This is a 1-year Contract position and may be extended or converted to Career depending on the needs of the department. Advanced Clinical Resident is to provide spiritual/pastoral care services to patients, families, and staff of RRUCLA Medical Center and on-call coverage as needed, while gaining clinical experience and hours needed for certification from a professional chaplain association. Provides didactic seminars to Interns and Residents in CPE training programs. Salary Range: $24.81 - $52.11/hourly
* 4 units of ACPE-certified CPE * Theological Bachelors Degree, Masters preferred * Pastoral care/spiritual care skills and experience. * Willingness and ability to engage in pastoral/spiritual care-giving to persons of any faith group. * Sensitivity to diverse religious, spiritual, and cultural practices and values. * Ability to respond to people of diverse backgrounds in a caring and compassionate way, enabling them to make decisions, accept loss, and cope with crisis situations. * Ability to function effectively in crisis or under stress. * Capable of theological and spiritual reflection with persons. * Ability to establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with other staff members, managers, volunteers, administrators, patients, and families. * Ability to articulate and communicate spiritual and/or religious needs of patients to the multi-disciplinary health care team and to other chaplains/spiritual care-givers. * Ability to work collegially with and to appreciate community religious leaders and their gifts to the hospital spiritual care and ministry. * Willingness to participate in the Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) program as a resource person. * Willingness to receive clinical supervision with openness and intentionality. * Ability to be organized, responsible, and dependable. * Flexibility, genuineness, sensitivity, and willingness to assist in other areas of pastoral/spiritual care duties. * Ability to be mobile and function with overnight on-call responsibilities.