Chaplain

About the role

The position is located at Illiana VA Medical Center in Danville, Illinois, providing chaplain services across various settings including Veterans Integrated Service Networks, Inpatient Clinics, and Outpatient Clinics.

Responsibilities

• Serves as a primary Chaplain resource, spiritual advisor, and liaison for the spiritual needs of patients, caregivers, and staff.
• Conducts comprehensive religious services and pastoral ministry, and administers Chaplain services.
• Provides emotional support and counseling using empathy and strong interpersonal skills to effectively connect with people of all ages.
• Builds strong interpersonal relationships with patients and ensures all patients are provided opportunities for the free exercise of religion.
• Serves as a professional clinical Chaplain in specialty clinics.
• Provides pastoral counseling on medical and ethical matters, including moral injury, problems of conscience, family or marital difficulties, justice or confinement matters, terminal diagnoses, or crises.
• Counsels patients with long-term health illnesses to aid in developing and maintaining patience, determination, and perseverance.

Requirements

Basic Requirements: United States Citizenship, English Language Proficiency, Education, Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE), Ecclesiastical Endorsement, Certification.

Qualifications

• Master of Divinity degree or equivalent educational qualifications from a recognized institution.
• Four units of Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) from an accredited center.
• Ecclesiastical endorsement from the official national endorsing authority of the applicant's faith group or denomination.
• Board-certified as a Chaplain by BCCI ® or a U.S. certifying body with a reciprocity agreement with BCCI ®.
• Demonstrated advanced practice and/or specialization in chaplaincy beyond the board certification.

Skills

Ability to apply relevant theories and methodologies to their ministry specialty, integrate specialized psychological and sociological theory with an advanced approach to spiritual care, seek out primary research and research literature that informs the ministry specialty and one's spiritual care practice, develop and implement methods for measuring effectiveness of chaplain practice and services in the specialty area, mediate conflict, hold various emotions, and diffuse moral distress among staff and complex crisis situations, provide specialized consultation, teaching, and mentoring to colleagues and students on advanced spiritual care interventions in the service delivery area, apply advanced clinical knowledge to write policies, procedures, and/or practice guidelines pertaining to the service delivery area, experience in Palliative Care and Community Care Settings preferred.

Benefits

N/A

Pay

N/A

Schedule

Intermittent