Chaplain Part Time
Listed on 2026-03-02
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Healthcare
Mental Health
Primary City/State:
Tucson, Arizona
Department Name:
Pastoral Svcs-Hosp
Work Shift:
Day
Job Category:
Clinical Support
You have a place in the health care industry. If you’re looking to leverage your abilities to make a real difference – and real change in the health care industry – you belong at Banner Health. Apply today.
Pastoral presence offers compassion and hope to patients, families and staff in times of need. Chaplains work collaboratively with other chaplains, volunteers and the interdisciplinary team to fulfill our Banner Health mission of “Making health care easier, so life can be better.” The Spiritual Care Team functions from an interfaith and inclusive perspective to contribute to an excellent patient experience and positive staff morale.
Especially in times of crisis, loss or pandemic, Chaplains serve as a comforting, calm presence to those who are grieving, anxious, overwhelmed or exhausted.
Duties/Responsibilities: Primary responsibility is to visit patients, attend to family and staff as needed. Visits are triaged through a daily patient list of visit consults, and emergency requests that come through pager and Vocera. Priorities are emergencies (Trauma 1 calls, end of life), patient list, and intensive care. Within these are also numerous opportunities to make a difference with patients and families of AZ donor patients, palliative care patients.
Location :
- BUMC South Tucson (2800 E Ajo Way)
Shift/
Schedule:
Part time is 20 hours a week split between 3 days; possibly 2-8 hour shifts and 1-4 hour shift. Weekend rotations will be required.
Banner - University Medical Center South is a comprehensive academic medical center that includes an Emergency department, a state-designated trauma center and a Behavioral Health Pavilion. We are an Arizona Department of Health Services-accredited Cardiac Receiving Center and a Nurses Improving Care for Health system Elders-designated senior-friendly hospital. The hospital is staffed by physicians who are full-time faculty of the University of Arizona College of Medicine - Tucson and is managed by Banner Health under an operating agreement with Pima County.
Our specialty services include inpatient and outpatient behavioral health, treatment and education for diabetes, innovative geriatrics care and comprehensive orthopedics.
This position is responsible for providing facility chaplaincy services to ensure the purpose and objectives of the program are met, which includes providing intensive and extensive emotional and spiritual care to patients, families, and staff in ecumenical and interfaith contexts, requiring the assessment and documentation of emotional and spiritual needs and addressing appropriately. Administers sacramental, religious and/or priestly duties. Provides quality care in crisis situations and during the process of dying, death, and bereavement.
COREFUNCTIONS
Provides emotional and spiritual care to patients, families, and/or staff.
Assesses and documents the spiritual care needs of patients, families, and/or staff and responds appropriately.
Provides emotional and spiritual intervention in crisis situations.
Administers and/or facilitates sacramental, ritual, and devotional experiences. Leads interfaith and ecumenical worship services.
Responds to emergency calls and participates in an on-call rotation schedule.
May assist in orienting, training, and coordinating the work of Spiritual Care Volunteers and/or, where applicable, Chaplain Interns.
Performs a variety of miscellaneous activities in support of continuing education and/or spiritual services at assigned facility, which may include: participating in evidence-based research projects and writing related journal articles; collaborating and maintaining community partnerships/relationships; providing educational and consultative seminars for the hospital community staff, peers, and (where applicable, to Clinical Pastoral Education students,) on topics such as, spiritual assessment, death and dying, grief, ministry skills, prayer, and spirituality;
updating, maintaining, and distributing spiritual literature; and/or, performing other related activities.
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