Pastoral Care Director - Healthcare jobs in Saint Louis, MO

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PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Promotes and supports the integration of spirituality and healing in the workplace.
• Visits patients through rounding and referrals, upon request, with follow up and assistance through listening, guidance, praying, and understanding to address their spiritual needs.
• Accurately and appropriately documents patient visits in the patient medical record.
• Maintains a volunteer chaplain program through an active recruitment process, meeting orientation requirements for hospital volunteers and departmental requirements for pastoral care and retraining as required, while meeting departmental standards and goals.
• Ministers to staff, visitors, and volunteers through competent pastoral guidance.
• Plans and provides meaningful chapel services for patents, families, and personnel. Informs Catholic priest liaison of sacramental needs, as well as collaborating for meaningful ecumenical chapel services.
• Develops and provides various spiritual educational programs for patients, employees, families, or community services and participates in the new employee orientation.
• Maintains and enhances professional skills by keeping abreast of current pastoral care issues through reading, keeping in contact with corporate mission integration, and attending approved educational programs, including attending annual training and completing on-line training requirements.
• Serves as a leader of the mission awareness team, serving to instill the mission throughout the organization.
• Serves as chair of the ethics committee, providing educational opportunities for the committee and staff on topics related to ethics, and serves as an advocate for ethical policy and workplace environment.
• Ensures that pastoral/spiritual care services are provided in accord with Part Two: The Pastoral and Spiritual Responsibility of Catholic Health Care of the Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services.
• Responsible for management functions including budgeting and activities related to staffing such as recruitment, hiring, performance evaluation, and compensation determination.
• Works in a constant state of alertness and safe manner.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

EDUCATION

• Master's degree in Theology, Pastoral Care or related field, advanced certification required

EXPERIENCE

• Two years' pastoral experience

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

• Frequent lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 0-25 lbs.
• Frequent sitting, standing, walking, reaching and repetitive foot/leg and hand/arm movements.
• Frequent use of vision and depth perception for distances near (20 inches or less) and far (20 feet or more) and to identify and distinguish colors.
• Frequent use of hearing and speech to share information through oral communication. Ability to hear alarms, malfunctioning machinery, etc.
• Frequent keyboard use/data entry.
• Occasional bending, stooping, kneeling, squatting, twisting and gripping.
• Occasional lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 25-50 lbs.
• Rare climbing.

REQUIRED PROFESSIONAL LICENSE AND/OR CERTIFICATIONS 
 
State of Work Location: Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma, Wisconsin 

•         Board Certified Chaplain (BCC) - Association of Professional Chaplains 
•         Or 
•         Board Certified Chaplain (BCC) - Board of Chaplaincy Certification Inc (BCCI) 
•         Or 
•         Chaplain - National Association of Catholic Chaplains (NACC) 

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