Chaplain - Sharp Metropolitan Campus - Variable Shift - Per Diem

Schedule

Shift start time: Variable; shift end time: Variable. 8‑hour shift (8/40). Weekend availability needed on an as‑needed basis. No on‑call requirement.

Pay

Hourly pay range: $40.51 – $52.28 – $58.55. The actual rate depends on experience, skills, education, internal alignment, market factors, and other requirements.

Responsibilities

• Provide spiritual care and counseling to patients, families, and team members, respecting cultural, gender, sexual orientation, and religious diversity.
• Deliver on‑call spiritual services as needed.
• For Sharp Memorial, support the entire Sharp Metropolitan Medical Campus, including Sharp Memorial Hospital, Sharp Mary Birch Hospital for Women and Newborns, and Sharp Mesa Vista.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree.
• Successful completion of at least 4 units of ACPE Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) (hospice requirement: 1 unit of CPE).

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s Degree of Divinity or related field (or equivalent for Board Certification by endorsing faith group).
• At least 1 year of experience as a healthcare chaplain.
• Experience in an acute‑care hospital setting.
• Board certification (strongly preferred) by APC or NACC, or eligibility and active pursuit of such certification.

Essential Functions

• Assessments: Conduct spiritual assessments, formulate interventions, outcomes, and care plans; document within the shift (hospice assessments within 5 days).
• Clinical Skills: Provide individual and group spiritual care; deliver crisis intervention (including Code Blue and trauma codes); assist with bioethical issues, organ donation, advance directives, and treatment decisions; perform rituals for newborns, end‑of‑life, memorials, and other supportive services.
• Caseload Management: Set daily priorities, adjust schedule based on patient/family needs, communicate priorities to spiritual care staff, and establish visit frequencies with timeframes.
• Customer Service: Communicate positively and promptly with staff, physicians, patients, and visitors; maintain relationships with community clergy, CPE students, and volunteers; provide orientation, scheduling, and supervision of volunteers; handle problems professionally.
• Documentation: Record all spiritual care visits in the electronic medical record and complete any additional departmental documentation.
• Other duties as assigned.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Ability to work collaboratively in a multidisciplinary environment.
• Excellent clinical skills and ability to minister to persons of diverse cultural and religious backgrounds.
• Strong teaching abilities for in‑services, presentations, and related work.
• Capability to initiate new programs and organize/oversee existing ones.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office and electronic medical record systems.
• Basic understanding of medical terminology and diagnoses.
• Bilingual (English/Spanish) preferred.