PRN Chaplain | Clifton Springs and Newark, NY

Address: 2 Coulter Road, Clifton Springs, NY
Hours Per Week: Per Diem / As Needed
Schedule: Chaplains primarily work during day shifts but also can be called in for urgent needs and cover church services on Sundays. This per diem role would cover the part-time chaplain's time off. It could be a weekday or weekend day. Clifton Spring's chaplain works Sunday-Thursday, DeMay/Newark workday Mon, Wed, Fri and Sunday.

Position Summary:
Functions as a member of the RRH health care team, providing proactive spiritual and emotional care to patients, families and staff regardless of faith tradition or system of belief.

Key Responsibilities: 

• Makes regular visits to assigned RRH patient units.

• Responds to referrals from the medical and nursing staff, social worker, and other support staff personnel. 

• Responds to requests from families for spiritual/emotional support for the patient and/or themselves.

• Attends interdisciplinary meetings of care teams in order to integrate the role of spiritual care with other disciplines and to build strong working relationships among the members of the team. 

• Provides spiritual and emotional support, upon request and as deemed necessary, to RRH. 

• Addresses ethical issues relating to patients, families and staff with demonstrated knowledge of subject areas and concern for the individual’s well-being.

• Assists the patient’s own clergyperson in appropriate ways to meet his or her responsibility to their parishioner, including notifying clergy of patient’s hospitalization with permission. 

• Serves on various hospital committees, task forces, as requested. 

• Leads in-service presentations on relevant issues to promote staff awareness and education.

• Relays problems/concerns to Leadership. 

• Provides on-call coverage overnight and weekends as needed.

Desired Attributes:

• Strong analytical, computer, and communication skills

Minimum Qualifications:

• one unit of ACPE-CPE REQUIRED

• Clinical Pastoral Education unit must be verifiable from the ACPE (Association of Clinical Pastoral Education)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s level degree in Theology preferred. 

• Three years satisfactory pastoral experience preferred

Required Licensure/Certification Skills:
•    None

Rochester Regional Health System is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action Employer. Minority/Female/Disability/Veteran