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Supervisory Chaplain
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 50 days ago
About the Role
This position is located within the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Veterans Health Administration (VHA), Veterans Affairs Medical Centers (VAMC), and Chaplain Service (CS). The position provides services within various settings, including Veterans Integrated Service Networks (VISNs), Inpatient Clinics, Outpatient Clinics, and domiciliary throughout the United States.
What You'll Do
- →Major duties include, but are not limited to: Serves as 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.
- →May serve at a facility in a clinical setting, or a small healthcare system, satellite outpatient clinic, other federal agency, or Community Based Out-patient Clinic (CBOC) where there is limited access to on-site supervision.
- →Provides extended and intensive pastoral counseling as an integral part of the treatment program with patients facing complex, ethical, moral, and spiritual issues.
- →Serves as a Chaplain representative and a fully recognized member of an interdisciplinary treatment team (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.
- →Leads various complex and sensitive projects, task groups, and assignments to obtain pertinent high-level information needed for Chaplain Service management officials.
- →Provides effective counseling services to patients and staff.
- →Conducts regular rounds of hospital wards where patients are critically ill.
- →Ministers to newly admitted, pre- and post-operative patients, the critically ill, and the families of concerned Veteran patients.
- →Collaborate with treatment team professionals to discuss the recommended course of action, and other informed advice to attain the necessary therapeutic goals for the patient.
- →Engages community resources to meet the religious needs of patients that cannot be met by chaplain staff.
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: a34b81fa-6db7-4d79-9bea-359fc88a40ba
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