Chaplain (Part-Time) - Seacoast

Job description

Responsibilities:
• Maintain professional image and exhibit excellent customer relations to patients, visitors, and staff in accordance with McLeod’s Service Excellence Standards and Core Values.
• Assist in educating and mentoring other chaplains, volunteer chaplains and chaplain students.
• Ability to adjust schedule to accommodate needs of the Pastoral Services department to include weekend coverage if necessary; however, biweekly hours not to exceed 72 hours total. Special Skills and Abilities Required:
• Interpersonal skills for work with distressed and anxious patients, family, and employees.
• Able to prioritize needs and professionally handle multiple interruptions
• Empathy for the problems experienced by others; commitment to care for the distressed.
• Communication skills and self-knowledge to provide compassionate counsel with appropriate boundaries to patients, families, and staff.
• Commitment and ability to provide spiritual care reflecting the Core Values of McLeod Health.
• Demonstrated ability to show grace under pressure and to operate effectively in high stress environments.
• Reputation in the community and/or spiritual community for having a heart for the needs of others and be of strong spiritual and moral character.

Qualifications:
• 2+ years of working in a people-oriented profession

Licenses/Certifications/Registrations/Education:
• Ecclesiastical Endorsement
• Successful completion of McLeod Chaplain Training Curriculum and Shadowing Program within three months.

Preferred Requirements
• Ordained Clergy
• Seminary Degree or Technical, Associate's, or Bachelor's Degree, preferably in a people-centered profession (Human Resources, Psychology, Medical, etc.)