Chaplain Details

Chaplain

Saint Joseph Hospital - Denver, CO

Employment Type : Full-Time

You.

You bring your body, mind, heart and spirit to your work as a Hospital Chaplain.

Your compassion is tangible: whether your patient is 18 or 85, they feel it in the hand they hold. Families feel it in your prayers. Colleagues feel it in your support.

You’re generous with your compassion, your empathy and especially your ability to listen to others as you work with associates, patients and their families during especially challenging times.

Us.

Saint Joseph Hospital is looking for Overnight Chaplains to join our Spiritual Care Team. This is a full-time benefited position. Chaplains will work 36 hours each week in three 12 hour shifts. Shifts will be from 6:30pm to 6:30am.

Saint Joseph Hospital is part of SCL Health, a faith-based, nonprofit healthcare organization that focuses on person-centered care. Our 365-bed facility is one of the top-ranked hospitals in Denver, and has been awarded the highest national recognition possible for nursing excellence – Magnet designation – by the ANCC. We are proud to extend the mission of SCL Health by providing care for the poor, the vulnerable, our communities and each other. Our deep community roots date back to 1873, making us one of the oldest hospitals in Colorado.

Benefits are one of the ways we encourage health for you and your family. Our generous package includes medical, dental and vision coverage. But health is more than a well-working body: it encompasses body, mind and social well-being. To that end, we’ve launched a Healthy Living program to address your holistic health. Healthy Living includes financial incentives, digital tools, tobacco cessation, classes, counseling and paid time off. We also offer financial wellness tools and retirement planning.

We.

Together we’ll align mission and careers, values and workplace. We’ll encourage joy and take pride in our integrity.

We’ll laugh at each other’s jokes (even the bad ones). We’ll hello and high five. We’ll celebrate milestones and acknowledge the value of spirituality in healing.

We’re proud of what we know, which includes how much there is to learn.

Your day.

As a Hospital Chaplain you need to know how to:

• Initiate pastoral visits and respond to referrals to visit patients and/or their families.



• Conduct assessment of spiritual needs of patients, residents, family members, physicians, associates and volunteers.



• Assist patients and families with advance directives and end-of-life resources. Provide resources for transition, bereavement and loss.



• Participate in multidisciplinary patient rounds, care conferences ethics consultations and documents, as appropriate, in patients’ electronic medical record.



• Respond to crisis situations (e.g. Code Blue, trauma, death) to provide spiritual care and support.



• Facilitate prayer, rituals and worship services. Offers workshops (e.g., spirituality, advance directives) as needed.



• Support ongoing partnerships with community clergy.



• Participate as a member of the spiritual care on-call team.



• Participate in on call responsibilities as requested.



• Participate in maintenance of proper administrative procedures for the department in accordance with institutional policy.



• Assist with the development of the department's plan for continuous quality improvement



• Participate in hospital wide committees. May lead specific committee projects and initiatives.

Your experience.

We hire people, not resumes. But we also expect excellence, which is why we require:

• Bachelor’s Degree, required



• Master’s Degree in Divinity, Theology or related field within two (2) years of hire is required



• Four units Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) by the Association of Clinical Pastoral Education (ACPE) accredited centers, required



• Board Certification by APC, NACC, NAJC, or SCA required within two years of hire. Letter of Recommendation of suitability by senior administrative leader of religious tradition (Parish, Synagogue, Conference, Elder Board, etc.), required



• Two (2) years of experience as a Chaplain in a hospital setting, preferred

Your next move.

Now that you know more about being a Hospital Chaplain on our team we hope you’ll join us. At SCL Health you’ll reaffirm every day how much you love this work, and why you were called to it in the first place.