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Chaplain
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 17 days ago
About the Role
The incumbent serves as a Chaplin professional performing clinical assignments for the medical center. They provide comprehensive religious, spiritual, and pastoral care to all persons that are commensurate with the needs, desires and voluntary consent of the Veteran, caregiver, or staff. The incumbent addresses the spiritual component of health and wellness in every patient care setting to ensure that pastoral care is fully integrated into all aspects of chaplain services.
What You'll Do
- →Major duties include but are not limited to: Providing extended and intensive pastoral counseling as an integral part of the treatment program with patients facing complex, ethical, moral and spiritual issues.
- →Ensuring program effectiveness and modification of service pattern, which includes research and leadership of clinical teams.
- →Serving as a Chaplain representative and a fully recognized member of an interdisciplinary treatment team (IDT).
- →Advising and collaborating with other members of the IDT to provide comprehensive healthcare services to Veterans.
- →Leading various complex and sensitive projects, tasks groups, and assignments to obtain pertinent high level information needed for Chaplain Service management officials.
- →Provides thorough spiritual leadership, offers prayers, and provides overall religious services for Veteran patients, patient families, staff and community.
- →Addresses religious, spiritual, moral and ethical problems of patients and staff.
- →Serving as a professional clinical Chaplain in specialty clinics.
- →Work Schedule: 8:00am to 4:30pm, Monday thru Friday Telework: Not Available Virtual: This is not a virtual position.
- →Functional Statement #: 05244F Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: 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 identification cards that are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment.
- ✓Must pass pre-employment physical evaluation.
- ✓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: 0f717300-8e1f-4e5f-9b12-a0c9f8652851
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