Chaplain PRN - Methodist

Carle Health; Peoria (IL); On-site; USD 33,503 - 55,944; Full time

Job summary

Carle Health is seeking members for the Spiritual Care Team in Peoria, Illinois. This role focuses on providing emotional and spiritual care in response to the needs of patients, their families, and healthcare staff. Support may include crisis intervention and conflict management.

Qualifications include a Master's Degree in Theology and experience in ministry settings. The position offers a competitive wage of $24.32 to $40.61 per hour and a comprehensive benefits package.

Qualifications

• No specific license or certification required.

Responsibilities

• Triages and prioritize critical visits and clinical rounds.
• Completes consult requests and other visit requests.
• Appropriate documentation in EMR for all patient care activities.
• Gathers information about Ethics Consult requests.

Skills

Ministry setting

Education

Master's Degree: Theology

Job description

Overview

Members of the Spiritual Care Team provide emotional/spiritual care, crisis intervention, conflict management, and other support to patients, their families, and to staff, through on-call coverage, usually overnight and on weekends, for Carle Health - Methodist Campus. In healthcare: chaplains are key resources engaged in supporting the emotional / spiritual needs of patients, their families, and healthcare staff. These supportive activities may focus on those with established faith traditions and practices, or those with no religious beliefs, but who have emotional reactions to their personal/medical situations. These supportive efforts include compassionate response to all expressions of diversity.

Qualifications

License/Certifications:

No specific license or certification required.

Education:

Master's Degree: Theology

Other Knowledge/Skills:

Ministry setting

Responsibilities

Main Function

• Triages and prioritize critical visits and clinical rounds priorities and completes clinical rounds at the start of each on-call shift
• Completes consult requests
• Completes other visit requests, including requests for Advance Directive assistance
• Appropriates documentation in the EMR for all patient care activities
• Arranges for Sacramental ministry by area Priests and Eucharistic ministers as needed / desired
• Gathers information about Ethics Consult requests from any campus and forwards that information to the Ethicist on-call for Ethics
• Makes appropriate referrals to area faith groups as needed / desired by patient / family
• Partners with nursing to enhance the emotional / spiritual care of patients and families

Main Function

• Responds in support of: Arrests
• Deaths
• RRT calls, especially pediatric
• STEMI calls
• Trauma calls
• Stroke calls
• Withdrawal of Life Support situations
• Fetal Deaths or other L&D emergencies that occur in either L&D or the ED
• Supports Open Heart and other surgery emergencies as needed
• Supports other medical emergencies as requested
• Responds to overhead pages for RRT calls and Stroke calls when in the building doing rounds or attending to other clinical needs
• Responds to in-house crisis calls as quickly as appropriate
• When already supporting another situation, communicates when they will be available to respond and triages competing clinical needs effectively
• When on-call effectively triages after-hours calls for appropriate response, referring non-essential calls to the next shift
• Supports staff after medical crisis events either:
• Through Care & Share efforts
• Or by triggering the CISM team for critical incident event response
• Utilizes on-call back-up resource person for consultation and clinical guidance when needed and appropriate and in situations when an additional chaplain is needed on campus

Main Function

• Participates in department meetings and projects
• Meets shift report deadlines for Kronos and time keeping needs
• Remains current on all department policies and procedures
• Participates actively in shift coverage conversations and responds to department emails within a reasonable timeframe
• Completes all annual education in a timely manner
• Completes reading, professional development, or other additional responsibilities as assigned
• Provides a letter of endorsement annually verifying one’s good standing with one’s faith tradition

Main Function

• Completes annual expansion of one’s working knowledge of the values and practices of other faith tradition, ethnic, or lifestyle groups
• Offers support that is respectful and meaningful to those specific groups or make a referral to someone within that group, with patient permission
• Respects all persons / expressions of diversity
• Uses department resources for self-care and to better understand how one’s personal spirituality impacts their clinical performance

Compensation and Benefits

The compensation range for this position is $24.32 per hour - $40.61 per hour. This represents a good faith minimum and maximum range for the role at the time of posting by Carle Health. The actual compensation offered to a candidate will be dependent on a variety of factors including, but not limited to, the candidate’s experience, qualifications, location, training, licenses, shifts worked and compensation model. Carle Health offers a comprehensive benefits package for team members and providers. To learn more visit careers.carlehealth.org/benefits.