Associate Chaplain Flex

Purpose

The Associate Chaplain provides spiritual care, counseling, and crisis intervention for patients, families, and team members of Children's Hospital Colorado (CHCO) in collaboration with staff chaplains and Spiritual Care leadership.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Assesses the source of internal strength (spiritual or faith tradition) for patients, families, and team members.
• Responds to spiritual care needs and requests while on-call related to illness, trauma, crisis, end of life, stress, and loss.
• Documents interventions and services provided.
• Performs religious rites, services, as requested by patients and/or families, and acts as a resource collaborating with community faith leaders.
• Collaborates with staff chaplains and Spiritual Care leadership to assess the need for crisis debriefing and coordinates with organizational resources for staff spiritual resilience.
• Provides spiritual care materials for the support of patients and families.
• Supports team members with their spiritual resiliency and compassion development in collaboration with staff chaplains.
• Provides spiritual services in alignment with departmental and organizational objectives and strategies.
• Participates in departmental meetings and projects as assigned.

Population Specific Care

• Neonate -
• Infancy - >30 days to 1yr
• Toddlers - >1yr to 3yrs
• Pre-Schoolers - >3yrs to 5yrs
• School age - >5yrs to 13yrs
• Adolescent - >13yrs to 18yrs
• Adult - >18yrs to 65yrs
• Older Adult 65 yrs +

Qualifications

• Successfully completed or currently enrolled in a Master of Divinity, Pastoral Counseling, Theology, or related field degree program;
• Completed at least one unit of Clinical Pastoral Education at an ACPE accredited teaching center.

Benefits

As a Children’s Hospital Colorado team member, you will receive a competitive pay and benefits package designed to take care of your needs that includes base pay, incentives, paid sick leave and a robust wellness program. As part of our Total Rewards package, Children's Colorado offers an annual employee bonus program that rewards eligible team members based on organizational performance. If organizational goals are met for the year, the bonus is paid out the following April. Children’s Colorado delivers annual base pay increases to eligible team members based on their performance over the previous year.