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Chaplain
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 2 days ago
About the Role
The Chaplain performs clinical assignments for the VHA. 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. They address 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
- →Duties of the Chaplain include, but are not limited to: Serves as a Chaplain professional providing comprehensive, religious ministry services to Veteran patients according to their specific needs and desires.
- →Carries out a ministry which is highly integrated into VHA's Chaplain program.
- →Provides thorough guidance and advice to Chaplain Service management staff, other Chaplains, and other stakeholders.
- →Provides extended and intensive pastoral counseling as an integral part of the treatment program with patients facing complex, ethical, moral, and spiritual issues.
- →Ensures program effectiveness and modification of service pattern, which includes research and leadership of clinical teams.
- →Practices typically in a specialized clinic/program area, that may include intensive and extended pastoral counseling as an integral part of the treatment program, with patients facing complex moral, ethical, or spiritual problems.
- →Serves as a Chaplain representative and a fully recognized member of an interdisciplinary treatment team (IDT).
- →Advises and collaborates with other members of the IDT to provide comprehensive healthcare services to Veterans.
- →Maintains effective rapport with physicians, medical officers, psychologists, nurses, therapists, social workers, or others involved with the IDT.
- →Ensures equity of access, service, and benefits to Veterans and provides the highest quality of care.
- →Provides leadership, direction, orientation, coaching, in-service training, staff development, and continuing education programs.
- →Serves as a primary Chaplain resource, spiritual advisor, and liaison for the spiritual needs of patients, caregivers, and staff.
- →Conducts comprehensive religious services and worship, pastoral ministry, and administration of Chaplain services.
- →Leads various complex and sensitive projects, task groups, and assignments to obtain pertinent high-level information needed for Chaplain Service management official Engages as a spiritual leader, a compassionate listener, and counselor, especially during times of crisis.
Requirements
- ✓You must be a U.S.
- ✓Citizen to apply for this job.
- ✓All applicants tentatively selected for VA employment in a testing designated position are subject to urinalysis to screen for illegal drug use prior to appointment.
- ✓Applicants who refuse to be tested will be denied employment with VA.
- ✓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 be able to independently operate Government Vehicle.
- ✓Must provide clean driving record report from the DMV during the pre-employment process.
- ✓(Unless visually impaired, not required).
- ✓Must pass pre-employment physical examination.
Personality Fit
Job ID: f923d373-7f03-4bf0-8be5-41810129ce9e
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