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Hospice of Southern Maine, a healthcare organization where every aspect of the care experience is considered, is searching for superstar talent to join our team. Our cultural environment is a balance of purposeful work providing extraordinary value that challenges you to reach your champion status. The Chaplain is responsible to coordinate and plan spiritual support and counseling services to patients, families, and caregivers in keeping with their belief systems. In addition this position acts as a liaison between local clergy and the interdisciplinary team.

Professional pastoral counseling in healthcare, home care, hospice or palliative care setting required. Ability to express or exchange ideas by means of the spoken word. Primary functions include activities in which incumbent must convey detailed or important spoke n instructions to patients, physicians, families and other employees accurately, loudly or quickly.

Ability to discuss strategies and options for difficult clinical situations, sharing reasoning behind decisions with colleagues. Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication and to make fine discrimination in sound. Ability to plan and perform a wide variety of duties requiring general knowledge of policies and procedures and applicable within area.

Requires considerable judgment to work independently toward general results, devising methods, modifying or adapting standard procedures to meet different conditions, making decisions based on precedent and policy. Ability to work with frequent interruptions and respond appropriately to unexpected situations. Ability to demonstrate courtesy, compassion and respect in relating to patients, families, visitors, physicians, co-workers and the public.

 

Chaplain jobs in maine

 

In addition this position acts as a liaison between local clergy and the interdisciplinary team. Professional pastoral counseling in healthcare, home care, hospice or palliative care setting required. Ministerial license, ordination or endorsement from a faith tradition.

BLS certification or the ability to obtain certification within the first 90 days of employment required. Certification must be kept active during the course of employment.

Senior chaplains typically practice in a specialized program area, that may include intensive and extended pastoral counseling as an integral part of the treatment program, with patients facing complex moral, ethical, or spiritual problems. The senior chaplain may be assigned administrative responsibility to independently develop and implement programs and curriculum. They are accountable for clinical program effectiveness and modification of service patterns, which may include research and leadership of clinical teams.

The senior chaplain works with full understanding of its relationship to the objectives of the institution, and to successfully integrate it with the work of the institutional staff, collaborates with and advises the other senior members of the treatment team in the provision of comprehensive healthcare services to Veterans, ensures equity of access, service, and benefits to this population, ensures the care provided is of the highest quality.

The senior chaplain provides leadership, direction, orientation, coaching, in-service training, staff development, and continuing education programs for assigned chaplain staff. This assignment must represent substantial additional responsibility over and above that required at the full performance grade level and should not be used as the full performance level of this occupation. Working with acute medical, surgical, telemetry, and Specialty Care inpatient Veterans please.

Work Schedule: Full time, Tuesday — Saturday am — pm. Will provide emergency on-call night, holiday and weekend patient care coverage. Basic Requirements: United States Citizenship: Non-citizens may only be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens in accordance with VA Policy.

Applicants must possess a Master of Divinity degree or equivalent educational qualifications as evidenced by a graduate-level theological degree from a college, university or theological school accredited by a member of the Council for Higher Education Accreditation CHEA or Association of Theological Schools ATS and recognized by the U.

Department of Education. Ecclesiastical Endorsement. In accordance with 38 C. An individual must possess and maintain a full and active ecclesiastical endorsement to be employed as a VA chaplain.

Applicants must have an ecclesiastical endorsement, dated within the past 12 months. Loss of endorsement will result in removal from the GS Chaplain series and may result in termination of employment.