FLSA Status

Exempt

Job Role Summary

The Chaplain provides ministerial services, commensurate with incumbent's own spiritual traditions. This position provides respectful post-mortem care for decedents and their families, and conducts other morgue-related tasks including body releases and routine post-mortem paperwork.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities

• Proactively contributes to Eskenazi Health mission: Advocate, Care, Teach and Serve with special emphasis on the vulnerable population of Marion County. Models Eskenazi Health values of Professionalism, Respect, Innovation, Development, and Excellence.
• Provides Emergency Department/Intensive Care coverage
• Performs unit visitation, as assigned
• Responds to all 'Code' pages while on-duty, unless otherwise specified
• Performs Psychiatric, Correctional Healthcare and outpatient visitation as requested
• Coordinates/implements Spiritual Care response in crisis situations
• Assists, as needed, with management of 'Haven of Hope' family respite rooms
• Provides ministerial services, commensurate with incumbent's own spiritual tradition
• Secures provision of ministerial services for those with differing spiritual traditions
• Supervises volunteers
• Provides spiritual counseling to those in need
• Provides assistance in matters related to Advanced Directives
• Provides assistance in matters related to organ, tissue, and eye donation
• Provides education as needed or assigned on matters for which training has been provided
• Represents facility/department at public events, speaking engagements, etc., as assigned
• Advocates on behalf of patients in the absence of a Patient Advocate
• Manages Sanctuary maintenance, as needed
• Provides respectful post-mortem care for decedents and their families, and conducts other morgue-related tasks including body releases and routine post-mortem paperwork

Job Requirements

• Successful completion of a divinity degree or other denominationally approved/mandated educational program
• Minimum of three years of previous ministerial experience (health care background preferred)
• Must be ordained/endorsed (or equivalent), and in good standing with their ecclesiastical body
• Valid Indiana driver's license

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Positive professional service provision to patients, families, visitors, and staff
• Good professional judgment
• Appropriate display of initiative
• Ability to function unsupervised
• Ability to direct efforts in crisis situation when on-duty
• Knowledge of multiple modalities of ministry
• Demonstrates positive professional interaction with interdisciplinary team and community representatives
• Demonstrates flexibility to meet needs of the department
• Demonstrates personal integrity
• Ability to remain true to self without imposing views on others (proselytism will not be tolerated)