Certified Clinical Chaplain FBM

Facility & Position Details

Facility: Father Baker Manor Sub‑Acute
Shift: Shift 1
Status: Full Time (FTE 1.0)
Bargaining Unit: ACE Associates
Exempt from Overtime: Yes

About the Role

Certified Clinical Chaplains provide crisis intervention, grief counseling, spiritual care, and emotional and psychosocial support to patients, families, and healthcare staff. They mediate between patients and medical teams, help families understand complex medical information, and address holistic, ethical, and existential needs. Integrated into interdisciplinary health‑care teams, chaplains contribute to patient assessments, care plans, interventions, and goal setting, and serve as consultants to clinical teams, service lines, and other departments. They also educate students, residents, nurses, fellows, and interns, and lead quality‑improvement initiatives such as Complex Care Committees, Schwartz Rounds, and Ethics Committees. Chaplains support patients and families across all settings—including home care, long‑term care, sub‑acute, palliative care, the LIFE program, and Adult Day Care—and document all encounters in the electronic medical record.

Responsibilities

• Provide crisis intervention, grief counseling, spiritual care, and emotional/psychosocial support to patients, families, and staff.
• Mediate between patients and medical teams and help families understand complex medical information.
• Serve as a consultant to primary clinical teams, service lines, and other departments, participating in program development and quality‑improvement initiatives.
• Educate and mentor students, residents, nurses, fellows, and interns in spiritual assessment and care, especially for palliative‑care patients.
• Lead and contribute to Complex Care Committees, Schwartz Rounds, Ethics Committees, and other interdisciplinary forums.
• Coordinate resources and services to meet individual patient and family spiritual and emotional needs.
• Facilitate Critical Incident Stress Debriefing (CISD) and provide emotional support after traumatic events.
• Conduct age‑appropriate assessments, interventions, and data collection for patients’ and families’ spiritual and emotional care plans.
• Document all patient encounters in the electronic medical record.
• Provide spiritual care across Home Care, long‑term care facilities (including sub‑acute and palliative care), the LIFE program, and Adult Day Care.
• Maintain confidentiality and comply with HIPAA regulations.
• Lead and coordinate prayer services, group facilitation, and critical incident stress management.
• Train, educate, mentor, and supervise students and staff.
• Utilize advanced computer skills for charting, research, email, and departmental programming.

Education & Certification Requirements

• Master’s‑level degree in theological, pastoral ministry, pastoral care, religious studies, or a related field.
• Current certification by a professional national certifying agency for chaplaincy.
• Ecclesiastical endorsement in good standing, consistent with the code of ethics for spiritual care professionals.
• Four (4) units of Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) credits.
• Palliative Care Certification obtained within two (2) years through a national certifying organization (e.g., BCCI‑BCC‑PCHAC, SCA‑APBCC‑HPC, or CSU Shiley Institute for Palliative Care).

Experience Requirements

• Ten (10) years of experience in health‑care ministry (recommended).
• Twenty (20) Continuing Education Units (CEU) annually.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• High‑level interpersonal, facilitative, and communication skills.
• Advanced theological reflection and conflict‑resolution abilities.
• Expertise in crisis intervention and ethical discernment processes.
• Knowledge of current research in spiritual care and medical ethics.
• Commitment to the Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services.
• Familiarity with a full range of theologies and ecclesiologies.
• Strong pastoral identity, emotional and spiritual maturity.
• Ability to maintain professional and personal confidentiality and HIPAA compliance.
• Flexibility in work hours, programs, services, and sites.
• Effective teamwork within interdisciplinary settings.
• Strong verbal and written communication, presentation, and teaching skills.
• Ability to lead and coordinate prayer services and group facilitation.
• Capability to train, educate, mentor, and supervise students.
• Knowledge of Advanced Directives policy and ability to facilitate related discussions.
• Skill in developing and implementing spiritual care plans.
• Advanced computer proficiency for charting, research, email, and departmental programming.
• Valid driver’s license.

Schedule

Days with call on weekends and holidays; rotation hours: 7.5 hours per day, Monday – Friday.