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Posted: 18-Dec-24
Location: Los Angeles, California
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Internal Number: 145277268
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
- 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.
