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Chaplain Certified II - Spiritual Care

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Description CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Hospital - Westover Hills(CSRH-WH) is a 150-bed hospital serving the fastest-growing area of San Antonio. Specialized care includes orthopedic and surgical services, ICU, women’s services, a newborn nursery, comprehensive cardiovascular care from diagnostics to open heart surgery, vascular lab, sleep center, emergency services, the CHRISTUS Weight Loss Institute, wound care, rehabilitation, and more. The campus also boasts an Outpatient Imaging Center and three medical plazas, one of which houses our CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Family Medicine Residency Program and CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Family Health Center.

Summary Provides timely and sensitive spiritual care to patients, families, associates, and physicians via individual and group interactions; systematically and intentionally gathers data to provide ongoing spiritual assessment of patients or families and develops, implements, and documents spiritual plans of care; participates as a member of interprofessional teams, identifying patient/family needs and developing specialized spiritual care services for specific areas of assignment; plans and facilitates rituals and worship services as needed; collects relevant data to self-monitor quality and effectiveness of spiritual care, and serves as a teaching resource in formal and informal situations about spirituality, spiritual needs of patients and families, and the connection between spirituality and health outcomes; assists with debriefing and support of associates after major events.

Responsibilities

Assesses, provides, and documents effective spiritual care to patients, families, and staff in a variety of situations, including but not limited to crisis intervention, grief and bereavement, end of life care, and faith crises

Systematically and intentionally gathers data to provide on-going spiritual assessment of patients or families

Develops and implements a spiritual plan of care based on spiritual assessment

Documents spiritual assessment and spiritual plan of care in patient’s medical record

Participates as a member of the palliative care team, as assigned

Participates as a member of the interprofessional team identifying patient/family needs and developing plan of care

Plans and facilitates worship services as needed

Provides timely and sensitive spiritual care to associates via individual and group interactions

Collects relevant data to self-monitor quality and effectiveness of spiritual care

Develops specialized spiritual care services for specific areas of assignment

Serves as a teaching resource in formal and informal situations about spirituality, spiritual needs of patients and families, and the connection between spirituality and health outcomes

Assist with debriefing and support of associates after major events

Provides spiritual and religious resources as requested by patient/family

Introduces patient/family to services of the spiritual care department

Contacts community clergy as requested by patient/family

Ability to function effectively under stress, to cope with crises situations, and to respond creatively to a multiplicity of changes

Provides hospitality and assistance to visiting clergy as needed

Serves as ethics resource for patients, family, and associates for a variety of clinical situations, including the removal/withholding of life sustaining treatment

Serves as clinical partner or mentor to clinical pastoral education interns

Understands and adheres to the CHRISTUS Health associate covenant and code of ethics

Respects confidentiality of information from all sources, including patients, family members, other volunteers and CSRHs associates

Demonstrates cultural humility and sensitivity with respect to patient populations served

Performs miscellaneous additional tasks as assigned or requested by director of spiritual cared.

Requirements Education

Master's degree in divinity, theology, pastoral ministry or spirituality required (unless level of degree not required at time of chaplaincy certification)

Completion of a minimum of four units of clinical pastoral education

Experience

Minimum of one year supervised ministry in a clinical setting post certification experiences within specialty area(s), presentations to or with other clinicians preferred

Licenses, Registrations, or Certifications

Certification by APC, NACC, or CPSP

Must be endorsed by leader of their faith community

Work Schedule 6:30AM - 3PM

Work Type Full Time

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