Chaplain 2 - Daytime Shifts

About Us

Here at Baylor Scott & White Health we promote the well-being of all individuals, families, and communities. Baylor Scott and White is the largest not-for-profit healthcare system in Texas that empowers you to live well.

Our Core Values:

• We serve faithfully by doing what's right with a joyful heart.
• We never settle by constantly striving for better.
• We are in it together by supporting one another and those we serve.
• We make an impact by taking initiative and delivering exceptional experience.

Job Summary

The Chaplain 2 offers advanced spiritual care as part of a holistic, multidisciplinary team. Provides compassionate spiritual and emotional support for all Baylor Scott & White Health patients, family members, and staff, regardless of faith background or religious affiliation. Participates in staff training and professional development. Oversees volunteers and residents.

Responsibilities

• Plans, coordinates, organizes, and conducts religious services for patients, families, and staff. This includes weekly worship, memorial services, baptisms, weddings, anointing, and coordinating bereavement needs.
• Provides counseling and other spiritual education activities for employees, students, and patients.
• Supports the end-of-life care for patients by offering pastoral support and counseling to patients and families.
• Partners with physicians, nurses, social workers, counselors, and staff. They form an interdisciplinary team to assess patient needs and improve care.
• Conducts a pastoral assessment of a patient's spiritual and emotional status and the need for spiritual care.
• Develops relationships with local churches, community agencies, and service organizations. Supports the Baylor Scott & White Health community. Recruits, trains, and coordinates pastoral care volunteers.
• Documents and maintains records of spiritual counseling for patients.

Key Success Factors

• Knowledge of philosophical systems and religions.
• Knowledge of the methods and methods of pastoral care and the role of a chaplain in an institutional setting.
• Knowledge of the religious beliefs and practices of various faiths, groups, and denominations.
• Able to communicate thoughts clearly; both verbally and in writing.
• Listening skills.
• Skill in counseling patients, family members and staff.
• Ability to counsel people during periods of stress.
• Ability to passionately participate as a member of a professional therapeutic team.
• Denominational endorsement for chaplaincy, ordination or commissioning to ministry preferred.

Qualifications

• EDUCATION - Masters' or Bachelors plus 2 years of work experience above the minimum qualification
• EXPERIENCE - 2 Years of Experience
• CERTIFICATION/LICENSE/REGISTRATION - Board Cert Chaplain (BCC): BCC may be applied to required years of experience.

Benefits

• Immediate eligibility for health and welfare benefits
• 401(k) savings plan with dollar-for-dollar match up to 5%
• Tuition Reimbursement
• PTO accrual beginning Day 1