Chaplain

Job Summary:

• Provide spiritual care with respect, empathy and compassion to patients, families and staff within the large, diverse and busy Einstein Urban Core.
• Assesses the spiritual, religious and emotional needs of individuals and develops care plans for addressing those needs.
• Participates as a member of the interdisciplinary care team and the chaplaincy team to recommend and directly address patient, visitor and staff needs and to meet individual plan care outcomes.
• Must be able to communicate, with integrity, in the context of the other person's frame of reference, especially regarding issues of crisis, loss, grief, and other serious adjustments.
• Shares in the daytime on-call and some weekend/overnight on-call responsibilities.

Qualifications

• Master's Degree or Equivalent, and 4 units of Clinical Pastoral Education (ACPE, Inc.) required
• Experience working as a chaplain within a medical setting required.
• Experience working as a chaplain within an urban Emergency Room and Trauma Center, strongly preferred.
• Experience and expertise working with a Muslim population.
• Congregational or other clergy experience a plus.
• Knowledge of major faith groups, pastoral theology, dynamics of loss and grief, and of crisis theory and intervention.
• Recognition of being in good standing within faith group.
• Evidence of ability to learn new computer software programs.
• If hired after September 2013, Board Certification (or eligibility for). Certification required within 24 months of hire. Certification by the Association of Professional
• Chaplains, Inc. or by other chaplaincy organization with which APC has certification reciprocity strongly preferred

Conditions of Employment

Since this position will require the selected candidate to engage in regular contact with children in the form of care, guidance, supervision or training, you will be required to meet the requirements of the Child Protective Services Act, including the Pennsylvania State Police criminal background check, the Pennsylvania Department of Welfare child abuse criminal background clearance, and an FBI finger print based federal criminal records check. The selected candidate will not be allowed to commence working until all three (3) are completed satisfactorily.

Closing Statement

About Jefferson

Nationally ranked, Jefferson, which is principally located in the greater Philadelphia region, Lehigh Valley and Northeastern Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey, is reimagining health care and higher education to create unparalleled value. Jefferson is more than 65,000 people strong, dedicated to providing the highest-quality, compassionate clinical care for patients; making our communities healthier and stronger; preparing tomorrow's professional leaders for 21st-century careers; and creating new knowledge through basic/programmatic, clinical and applied research. Thomas Jefferson University , home of Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Jefferson College of Nursing, and the Kanbar College of Design, Engineering and Commerce, dates back to 1824 and today comprises 10 colleges and three schools offering 200+ undergraduate and graduate programs to more than 8,300 students. Jefferson Health , nationally ranked as one of the top 15 not-for-profit health care systems in the country and the largest provider in the Philadelphia and Lehigh Valley areas, serves patients through millions of encounters each year at 32 hospitals campuses and more than 700 outpatient and urgent care locations throughout the region. Jefferson Health Plans is a not-for-profit managed health care organization providing a broad range of health coverage options in Pennsylvania and New Jersey for more than 35 years.

Jefferson is committed to providing equal educational and employment opportunities for all persons without regard to age, race, color, religion, creed, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, marital status, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, military status, veteran status, handicap or disability or any other protected group or status.