Purpose:
Serves as a member of the spiritual care team and provides for the spiritual needs of the patients, families and staff.
Responsibilities:
Supports the spiritual care to patients by:
Completing visitation assignments and communicating the services available through the pastoral care department, Screening patients', families', and staff's needs, Coordinating with chaplains if a patient/family/staff wish to meet with the chaplains.
- Working in/contributing to life of interfaith team.
- Provide pastoral care in routine and emergent situations.
Share on-call responsibilities as needed.
D
ocuments visits to patients Knowledge and understanding of department standards and policies.
- Attend staff meetings and participate in setting goals.
- Participate in multidisciplinary team meetings as required.
- Lead worship as scheduled.
- Seek opportunities for continuing education.
- Communicate well in a professional exchange of ideas with staff.
- Commitment to patient/family/staff centered spiritual care.
- Masters degree in Pastoral Ministry, Theology, Divinity or related counseling field.
- 2 years of prior experience required.
- 1 year of hospital/healthcare-related experience preferred.
- Knowledge of religious values and traditions.
- Completion of 1 unit of CPE required within 1-2 years of hire.
- Knowledge and skills necessary to provide spiritual care to patients served.
- Must know the principles of growth and development to age-specific needs.
- Ability to work in a multi-cultural setting. Sensitivity to multi-cultural/religious diversity.
- Ability to adapt to on-going change.
Licensure, Certifications, and Clearances:
- Ordination or Commission to function in a ministry of pastoral care and endorsement by his/her denomination authority required.Board certification preferred.
- Act 31 Child Abuse Reporting with renewal
- Act 33 with renewal
- Act 34
- Act 73 FBI Clearance with renewal
UPMC is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veteran