Southern NH Health System - Chaplain - Pastoral Care - Per Diem

About the role

The Chaplain provides spiritual, emotional, existential, and religious support to patients, families, and staff in accordance with the mission, values, and standards of Southern New Hampshire Health (SNHH). The Chaplain offers care that is respectful of each person’s beliefs, culture, tradition, identity, and spiritual or non-spiritual worldview.

Responsibilities

• Provide spiritual, emotional, and existential care to patients, families, and staff in response to illness, crisis, trauma, grief, death, uncertainty, moral distress, and major life transitions.
• Participate in on-call coverage, including weekday, overnight, weekend, and holiday rotation as assigned by the department.
• Must be able to work assigned shifts and adapt to changing patient care needs.
• Respond promptly to urgent and emergent requests, including deaths, codes, traumas, end-of-life situations, family crises, staff crises, and other time-sensitive spiritual care needs.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in theology, Spiritual Care, Religious Studies, or a closely related field required.
• A minimum of two (2) units of Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) is required.

Benefits

• Health, dental, prescription, and vision coverage for full-time & part-time employees
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Life insurance
• Short- and long-term disability
• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
• Competitive pay
• Tuition & Certification Reimbursement
• Nursing Student Loan Paydown Program
• 403(b) Retirement Savings Plan
• Education & Paid training courses for continued career progression