Description du poste
The Oklahoma City VA Health Care System is recruiting a Chaplain Clinical Pastoral Educator to provide senior-level clinical pastoral education and comprehensive religious, spiritual, and pastoral care to Veterans, families, caregivers, and staff across inpatient, outpatient, and residential settings. The position integrates spiritual care into health and wellness services and supports individualized, voluntary care.
PRINCIPALES MISSIONS :
Certified Chaplain and CPE Educator Duties Provide comprehensive religious and spiritual care to Veterans, families, caregivers, and staff based on their individual needs. Provide at least 35% direct patient care, including supervision of students during patient care. Offer pastoral counseling to patients facing complex ethical, moral, emotional, or spiritual concerns. Support life review, oral history, advance care planning, end-of-life preparation, and expression of personal values. Conduct or arrange worship services, prayers, rituals, Bible studies, religious education, and other individual or group activities. Respect and address the needs of people from diverse faiths, denominations, and belief systems. Identify and coordinate with community clergy, faith leaders, and other resources when patients need services outside the Chaplain's role or expertise. Document chaplaincy services in the electronic health record using an approved template or SOAP note format. Serve as a senior spiritual-care resource, advisor, and liaison for Veterans, students, caregivers, staff, and healthcare professionals. Provide consultation, education, mentoring, and training on spiritual care and referrals for patients with complex spiritual needs. Support staff wellness and resiliency through emotional and spiritual care, education, and compassionate presence. Participate as a recognized member of interdisciplinary treatment teams. Collaborate with physicians, nurses, psychologists, social workers, therapists, and other professionals to support comprehensive patient care. Provide chaplain-related input during treatment-team conferences and program reviews. Maintain effective working relationships with facility staff, families, community organizations, seminaries, clergy, and other stakeholders. Train and support volunteers who provide services to Veterans. Clinical Pastoral Education Program Duties Manage the daily operations of the Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) Center. Develop, implement, and update CPE policies, procedures, curricula, and practice guidelines. Educate and supervise CPE students at all levels. Recruit, interview, and select students for the CPE program. Assess student strengths and needs, develop educational plans, supervise clinical work, and evaluate performance. Provide students with supervised clinical experience in spiritual care for hospitalized patients. Develop measurable, outcome-based, and evidence-informed curricula aligned with board-certification competencies. Develop internship programs and supervise interns. Coordinate clinical preceptors, Advisory Group members, Office of Academic Affiliations staff, seminaries, and other educational partners. Obtain approval for allied-health trainee positions through the Office of Academic Affiliations. Maintain accreditation records, educator evaluations, student files, center portfolios, contracts, reports, policies, and educational resources. Ensure required documentation and reports are completed and submitted on time. Monitor program effectiveness and use evaluations, research, and best practices to improve educational services. Measure educational outcomes and implement changes when needed. Participate in accredited CPE professional organizations, national events, and communities of practice. Serve as a liaison to seminaries, ordained persons, and other CPE partners. Provide guidance and consultation to Chaplain Service leaders, other chaplains, students, healthcare staff, and stakeholders. Lead orientations, coaching, in-service t