Spiritual Health Clinician

Job Summary

An Emory spiritual health clinician (formerly chaplain) facilitates and provides spiritual care and counseling for a designated treatment inpatient and/or outpatient treatment area or for a system clinical service line. Primary Duties And Responsibilities:

• May provide consultation on ethical issues.
• May provide individual and group counseling sessions and crisis intervention.
• May develop and facilitate various support groups.
• Plans and conducts religious services when needs indicate.
• Participates in or chairs various multi-disciplined hospital committees.
• Assists in planning, implementing, and evaluating established spiritual health programs, policies and procedures.
• Affirms and identifies areas for program development and assists in establishing new research, training and innovative intervention initiatives.
• Contributes to writing and publishing in professional journals when indicated.
• May teach or lecture by invitation.
• Prepares and conducts workshops and discussion groups on topics related to clinical spiritual health.
• Will be responsible to participate in patient treatment plans, multi-disciplinary rounds and periodic on-call.
• Provides care for staff to help in ameliorating burnout and to increase resilience and team cohesion.

Education

• Minimum Qualifications: A Masters of Divinity or qualifying graduate degree that meets criteria for BCCI, Inc. (BCC) board certification. Ordination or endorsement by an acknowledged faith tradition. Four consecutive units of ACPE, Inc. clinical spiritual health education (CPE) with demonstrated competence.

Experience

• Specialty areas require previous health care experience in the designated service (i.e. mental health, geriatrics, pediatrics) and may require certification by one or more certifying agencies.

Certification

• Expectations within the first 1.5 years are to complete BCCI, Inc. board certification (BCC) foundational preparation in Cognitively Based Compassion Training (CBCT's) and become a registered clinician in Compassion-Centered Spiritual Health (CCSH's).