiving and interpreting own and others’ emotions and behavior; leveraging insights to effectively manage own responses so that one’s behavior matches one’s values and delivers intended results.
- Able to think strategically, triage, and work well under pressure and often stressful traumatic situations.
- Promote spiritual care through a strong compassionate pastoral presence based on values of confidently, dignity, respect, collaboration, stewardship, excellence and integrity.
- Spanish language skills preferred.
- Computer skills required. Able to document in English in the electronic medical record using EPIC.
Shift
Varies (United States of America)
Work Type
PRN/Intermittent
Salary
$58,900.00 - $85,500.00 / yr
Benefits
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Competitive pay
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Outstanding benefits
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Education opportunities
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Shared leadership and advancement opportunity
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State-of-the-art facilities
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Immediate retirement plan matching
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Professional clinical advancement program
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Participation in evidence-based projects
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Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) eligible employer
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National Health Service Corps (NHCS) and Colorado Health Service Corps (CHSC) eligible employer
Our Values
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Excellence– We are better every day
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Compassion– We care for everyone
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Relentlessness– We fight for everyone
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Stewardship– We use resources responsibly
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Learning– We educate the next generation
All job applicants for safety-sensitive positions must pass a pre-employment drug test, once a conditional offer of employment has been made.
Denver Health is an integrated, high-quality academic health care system considered a model for the nation that includes a Level I Trauma Center, a 555-bed acute care medical center, Denver’s 911 emergency medical response system, 10 family health centers, 19 school-based health centers, Rocky Mountain Poison & Drug Safety, a Public Health Institute, an HMO and The Denver Health Foundation.
As Colorado’s primary, and essential, safety-net institution, Denver Health is a mission-driven organization that has provided billions in uncompensated care for the uninsured. Denver Health is viewed as an Anchor Institution for the community, focusing on hiring and purchasing locally as applicable, serving as a pillar for community needs, and caring for more than 185,000 individuals and 67,000 children a year.
Located near downtown Denver, Denver Health is just minutes away from many of the cultural and recreational activities Denver has to offer.
We strongly support diversity in the workforce and Denver Health is an equal opportunity employer (EOE).
Denver Health is an integrated, high-quality academic health care system considered a model for the nation that includes a Level I Trauma Center, a 555-bed acute care medical center, Denver’s 911 emergency medical response system, 10 family health centers, 19 school-based health centers, Rocky Mountain Poison & Drug Safety, a Public Health Institute, an HMO and The Denver Health Foundation.
As Colorado’s primary, and essential, safety-net institution, Denver Health is a mission-driven organization that has provided billions in uncompensated care for the uninsured. Denver Health is viewed as an Anchor Institution for the community, focusing on hiring and purchasing locally as applicable, serving as a pillar for community needs, and caring for more than 185,000 individuals and 67,000 children a year.
Located near downtown Denver, Denver Health is just minutes away from many of the cultural and recreational activities Denver has to offer.
We strongly support diversity in the workforce and Denver Health is an equal opportunity employer (EOE).
Denver Health values the unique ideas, talents and contributions reflective of the needs of our community. For read more about our commitment to diversity visit:
https://www.denverhealth.org/for-professionals/careers/diversity-and-inclusion
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