Staff Chaplain (Full-Time - Sacred Heart Campus) - Allentown Pennsylvania

Company: St. Luke's University Health Network
Location: Allentown, Pennsylvania
Posted On: 01/18/2025

St. Luke's is proud of the skills, experience and compassion of its employees. The employees of St. Luke's are our most valuable asset! Individually and together, our employees are dedicated to satisfying the mission of our organization which is an unwavering commitment to excellence as we care for the sick and injured; educate physicians, nurses and other health care providers; and improve access to care in the communities we serve, regardless of a patient's ability to pay for health care.
The Staff Chaplain will coordinate the health care ministries including spiritual care activities (Behavior Health Spirituality Groups) and spiritual care services to patients, families, and staff of the campus. Supervises all volunteer chaplains, coordinates the ministry of community clergy and provides spiritual care and consultation to patients/families and hospital and medical staff. Maintains professional and denominational credentials and certifications.
JOB DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Provides pastoral care and consultation to patients, families, hospital and medical staff in individual, family and/or group context.
• Maintains daily statistics on consults/pages responded to.
• Provides appropriate referrals to members of the multidisciplinary healthcare team and to community resources and clergy.
• Performs spiritual assessment and care during pastoral visits and documents such.
• Regularly attends to hospital staff's emotional and spiritual well being.
• Provides for emergency counseling and sacramental needs; individual and unit-based.
• Coordinates and prioritizes 24-hour pastoral care delivered by the departmental staff, trainees and volunteers.
• Oversees statistical reporting of department and follow-up on individual pastoral care plans of volunteers; collaborates with coordinator of education regarding the pastoral care activities and services of trainees.
• Coordinates the development and implementation of spiritual assessment and care methods/approaches for in-patient care.
• In conjunction with the director, develops pastoral care QI surveys and studies. Responsible to review and collate data and recommend appropriate pastoral care adjustments, as needed.
• Promotes, maintains and supervises the department's volunteer chaplain groups, which include associate chaplains and other volunteers.
• Provides didactics, as needed, for increased professional functioning.
• Maintains current jobs descriptions for and evaluates pastoral care volunteers.
• Provides staff education and support on spiritual, ethical and emotional dimensions of health care practice.
• Develops and leads unit-based didactics regarding bereavement issues, normal grieving, etc.
• Encourages unit-based case review for ethical dilemmas.
• Raises staff's awareness, via education, of spiritual needs of patients, families and themselves.
• Provides supervision regarding direct pastoral care activities.
• Provides didactic seminars, as requested, by coordinator of education and/or CPE trainees.
• Provides conjoint visitation.
• Remains current with literature on pastoral issues and spiritual assessment.
• Participates in hospital committees relevant to patient care.
• Maintains working knowledge regarding organ donations, Pennsylvania.
• Self-Determination Act and ethical dilemmas; Ethics Committee, Nursing Ethics, Decisions of Life. Participates in hospital committees relevant to patient care.
• Identifies concerns and formulates method to address pastoral care concerns in ICU and critical care subcommittee.
• Demonstrates a capacity to access appropriate information from patient's chart as part of spiritual assessment and a capacity to add the Pastoral Care Treatment Plan and notes to the chart.
  PHYSICAL AND SENSORY REQUIREMENTS:
  Sitting up to 7 hours a day; 2 hours at a time, with times of standing or walking. Uses fingers and hands frequently. Occasionally carries up to 10 pounds. Occasionally stoops, bends, squats, kneels or reaches above shoulder level. Hearing in normal conversation. Seeing, as it relates to general vision.
  EDUCATION:
  M.Div. degree from accredited ATS school or equivalency (board certification).
  TRAINING AND EXPERIENCE:
  One year residency in an accredited ACPE center; two units of such training to at the Level II level in acute care context. Two to five years of hospital chaplaincy experience or its equivalent.
  Please complete your application using your full legal name and -current home address. -Be sure to -include -employment history for -the past seven (7) years, including your present employer. - Additionally, you are -encouraged to upload a current resume, including all work history, education, and/or certifications and -licenses, if applicable. -It is highly recommended that you create a profile at the conclusion of submitting your first application. -Thank you for your interest in St. Luke's!! More...

      

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