Chaplain; Part-Time - Louisville, KY

Position Summary

Part‑time Chaplain, Louisville, KY – approx 20 hours per month.

• Serves as a messenger and conveyor of faith, mission, and purpose.
• Interacts with companies, their employees, and the community in a manner that exhibits character through personal and spiritual disciplines.
• Makes regular visits to company worksites (usually weekly) to interact with employees and build relationships of trust and friendship motivated by Christian faith.
• Visits employees or immediate family members wherever care can be expressed and help given: hospitals, nursing homes, funeral homes, family residences, or other sites.
• Provides confidential pastoral discussions for a variety of employee and family concerns, including but not limited to family matters, divorce, serious illness, care of aging parents, death and grief recovery, parenting, financial situations, and other personal issues.
• Provides referral service and acts as coordinator for specialized assistance to employees and/or immediate family members with specific needs.
• Assists with planning, conducting or attending funerals for employees or immediate family members, including follow‑up support and encouragement to immediate family members during the grief period.
• Makes jail visits to employees and immediate family members.
• Works with companies to serve notifications of death and serious injuries to families and other employees, encouraging those impacted by various tragedies.
• Provides post‑termination care for laid‑off or terminated employees to foster a smooth transition to another work environment.
• Facilitates, but does not lead, spiritual enrichment activities; employee‑sponsored and led activities usually more fruitful than chaplain‑led events.
• Provides literature and other resources to assist company employees with life issues.
• Represents companies to clients/customers where appropriate for ministry services involving serious illness, accidents, traumatic events, and funerals.
• Participates in new employee orientation to explain the Employee Care Service and the role of the Chaplain Team.
• With Executive Director of Operations permission, responds positively and assertively to other duties and services requested by executive leadership of companies within the scope of the Letter of Agreement between MCHAP Chaplains and the company.

• Must pass a pre‑employment background check.
• Remote position in the field; work environment depends on clients’ worksites (manufacturing, hospitals, office buildings, funeral homes, etc.).

This role is open; the position is not closed.