Chaplain Sitter - Relief/PRN

conehealth.com; North Carolina; On-site; USD 30,000 - 45,000; Part time

Job summary

Cone Health seeks a Chaplain Sitter to provide spiritual care and comfort to patients across multiple facilities. This role requires a Bachelor's Degree and experience in emotional support. The position involves direct patient interaction, maintaining communication with healthcare teams, and documenting consultations.

Qualifications

• Required: Bachelor's Degree and Clinical Pastoral Education.
• Six months of experience in emotional/spiritual support.

Responsibilities

• Providing direct and individualized spiritual and emotional support to patients.
• Maintaining communication with the referring chaplain and nursing staff.
• Documenting all patient consultations promptly.

Skills

Emotional support

Spiritual support

Communication

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE)

Job description

The Chaplain Sitter provides rapid response spiritual care and comfort support, defined as easing a person's feelings of distress (financial, emotional, spiritual, or physical) to patients.

This is a relief/as needed position. The location can and will vary, as this is a system-wide position that includes Moses Cone, Wesley Long, Annie Penn, and Alamance Regional Medical Center.

Responsibilities include:

1. Providing direct and individualized spiritual and emotional support to patients.
2. Providing short-term comfort sitter services to patients without resources to fill this need.
3. Maintaining communication and consultation with the referring chaplain, assistant director of Spiritual Care and Counseling, and, if applicable, the unit chaplain.
4. Relaying important information to the patient's nurse and contributing to the plan of care.
5. Documenting all patient consultations and encounters promptly.
6. Performing other duties as assigned.

Education: Required: Bachelor's Degree and successful completion of one unit (approximately 400 hours) of Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE).

Experience: Required: Six months of relevant experience providing emotional and spiritual support.

Licensure/Certification/Registry/List: [Specify as applicable]

Equal Opportunity Employer: At Cone Health, we strive to create a welcoming atmosphere that celebrates a diverse and unique workforce. We believe in offering equal opportunities for employment to all applicants and employees, regardless of race, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran's status, ethnicity, national origin, disability, color, or any other characteristic protected by law. Our hiring and employment decisions are based on individual qualifications, skills, and performance. We embrace diversity to better serve our patients, communities, and each other.