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Chaplain
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 2 days ago
About the Role
Serve as a Chaplain for the Malcom Randall VA Medical Center. The Chaplain will provide 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 Chaplain 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 service.
What You'll Do
- →Duties and responsibilities include but not limited to: Provide religious ministry services to Veteran patients according to their specific needs and desires.
- →Engage as a spiritual leader, a compassionate listener and counselor, especially during times of crisis.
- →Lead and offer prayers and religious services for Veteran patients, patient families, staff, and community.
- →Address the religious, spiritual, moral, and ethical problems of patients and staff.
- →Minister to newly admitted, pre- and post-operative patients, the critically ill, and the families of concerned veteran patients.
- →Provide pastoral ministry to patients of his/her faith group, including conscientious attention during emergencies and crises.
- →Serve as a fully recognized member of an integrated multi-professional treatment team such as serving as a liaison between physicians, medical officers, psychologist, nurses, therapists, social workers and other medical staff.
- →Provide regular and routine personal visits, special visits, and new patient interviews based on requests and referrals/consults.
- →Conduct spiritual assessments to identify patients' strengths and needs and create plans for care in response to the moral injuries and spiritual distress of patients that enhance the Holistic Treatment of veteran patients.
- →Collaborate with healthcare teams to create and update treatment plans to address spiritual distress, grief, and loss as existential concerns to enhance holistic care.
- →Work Schedule: 7:30am - 4pm, Monday through Friday including rotating weekends Virtual: This is not a virtual position.
- →Functional Statement #: 000000 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 identification cards that are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment.
- ✓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.
- ✓Note: Only education or degrees recognized by the U.S.
Personality Fit
Job ID: b0912acb-5e76-4397-98f9-587fe68da7a5
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