About this role
Job Description
Provide religious spiritual care and counsel for emotional distress to patients, their families, as well as to hospital personnel students and volunteers with attention to diverse spiritual orientations and cultures. This spiritual/bereavement work is done either in person at the patients’ home or over the telephone. Work collaboratively with interdisciplinary team members including nurse case managers, aides, social workers, bereavement coordinators, nurse practitioners, and hospice medical directors. Participate in biweekly IDG meetings. Participate in and or conduct liturgical worship services and celebrations. Initiate plan and implement improvements to care delivery. Provide education and consultation relevant to religion and health. Provide consultation regarding ethical issues in patient care. Serve as a resource person for Clinical Pastoral Education Interns and Residents and other students.
This is a dual role including both chaplain/spiritual support and as Bereavement Coordinator.
Job Requirements
Applicable Experience:
Less than 1 yearBasic Life Support - American Heart Association or Red Cross, Family Care Safety Registry - Missouri Department of Health & Senior ServicesMaster's Degree - DivinityJob Details
Part TimeDay (United States of America)The best place to get care. The best place to give care. Saint Luke’s 12,000 employees strive toward that vision every day. Our employees are proud to work for the only faith-based, nonprofit, locally owned health system in Kansas City. Joining Saint Luke’s means joining a team of exceptional professionals who strive for excellence in patient care. Do the best work of your career within a highly diverse and inclusive workspace where all voices matter.
Join the Kansas City region's premiere provider of health services. Equal Opportunity Employer.
Other facts
About Saint Luke's Health System
About Saint Luke’s Health System
Saint Luke’s serves the West Region of BJC Health System as a faith-based, nonprofit, aligned health system committed to providing the highest levels of excellence in compassionate health care and health-related services. Saint Luke’s cares for patients in 65 specialty services across 67 counties in Missouri and Kansas. Saint Luke’s Hospital has been recognized by U.S. News & World Report as one of the elite hospitals in the nation. For more than 140 years, Saint Luke’s has been dedicated to enhancing the physical, mental, and spiritual health of the diverse communities we serve.
Saint Luke’s offers:
- The region’s longest continuously operating adult heart transplant program and one of the nation’s leading cardiovascular programs at Saint Luke's Mid America Heart Institute
- Treatment for complex brain and spinal cord diseases and one of the nation’s leading stroke reversal programs at the nationally ranked Saint Luke’s Marion Bloch Neuroscience Institute
- The region’s only treatment center dedicated exclusively to treating metastatic breast cancer—the Koontz Center for Advanced Breast Cancer at Saint Luke’s Cancer Institute
- Saint Luke’s Convenient and Urgent Care clinics for treatment of minor illnesses and injuries
- Liver and kidney transplantation programs
- A comprehensive maternal-fetal diagnostic and treatment center
- Three Neonatal Intensive Care Units, including a Level IIIb NICU at Saint Luke’s Hospital of Kansas City
- Saint Luke’s Rehabilitation Institute, the only comprehensive inpatient rehabilitation hospital of its kind in the region
- A nationally recognized children's behavioral health center, Saint Luke’s Hospital Crittenton Children’s Center
What you'll do
- Provide religious spiritual care and counsel for emotional distress to patients and their families, as well as to hospital personnel. Collaborate with interdisciplinary team members and participate in liturgical services and care delivery improvements.
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