Chaplain - Part Time Huntsman Cancer Hospital

Chaplain - Part Time Huntsman Cancer Hospital

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As a patient-focused organization, University of Utah Health exists to enhance the health and well‑being of people through patient care, research and education. Success in this mission requires a culture of collaboration, excellence, leadership, and respect. The university seeks staff committed to the values of compassion, collaboration, innovation, responsibility, integrity, quality, and trust that are integral to its mission.
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This position assesses spiritual care needs, develops, implements, and updates spiritual care treatment plans to meet culturally appropriate emotional and spiritual needs of patients and families according to best‑practice standards for professional chaplains. The role also provides spiritual care support to hospital staff.

• Completes spiritual needs assessments and formulates intervention strategies based on professional best practice guidelines for addressing spiritual care needs.
• Actively collaborates with all members of the treatment team, furthering team‑based understanding of significant spiritual needs and spiritual/emotional factors contributing to the patient's well‑being.
• In coordination with other IDT members, provides patient/family/staff support in times of crisis, death or difficult diagnoses per hospital and professional protocols.
• Provides spiritually appropriate counseling or guidance in individual and group settings, affirming the dignity and autonomy of an individual’s own orientation to spirituality and/or religion.
• Conducts and/or assists in coordination of individual, communal, and/or public religious rituals including prayer, spiritually‑informed mindfulness/centering,