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Chaplain
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 45 days ago
About the Role
This position functions as a professional Chaplain within the VHA, carrying out clinical pastoral assignments and delivering comprehensive religious, spiritual, and pastoral care in alignment with the needs, preferences, and voluntary consent of Veterans, caregivers, and staff. The Chaplain addresses the spiritual dimensions of health and wellness across all patient care settings, ensuring that pastoral care is seamlessly integrated into the full scope of chaplain services.
What You'll Do
- →Major Duties Include but are not limited to: Serves as a Chaplain professional, providing comprehensive religious and spiritual ministry services to Veterans based on their individual needs and preferences.
- →Delivers ministry that is fully integrated into VHA's Chaplain program.
- →Provides guidance and advice to Chaplain Service leadership, fellow Chaplains, and other stakeholders.
- →May serve in a clinical setting, small healthcare system, satellite outpatient clinic, other federal agency, or Community-Based Outpatient Clinic (CBOC) with limited onsite supervision.
- →Provides extended, intensive pastoral counseling for patients facing complex ethical, moral, or spiritual concerns.
- →Ensures program effectiveness and recommends modifications to service delivery, including contributing to research and leading clinical teams.
- →Practices within specialized clinical or program areas that may involve extended pastoral counseling as part of the treatment plan for patients with significant moral, ethical, or spiritual issues.
- →Work Schedule: Sunday-Thursday, 7:30am-4:00pm.(Subject to change based on agency need.) Telework: Not Available Virtual: This is not a virtual position.
- →Functional Statement #: 61796F Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized
Requirements
- ✓You must be a U.S.
- ✓Citizen to apply for this job.
- ✓Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959.
- ✓Must be proficient in written and spoken English.
- ✓Subject to background/security investigation.
- ✓Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process.
- ✓Acceptable form(s) of identification will be required to complete pre-employment requirements (https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/form-i-9-acceptable-documents).
- ✓Effective May 7, 2025, driver's licenses or state-issued dentification cards that are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment.
- ✓Must pass pre-employment physical examination.
- ✓Participation in the seasonal influenza vaccination program is a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP).
- ✓Complete all application requirements detailed in the "Required Documents" section of this announcement.
- ✓As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you will be required to serve a 1 or 2-year trial period during which we will evaluate your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest.
- ✓In determining if your employment advances the public interest, we may consider: your performance and conduct; the needs and interests of the agency; whether your continued employment would advance organizational goals of the agency or the Government; and whether your continued employment would advance the efficiency of the Federal service.
- ✓Upon completion of your trial period, your employment will be terminated unless you receive certification, in writing, that your continued employment advances the public interest.
Personality Fit
Job ID: 032a48e0-fd39-4167-ad03-5ff84fdad0e9
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