Chaplain - Huntsman Cancer Hospital

Responsibilities

• Completes spiritual needs assessments and formulates interventions strategies based on professional best practice guidelines for addressing spiritual care needs.
• Actively collaborates with all members of the treatment team, furthering team-based understanding of significant spiritual needs and spiritual/emotional factors contributing to the patient's well-being.
• Provides spiritual care support to hospital staff in times of crisis, death, or difficult diagnoses per hospital and professional protocols.
• Provides spiritually appropriate counseling or guidance in individual and group settings, affirming the dignity and autonomy of an individual’s own orientation to spirituality and/or religion.
• Conducts and/or assists in coordination of individual, communal, and/or public religious rituals including prayer, spiritually-informed mindfulness/centering, baptisms, weddings, seasonal worship services, and at end-of-life.
• Liaises between patients/families and community-faith leaders to coordinate tradition-specific spiritual care.

Requirements

• Demonstrated progress towards Board Certification eligibility by the Association of Professional Chaplains or other nationally recognized certifying body (NACC, NAJC, CACC).
• Endorsement and good-standing with an APC-recognized faith-body.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated progress towards Board Certification eligibility by the Association of Professional Chaplains or other nationally recognized certifying body (NACC, NAJC, CACC).
• Endorsement and good-standing with an APC-recognized faith-body.
• At least one year experience working in a Trauma Level I or II level hospital (preferred).
• Bi-lingual in English and Spanish (preferred).