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Chaplain

Beverly, Massachusetts

Organization Facility: Beverly Hospital Category: Spiritual Services Job ID: JR62645 Date posted: 01/27/2025
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Job Type: Regular

Time Type: Full time

Work Shift: Day (United States of America)

FLSA Status: Non-Exempt

When you join the growing BILH team, you're not just taking a job, you’re making a difference in people’s lives.

Job Description:

Provides for the emotional and spiritual support of the patients, their loved ones, and colleagues as a member of the Spiritual Care and Education Department. This position will require flexible coverage, depending on needs, for both Beverly Hospital, Beverly MA, and Addison Gilbert Hospital, fifteen minutes north of Beverly in Gloucester MA. Mileage for travel between hospitals will be included.

This care and collaboration extends to colleagues throughout the organization, community clergy, and the community at large.

· Provides spiritual, emotional, and religious support for patients, their loved ones, and colleagues; is able to function as an interfaith spiritual care provider in the acute health care setting, comfortable providing appropriate spiritual support regardless of religious affiliation or absence of religious affiliation.

· Is familiar with spiritual assessment tools in the acute health care setting, and is familiar with and able to document a spiritual care visit in the progress notes of the electronic medical record.

· Serves on hospital committees, attends multidisciplinary rounds, and collaborates with inter-professional team members on overall spiritual care and education department purpose and function.

· Assists with creating, promoting, and facilitating wellness and resilience programs for colleagues.

· Assists, as appropriate, with educational programs, services, and other creative ways we care for the spiritual, emotional, and religious needs of patients and colleagues

· Works collaboratively with interdisciplinary team, area clergy / community leaders, and hospital volunteers as needed to support patient care.

Scheduled Hours

Schedule will be determined with Director of Spiritual Care and Education

Qualifications

· Master of Divinity degree (or equivalent graduate degree in a related field)

· Minimum of four units of ACPE accredited Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) and board certification with: the Association of Professional Chaplains, or the National Association of Professional Chaplains, or the National Association of Jewish Chaplains. (Four units of CPE with commitment to seek board certification within one year will be considered.)

· Previous formation for health care ministry which includes astute awareness of self and others; commitment to providing inclusive and welcoming care for a diverse population; willingness to serve and collaborate with others in a complex acute health care setting.

· Willingness to maintain and take responsibility for ongoing professional growth and learning

As a health care organization, we have a responsibility to do everything in our power to care for and protect our patients, our colleagues and our communities. Beth Israel Lahey Health requires that all staff be vaccinated against influenza (flu) and COVID-19 as a condition of employment. Learn more about this requirement.

More than 35,000 people working together. Nurses, doctors, technicians, therapists, researchers, teachers and more, making a difference in patients' lives. Your skill and compassion can make us even stronger.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled

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