Chaplain Associate

Job Summary and Responsibilities

As a Chaplain Associate, you will be a beacon of compassionate spiritual care, profoundly impacting patient recovery and well-being during critical times. Every day, you will facilitate connections, offer comfort, and provide essential chaplaincy services to nurture the holistic healing journey for patients and their families.

• Promotes connections and offers comfort to patients, loved ones, and staff through pastoral/spiritual care.
• Completes spiritual assessments and communicates with other care team members.
• Provides clinical documentation as required.
• Responds to and initiates routine and emergency referrals in a timely manner.
• Collaborates with the local religious community to ensure the patient’s/loved ones’ spiritual and/or sacramental needs are being met.
• Coordinates spiritual/pastoral ministry and bereavement care for those approaching end of life and at death.
• Provides blessing/ritual/prayer for pastoral support upon request.

Job Requirements

• Completion of one or more units of Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE)
• Preferred Bachelors Other, upon hire and Masters Other or equivalency in theology, behavioral science, ministry or related field
• One to three years of pastoral ministry or related experience under institutional supervision, upon hire

Where You'll Work

CHI Health St. Elizabeth, founded by the Sisters of St. Francis of Perpetual Adoration in 1889, is a full-service, 260-bed, nonprofit regional medical center in Lincoln, Neb. St. Elizabeth specializes in the treatment areas of newborn and pediatric care, women’s health, burn and wound, cardiology, oncology, emergency medicine, orthopedics and neuroscience.

Pay Range

$20.86 - $29.46 /hour