Chaplain

Experience a rewarding and fulfilling career with Mercyhealth. Mercyhealth is committed to offering our partners a best place to work. Our unique workplace Culture of Excellence is built upon:

• Employee engagement, empowerment and growth
• Teamwork toward our common goal - providing exceptional health care services with a passion for making lives better
• An atmosphere of caring and quality that cascades throughout the organization

The Chaplain will provide spiritual care and counseling, sacramental functions, and resources to meet the spiritual, religious, emotional, and psychological needs of patients, families, and hospital employees. The Chaplain functions as an integral part of the interdisciplinary team in a patient-centered culture committed to providing ...exceptional health care services, resulting in healing in the broadest sense. The Chaplain will engage others in their experience of the Sacred, being sensitive to a wide range of cultures and faiths, being respectful of spiritual or religious preferences. In a professional, competent, and informed manner, the Chaplain will affirm the dignity of each person and explore sources of strength and hope. The Chaplain understands the impact of illness and injury on spiritual well-being and seeks to remind others that persons function optimally when there is integration of body, mind, and spirit. Perform other duties as assigned.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Respond to pages or staff consults in a timely manner to triage situation
• Respond to on-call demand by being on site within twenty minutes
• Meet the needs of the injured, dying, and give support to visitors and staff
• Provide end of life support as requested
• Provide sacramental ministry as requested for patients, families, and staff members
• Utilize the resources of patient's local congregation/parish to assist in meeting the spiritual needs of the patient and their families, with the goal of enabling persons to utilize their own faith as a resource for health and healing.
• Available to debrief staff after a traumatic event
• To work as an effective member of the Mercyhealth Pastoral Care Team and multi-disciplinary teams in all matters

Culture of Excellence Behavior Expectations

To perform the job successfully, an individual should demonstrate the following behavior expectations:

Quality - Follows policies and procedures; adapts to and manages changes in the environment; Demonstrates accuracy and thoroughness giving attention to details; Looks for ways to improve and promote quality; Applies feedback to improve performance; Manages time and prioritizes effectively to achieve organizational goals.

Service - Responds promptly to requests for service and assistance; Follows the Mercyhealth Critical Moments of service; Meets commitments; Abides by MH confidentiality and security agreement; Shows respect and sensitivity for cultural differences; and effectively communicates information to partners; Thinks system wide regarding processes and functions.

Partnering - Shows commitment to the Mission of Mercyhealth and Culture of Excellence through all words and actions; Exhibits objectivity and openness to other's views; Demonstrates a high level of participation and engagement in day-to-day work; Gives and welcomes feedback; Generates suggestions for improving work: Embraces teamwork, supports and encourages positive change while giving value to individuals.

Cost - Conserves organization resources; Understands fiscal responsibility; Works within approved budget; Develops and implements cost saving measures; contributes to profits and revenue.

Education and Experience

Master of Divinity (MDiv) degree, its equivalent or higher, from an accredited school of theology
Completion of two (2) units of Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE), residency within a hospital setting

Certification and Licensure

Ordination and /or licensing as required by denomination and endorsement by his/her denomination

Skills and Abilities
Ability to effectively balance organization, ecclesiastical and clinical priorities
Excellent interpersonal/communication skills
Spiritual and emotional maturity to work with people of various communities, educational and cultural backgrounds
Understands and appreciates the cultural differences in the health care pastoral role versus that of a parish
Demonstrated ability to work well in high demand, high stress environment
Demonstrated ability to work well in a team setting
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills

Language Skills
Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations. Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals. Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the general public.

Reasoning Ability
Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.

Special Physical Demands

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to stand, walk, handle, finger, feel, reach, talk, and hear. The employee is occasionally required to sit, stoop, and kneel. This job requires close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.

Level of Supervision

This position would report directly to the lead chaplain who reports to VP.

Mercyhealth offers a generous total rewards package to eligible employees including, but not limited to:

* Comprehensive Benefits Package: Mercyhealth offers a retirement plan with competitive matching contribution, comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance options, life and disability coverage, access to flexible spending plans, and a variety of other discounted voluntary benefit options.

* Competitive Compensation: Mercyhealth offers market competitive rates of pay and participates in various shift differential and special pay incentive programs.

* Paid Time Off: Mercyhealth offers a generous paid time off plan, which increases with milestone anniversaries, to allow employees the opportunity for a great work-life balance.

* Career Advancement: Mercyhealth offers a number of educational assistance programs and career ladders to support employees in their educational journey and advancement within Mercyhealth.

* Employee Wellbeing: Mercyhealth has a focus on wellbeing for employees across the organization and offers a number of tools and resources, such as an employer-sponsored health risk assessment and a Wellbeing mobile application, to assist employees on their wellbeing journey.

* Additional Benefits: Mercyhealth employees have access to our internal and external employee assistance programs, employee-only discount packages, paid parental and caregiver leaves, on-demand pay, special payment programs for patient services, and financial education to help with retirement planning.