Chaplain Resident

Description

Chaplain Resident is to provide spiritual care services to patients, families, and staff of RRUCLA Medical Center while participating in a year of Clinical Pastoral Education for the professional development of spiritual leadership and pastoral / spiritual care skills.

This is a contract position and may be extended or converted to Career depending on the needs of the department.

Salary Range : $28.30-54.74 / hour

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree, Masters preferred, and a unit of Clinical Pastoral Education (or equivalency, as determined by the Director of Spiritual Care Department).
• Pastoral care / spiritual care skills and experience.
• Willingness and ability to engage in pastoral / spiritual care-giving to persons of any faith group.
• Sensitivity to diverse religious, spiritual, and cultural practices and values.
• Ability to respond to people of diverse backgrounds in a caring and compassionate way, enabling them to make decisions, accept loss, and cope with crisis situations.
• Ability to function effectively in crisis or under stress.
• Capable of theological and spiritual reflection with persons.
• Ability to establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with other staff members, managers, volunteers, administrators, patients, and families.
• Ability to articulate and communicate spiritual and / or religious needs of patients to the multi-disciplinary health care team and to other chaplains / spiritual care-givers.
• Ability to work collegially with and to appreciate community religious leaders and their gifts to the hospital spiritual care and ministry.
• Willingness to engage in the Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) program with openness and intentionality.
• Ability to be organized, responsible, and dependable.
• Flexibility, genuineness, sensitivity, and willingness to assist in other areas of pastoral / spiritual care duties.
• Ability to be mobile and function with overnight on-call responsibilities.