Chaplain

We are looking for an Associate Staff Chaplain to join the team. This is a contract position that is 100% on-site in a medical facility in the Columbia, MO area

Responsibilities :

• Provide spiritual support to patients, family and staff.
• Facilitate arrangements as needed to enable patients to practice their spiritual beliefs while hospitalized.
• Act as liaison with community clergy of all faith groups.
• Respond to referrals of admitted patients / families, assess their spiritual needs, and provide spiritual care and counseling accordingly.
• Provide crisis intervention services to patients / families in all health care system facilities as requested.
• Function as a cohesive member of the spiritual care team, providing spiritual care services for patients of other chaplains as needed.
• Work collaboratively with medical treatment teams.
• Serve as On-Call Chaplain for medical and spiritual emergencies.
• Act as liaison between hospital staff, patients / family / friends of the patient during periods of crisis, such as critical illness.
• Contact the patient’s faith leader at the patient’s request.
• Coordinate spiritual care activities with other health care disciplines to avoid interrupting medical care and to ensure spiritual support for the patient.
• Perform religious rites or arrange for appropriate religious leaders to do so, as requested by the patient or family.
• Provide interdenominational worship services as needed and schedule chapel functions, including visiting clergy.
• Document spiritual care services provided in the electronic medical record as defined in department policies.
• Attend patient conferences as requested.
• May complete unit / department specific duties and expectations as outlined in department documents.

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Details :

Malone is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Salary : $43