Overview
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As the community’s only not-for-profit faith-based healthcare system; Dignity Health Nevada has been guided by the vision and core values of the Adrian Dominican Sisters for more than 76 years. As the Henderson and Las Vegas communities grow, Dignity Health-St. Rose Dominican facilities and its more than 3400 employees will continue the Sisters’ mission of serving people in need.
St. Rose Dominican is a member of Dignity Health, one of the nation’s largest healthcare systems a 21-state network of more than 9000 physicians 60000 employees and 400 care centers including hospitals urgent and occupational care imaging and surgery centers home health and primary care clinics. Headquartered in San Francisco, Dignity Health is dedicated to providing compassionate high-quality and affordable patient-centered care with special attention to the poor and underserved. Look for us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter.
While you’re busy impacting the healthcare industry, we’ll take care of you with benefits that include health/dental/vision, FSA, matching retirement plans, paid vacation, and more!
Responsibilities
Position Summary:
In accordance with the mission and philosophy of Dignity Health-St. Rose Dominican Hospitals, the Chaplain is a professional who assumes responsibility and accountability for providing pastoral care for patients and their families. He/she applies our Core Values to the performance of every job duty. These Values include Dignity, Collaboration, Justice, Stewardship and Excellence.
- Provides spiritual and emotional care to patients, their families as well as hospital staff. Provides pastoral care and counseling consistent with the plan of treatment developed for each patient.
- Triages patient needs and completes initial visits to newly admitted patient in a timely manner, including documented comprehensive spiritual assessments and care plans. Completes an average of 12 substantive patient care visits per 8-hour shift. Assists patients in completing Advance Directive paperwork.
- Provides for and participates in hospital dedication/blessing ceremonies as well as provide religious ritual/services for patients, families, staff and volunteers as requested and appropriate.
- Participates regularly in interdisciplinary rounds on the units to which he/she is assigned.
- Takes an active role in addressing concerns with patients, families, other health professionals and physicians by participating in clinical case and family conferences.
- Maintains availability for ministry in crises including all codes, deaths, Emergency Room (Trauma) calls and disasters.
- Assumes responsibility for on call support for evening and over night during weekdays and weekend as scheduled.
- Attends and participates in departmental staff meetings. Maintains current professional certification and attends seminars and courses as appropriate to stay abreast of emerging trends in spiritual care.
- Fosters a cooperative effort in meeting the goals of the team and sharing the workload.
- Communicates a positive and caring attitude toward the unit, peers, staff, patients, and other contacts.
- Maintains confidentiality of all patient and hospital-related information, communications and documents.
- Participates in the orientation of new staff and new volunteers to the department as requested.
Qualifications
Minimum:
- Supervised healthcare chaplaincy including hospice experience of at least one year which may include Clinical Pastoral Education.
- Master's Degree in theology from an institution accredited by the Council for Higher Education Accreditation. Four units of Clinical Pastoral Education accredited by ACPE.
Required Licensure: within 2 years from date of hire into a benefited position.
- CHAPLAIN - Obtain certification as a Board certified chaplain by Association for Professional Chaplains (APC), National Association of Catholic Chaplains (NACC); Or
- Neshama: Association of Jewish Chaplains (NAJC) - to be tracked manually and locally; Or
- Canadian Association for Spiritual Care (CASC) - to be tracked manually and locally.
Required Training:
- Completion of all annual required education and any updated safety training, as well as maintaining their particular chaplain association membership dues and/or annual certification fees in order to retain certification status.
- Completes and maintains required unit specific training.
Special Skills:
- Understands and is able to apply the Ethical & Religious Directives of Catholic Healthcare Services.
- Sensitivity to diverse religious and cultural practices and values.
- Ability to function effectively in crisis and under stress.
- Ability to effectively use technology to electronically document in the electronic medical record, send and receive e-mail, etc.
- Is aware of and understands the Ethical & Religious Directives of Catholic Healthcare.
- Excellent communication and pastoral counseling skills.
- Sensitivity to diverse religious and cultural practices and values.
- Ability to function effectively in crisis and under stress.
- Ability to relate to and be supportive of other members of the hospital staff.
- Capable of theological reflection with persons of any faith tradition.
- Ability to integrate and apply pastoral perspective and competence in a variety of functions e.g. interdisciplinary care conferences in-service education and group process.
- Organizational and administrative skills.
- Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules operating policy and procedure manuals.
- Completion of all annual required education and any updated safety training. Completes and maintains required unit specific training.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience in acute care hospice or long term care.
We offer great benefits to support you and your family, including:
- Medical/Dental/Vision Insurance (no premium option for employee benefits)
- Flexible spending accounts
- Matching 403(b) retirement program
- Fully Funded Pension Plan
- Paid Time Off (PTO)
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Mental Health Benefit
- Employee Life Insurance
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Pay Range
$24.10 - $34.94 /hour
