Resident-Pastoral Education-1

About the role

As an integrated team member, the chaplain resident provides spiritual, emotional, and religious support to patients, families, and staff; participates in Clinical Pastoral Education Program activities, completes required readings and written work, delivers spiritual care on assigned units or by referral, and provides overnight, weekend, holiday, and regular on-call coverage in rotation with other residents. The chaplain works professionally within the interdisciplinary care team, charts in patient records, collaborates with Spiritual Care Staff, and engages in self‑care while meeting the rigorous demands of the CPE residency.

Responsibilities

• Interact with co‑workers, visitors, and staff consistent with Jefferson’s values.
• Apply learning from the Clinical Pastoral Education Program to assess spiritual/emotional needs and decide how to assist individuals directly or indirectly.
• Tolerate, develop skills, engage with, and navigate spiritual care provision with emotional stamina and coping skills for potentially traumatic situations.
• Communicate in the context of the other person’s frame of reference and language skills.
• Relate comfortably and supportively with patients, families, physicians, hospital employees, and all levels of management.
• Provide crisis intervention: respond to emergencies such as Code Blue alerts to offer immediate spiritual and emotional support.
• Provide regular chaplaincy coverage to assigned patient areas.
• Attend to verbal and non‑verbal communication; assess and interpret patient and family spiritual and emotional needs.
• Respond to emergent, assessed needs in an age‑specific and patient‑population‑specific manner.
• Work non‑judgmentally and without bias with diverse persons from all backgrounds.
• Lead religious rituals/services as appropriate with supervisor approval.
• Engage in CPE learning in compliance with ACPE standards.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree required. Master’s degree in Theology or a related field preferred. Experience working with people of multiple faiths and cultures strongly preferred.

Qualifications

Excellent oral and written communication skills; ability to communicate effectively and with empathy; ability to establish and maintain healthy interpersonal relationships; ability to assess needs and reprioritize responsibilities in a complex, dynamic context; ability to provide grief support to culturally diverse populations; comfort navigating a large patient population with diverse spiritual, religious, and emotional needs; capacity and commitment to developing self‑awareness for professional self‑supervision.

Benefits

Jefferson offers a comprehensive benefits package for full‑time and part‑time colleagues, including medical (prescription included), supplemental insurance, dental, vision, life and AD&D insurance, short‑ and long‑term disability, flexible spending accounts, retirement plans, tuition assistance, and voluntary benefits providing group rates on insurance and discounts. Colleagues receive tuition discounts at Thomas Jefferson University after one year of full‑time service or two years of part‑time service. All colleagues, including those working less than part‑time (per diem, adjunct faculty, Jeff Temps), have access to medical (prescription) insurance.

Schedule

Work shift: Workday Day (United States of America).