Chaplain, Pastoral Care

Position: Chaplain, Pastoral Care, 24 Hours, 9am-330pm
Location: Northern

## Chaplain, Pastoral Care, 24 Hours, 9am-330pmApplyremote type:
On-site (100% Onsite) locations:
Marlborough, MA:
Worcester, MA University Campus time type:
Part time posted on:
Posted Todayjob requisition :
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** Are you an internal caregiver, student, or contingent worker/agency worker at UMass Memorial Health?  to apply through your Workday account.
**** Exemption Status:
** Exempt
* * Hiring Range:**$53,580.80 - $96,428.80

Please note that the final offer may vary within this range based on a candidate’s
** experience, skills, qualifications, and internal equity considerations**.
** Schedule Details:
** Sunday through Saturday
** Scheduled

Hours:

** 9a-3:30p
** Shift:
** 1 - Day Shift, 6.5 Hours (United States of America)
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* Hours:

** 24
* * Cost Center:
** 10030 - 5850 Pastoral Care This position may have a signing bonus available a member of the Recruitment Team will confirm eligibility during the interview process.# #
** Everyone Is a Caregiver
** At UMass Memorial Health, everyone is a caregiver – regardless of their title or responsibilities. Exceptional patient care, academic excellence and leading-edge research make UMass Memorial the premier health system of Central Massachusetts, and a place where we can help you build the career you deserve. We are more than 20,000 employees, working together as one health system in a relentless pursuit of healing for our patients, community and each other.

And everyone, in their own unique way, plays an important part, every day.

Responsible for the delivery of pastoral and spiritual care to patients, their loved ones, and staff on all campuses of the Medical Center. Offers a multi-faith presence that is responsive to the cultural, religious, and spiritual diversity of patients and their loved ones.

I. Major Responsibilities:  
1. Assesses patient and family spiritual needs and develops pastoral care plan in response to identified needs.  
2. Responds to pastoral care emergencies and consults in a timely manner.  Participates in provision of 24-hour coverage.  Participates in Medical Center’s response to disasters, community traumas, and related situations.  
3. Documents pastoral care assessments, visits and interventions in the patient’s record to contribute to holistic patient centered care.  
4. Collaborates with interpreter services to provide culturally competent care of patients and their loved ones.  Consults with Medical Center staff regarding provision of care that is sensitive to the diversity of patients’ spiritual/religious/cultural values.  
5. Provides spiritual care to patients, their loved ones, UMMMC staff and students drawing from their spiritual resources to creatively cope with illness, grief, trauma, stress, and death.  Includes but not limited to administering sacraments, providing rituals, memorial services, crisis intervention and end of life care.  
6. Collaborates with the interdisciplinary Palliative Care team in the provision of care for patients and their loved ones living with advanced illness and/or addressing end of life concerns.  Counsels patients and their loved ones regarding ethical decision making, goals of care, and the inclusion of their spiritual/religious/cultural values in their decisions.  Participates in interdisciplinary family meetings with patients and their loved ones.

7. Develops, coordinates, and facilitates public worship/spiritual practices appropriate to diverse setting of the Medical Center.  
8. Promotes the integration of pastoral/spiritual care into the life and service of the institution; provides leadership on hospital medical center committees and initiatives; provides education related to religious/spiritual/cultural diversity, grief and loss, and wellness.  
9. Works with Patient Access Services to…