Description du poste
The incumbent serves as a Chaplain professional performing clinical assignments for the VHA. The incumbent provides comprehensive religious, spiritual, and pastoral care to all persons that are commensurate with the needs, desires, and voluntary consent of the Veteran, caregiver, or staff. The incumbent addresses the spiritual component of health and wellness in every patient care setting to ensure that pastoral care is fully integrated into all aspects of chaplain services.
PRINCIPALES MISSIONS :
The Chaplain serves as a professional spiritual care provider and member of the interdisciplinary healthcare team, delivering comprehensive religious ministry and pastoral care services to Veteran patients, families, caregivers, and staff. Major duties include, but are not limited to: Provide comprehensive spiritual assessments, pastoral counseling, crisis intervention, and religious ministry services to Veterans with complex spiritual, moral, ethical, and emotional concerns. Deliver specialized chaplaincy services in clinical settings, including mental health, substance use disorder, hospice and palliative care, women's health, cancer treatment, spinal cord injury, whole health, and other specialty programs. Serve as an active member of interdisciplinary treatment teams, collaborating with physicians, nurses, psychologists, social workers, therapists, and other healthcare professionals to support holistic patient care. Conduct religious services, worship ceremonies, prayers, sacraments, rites, rituals, memorials, and other faith-based activities in accordance with Veterans' religious preferences and traditions. Provide bedside ministry and pastoral support to newly admitted patients, surgical patients, critically ill patients, patients facing end-of-life issues, and their families. Counsel patients and families regarding advance care planning, moral injury, grief, loss, suffering, life transitions, terminal illness, and other spiritual and ethical concerns. Ensure Veterans are afforded opportunities for the free exercise of religion while protecting patients from religious coercion, discrimination, or proselytization. Coordinate and facilitate access to religious resources by collaborating with community clergy, faith leaders, congregations, volunteers, and community organizations to meet identified spiritual care needs. Develop, implement, and evaluate evidence-based pastoral care programs, spiritual wellness initiatives, staff resiliency programs, and educational activities that support patient and staff well-being. Provide consultation, guidance, training, and education to healthcare staff, trainees, volunteers, and chaplain colleagues regarding spiritual care, religious concerns, ethical issues, and appropriate referral processes. Lead and participate in complex projects, program initiatives, task groups, and quality improvement activities supporting Chaplain Service operations and organizational priorities. Document chaplaincy interventions, spiritual assessments, treatment recommendations, and patient encounters in the electronic health record in accordance with department and regulatory requirements. Maintain effective working relationships with internal and external stakeholders and serve as a liaison between the medical center, patients, families, faith communities, and community organizations. Provide emergency, disaster, and crisis response support for patients, families, staff, and healthcare teams during critical incidents, emergencies, and special events. Assist with administrative functions, program management activities, volunteer coordination, resource management, scheduling, reporting, and other duties necessary to support Chaplain Service operations. Spend a minimum of 70% of work time providing direct patient care services. Work Schedule: Sunday - Thursday or Tuesday - Saturday, 10:00am - 6:30pm Telework: Not Available Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Functional Statement #: 56481-F Relocation/Recruitmen