Chaplain - Casual

To provide direct Pastoral Care services to all patients, family and staff of the hospital as needed to complement the work of other Pastoral Care staff. 

Essential Functions: 

1. Provide Spiritual comfort to patients and families by visiting patients on a regular basis offering spiritual direction, counseling, sacraments and prayer as requested.
2. Communicate and demonstrate an awareness and acceptance of providing appropriate spiritual care for patient, families, and employees from a variety of religious traditions.
3. Assess spiritual needs of patient and family
4. Assist the family in using their faith in dealing with illness, trauma, and/or death.
5. Communicate with nurse and other health care professionals caring for patient and family.
6. Provide grief and bereavement support during end of life for patient, family and staff and support staff in the coordination and offering of appropriate rituals and/or bereavement resources with other members of the care team.
7. When on-call, respond to on-call events and requests for service within 5 minutes of receiving page and remain within a 30-minute drive of hospital. 
8. Provide spiritual support to all clinical providers in the hospital.
9. Coordinate with Pastoral Care staff and volunteers to schedule and ensure coverage during weekdays, weekend days (as determined by the department) and serve as an on-call chaplain.
10. Foster relations with community clergy and religious leaders.
11. Serve as an active member of medical team.
12. Attend to the hospital chapel, maintain a safe / receptive environment and ensure that appropriate materials are available.
13. Lead the effort to implement a Critical Incident Stress De-briefing program for staff as requested.
14. Assure documentation of all visits in patient chart. 
15. Adhere to all hospital standards, policies and procedures and assure regulatory compliance.   
16. Participate in Departmental and interdepartmental staff meetings to foster collegiality. 
17. Keep records of pastoral activity to communicate with other members of the department.

Certified or certification eligible by a national pastoral care or counseling certification body preferred.

Nemours Children’s Health is an internationally recognized children’s health system. With more than 1.7 million patient encounters annually, we provide medical care in five states through two freestanding state-of-the-art children’s hospitals — Nemours Children’s Hospital, Delaware and Nemours Children’s Hospital, Florida. Our pediatric network includes 80 primary-urgent-and specialty care practices and more than 40 hospitalists serving 19 affiliated hospitals. We generate annual revenues of more than $1.7 billion derived from patient services, contributions from the Alfred I. DuPont Trust, as well as other income.

As one of the nation's premier pediatric health systems, we’re on a journey to discover better ways of approaching children’s health. Putting as much focus on prevention as cures and working hand in hand with the community to make every child’s world a place to thrive. It’s a journey that extends beyond our nationally recognized clinical treatment to an entire integrated spectrum of research, advocacy, education, and prevention, leading to the healthiest generations of children ever.

Inclusion and belonging guide our growth and strategy. We are looking for individuals who are passionate about, and committed to, leading efforts to provide culturally relevant care, reducing health disparities, and helping build an inclusive and supportive environment. All of our associates are expected to ensure that these philosophies are embedded in their day-to-day work with colleagues, patients and families.

To learn more about Nemours Children’s and how we go well beyond medicine, visit us at www.nemours.org.