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General Information

Work Location: Los Angeles, CA, USA
Onsite or Remote
Fully On-Site
Work Schedule
Monday - Friday 8:30 am to 5 pm
Posted Date
12/17/2024
Salary Range: $28.3 - 54.74 Hourly
Employment Type
1 - Staff: Contract
Duration
1 Year
Job #
21246

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

Chaplain Resident is to provide spiritual care services to patients, families, and staff of RRUCLA Medical Center while participating in a year of Clinical Pastoral Education for the professional development of spiritual leadership and pastoral/spiritual care skills.


This is a contract position and may be extended or converted to Career depending on the needs of the department. 


Salary Range: $28.30-54.74/hour

Job Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree, Masters preferred, and a unit of Clinical Pastoral Education (or equivalency, as determined by the Director of Spiritual Care Department).
  • 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 engage in the Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) program 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.