Chaplain

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zabeth Healthcare, every role supports our mission to provide comprehensive and compassionate care to the communities we serve. For more than 160 years, St. Elizabeth Healthcare has been a trusted provider of quality care across Kentucky, Indiana, and Ohio. We’re guided by our mission to improve the health of the communities we serve and by our values of excellence, integrity, compassion, and teamwork.

Our associates are the heart of everything we do.

We invest in you — personally and professionally.

Enjoy:

• Competitive pay and comprehensive health coverage within the first 30 days.
• Generous paid time off and flexible work schedules
• Retirement savings with employer match
• Tuition reimbursement and professional development opportunities
• Wellness, mental health, and recognition programs
• Career advancement through mentorship and internal mobility

The Staff Chaplain is a professional spiritual care provider and a full member of the healthcare interdisciplinary team who provides for the pastoral and spiritual needs of patients, their families, and associates. Specifically, the chaplain, through professional training, pastoral presence, organizational leadership, spiritual assessment, interventions, and outcomes, facilitates meaning-making in ways that are important to patients, families, and associates as they relate to their spiritual and emotional well-being.

Demonstrates respect, dignity, kindness, and empathy in each encounter with all patients, families, visitors, and associates regardless of spiritual or cultural background.

This is a 2nd Shift Chaplain Role for working 2:30 p.m.

- 11 p.m. Monday-Friday based at our Florence Hospital location, with system-wide coverage responsibilities throughout the St. Elizabeth Healthcare system.

Provides excellence in spiritual care that contributes to the well-being of care-recipients and their families, offering appropriate emotional and spiritual support through active listening, spiritual assessments, follow-ups, presence, prayer, and grief support, and informs care-recipients of spiritual supports available.

Documents all pastoral care visits, interventions, outcomes, and a care plan in the electronic medical record in a professional and timely way.

Provides excellence in spiritual care that contributes to the well-being of our associates, including 1:1 visits, group interventions, and team meetings as requested and/or appropriate. Collaborates with the pastoral and spiritual care team and other departments in leading various associate care interventions and providing education, when appropriate.

Performs other duties as assigned in support of our mission, strategic plan, and initiatives. May include formation, education, and supervision work, including supporting the work of our spiritual care volunteers, Eucharistic ministers, and CPE student interns.

• Bachelors degree
• One unit of Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) or equivalent
• Agreement to adhering to the St. Elizabeth Spiritual Care Standards and Code of Ethics for Spiritual Care Professionals.

• Thorough understanding of the goals and objectives of St. Elizabeth’s Healthcare. Knowledge and respect of spiritual/religious beliefs and practices of various worldview traditions.
• Strong interpersonal communication and listening skills and ability to handle difficult patient, family, and associate encounters.
• Ability to lead and…