Job Description

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.

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.

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 ongoing 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
• Assists 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, cope with crises situations, and 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 Care.

Requirements:

Education:

• High School Diploma or GED required
• Master's degree in divinity, theology, pastoral ministry or spirituality preferred (unless level of degree not required at time of chaplaincy certification) completion of a minimum of four units of clinical pastoral education

Experience:

• Supervised experience within a clinical pastoral education program required

Licenses, Registrations, or Certifications

• If not yet certified by one of the national certifying bodies (APC, NACC, or CPSP), must obtain certification within two years of hire must be endorsed by leader of their faith community

Work Type:

Full Time

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