What are the responsibilities and job description for the Chaplain position at Moffitt Cancer Center?
Req # 78734
Position Highlights
The ideal candidate will have the following:
Position Highlights
- To provide spiritual care to patients, families, visitors, and staff, regardless of faith tradition or lack thereof.
- To be a resource and liaison for local clergy, community faith groups, and community civic groups.
- To implement all aspects of chaplaincy care and education at Moffitt Cancer Center, Moffitt at International Plaza, McKinley, and other Moffitt locations not named.
- To work collaboratively with members of the interdisciplinary team.
- To communicate accurately, clearly, and in a timely manner, both verbally and in written materials.
- To enter electronic documentation of all patient interactions into the electronic health record.
- Record daily work into the Pastoral Care Activity Reporting System (PCARS).
- To perform duties of on-call after hours, on weekends, and holidays when scheduled.
The ideal candidate will have the following:
- Four (4) or more units of CPE.
- Ordination or equivalent from faith group.
- Master’s Degree in Theology. (Divinity)
- 2 or more years experience in a setting such as, but not limited to, a hospital, hospice, long-term care facility; religious institution, or center of worship.
- Provide Spiritual Assessment and counseling to patients, families, and staff.
- Support patients' rights by considering psychosocial, spiritual, and cultural variables influencing perceptions of illness.
- Triage requests for the priest and contact the priest in emergency situations; make referrals to the priest for non-emergencies..
- Provide grief de-briefing and similar de-briefing for individuals and/or groups as appropriate; collaborate with Human Resources to provide support for staff in tragic situations involving staff and/or patients.
- Enter daily statistics into the Pastoral Care Activity Accounting System(PCARS) and participate in Quality Improvement(QI) activities in the Department of Chaplaincy Care.
- Assist patients, family members, and staff with Advance Care Planning and communicate patients' wishes to the interdisciplinary team.
- Master’s Degree in Theology (Divinity).
- Ordination or equivalent from faith group.
- Minimum four (4) units of CPE.
- Minimum of 2 years experience in a setting such as, but not limited to, a hospital, hospice, long-term care facility; religious institution, or center of worship.
- Evidence of understanding of diverse populations.
