Chaplain

Worker Type: PRN

Department: Spiritual Care Services

About the role

Chaplains provide compassionate emotional, spiritual, and pastoral support to patients, families, and caregivers during times of illness, crisis, and life‑changing events. This PRN position assists with time‑off coverage of other staff and may be utilized on all shifts (days, evenings, nights, weekends) and requires 1 CPE credit.

Responsibilities

• Meet the spiritual and emotional needs of patients and families through timely assessment, intervention, and communication.
• Collaborate with co‑workers to accomplish departmental goals and help balance workload, as measured by employee satisfaction.
• Respond to physician referrals on the same day they are received, contributing to medical staff satisfaction.
• Report all safety and security risks to maintain a safe environment.
• Intervene in crisis situations to support patients, families, and co‑workers with initial spiritual and emotional issues.
• Support the department’s financial performance by following policies and procedures, working efficiently, and reporting needed changes.
• Cover on‑call shifts as assigned and work in a constant state of alertness and safety.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree.
• One CPE unit (required).
• At least one year of relevant experience.

Physical Requirements

• Frequent lifting, carrying, pushing, or pulling objects weighing 0‑25 lb.
• Frequent sitting, standing, walking, reaching, and repetitive foot/leg and hand/arm movements.
• Frequent use of vision and depth perception for near (≈20 in) and far (≈20 ft) distances, and color discrimination.
• Frequent use of hearing and speech to share information orally; ability to hear alarms and machinery.
• Frequent keyboard use/data entry.
• Occasional bending, stooping, kneeling, squatting, twisting, and gripping.
• Occasional lifting, carrying, pushing, or pulling objects weighing 25‑50 lb.
• Rare climbing.

Schedule

PRN as needed; may be assigned to days, evenings, nights, and weekends.