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Corporate Chaplain - Physician's Organization (travel throughout Houston area)
Location:
Corporate
7550 Greenbriar Drive, Houston TX, 77030
7550 Greenbriar Drive, Houston TX, 77030
- Job Ref:
- JR-530
- Talent Area:
- Professional
- Job Shift:
- Day
- Job Type:
- Full Time
At Houston Methodist, the Corporate Chaplain position is responsible for assisting leadership, providing resources to help meet workforce, patient, fiscal and administrative goals by strategic planning and programming. This position is responsible for providing guidance for spiritual care to meet the spiritual, religious, and emotional needs of Houston Methodist employees, proactively identifying when a change in approach or intervention is necessary, taking appropriate action and involving others as needed. As the senior level, in addition to performing the duties of Chaplain, the Corporate Chaplain position creates awareness of Spiritual Care resources for the purpose of staff support. This position conducts I CARE values integration, using specialized techniques to help staff integrate I CARE into their personal culture using coaching and modeling behaviors. The Corporate Chaplain position uses specialized support techniques to assist professionals with overcoming challenges in the workplace, facilitating long-term spiritual care support for employees, staff, and management.
FLSA STATUS
Exempt
QUALIFICATIONS
EDUCATION
EXPERIENCE
LICENSES AND CERTIFICATIONS
Required
SKILLS AND ABILITIES
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
PEOPLE ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
SERVICE ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
QUALITY/SAFETY ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
FINANCE ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
GROWTH/INNOVATION ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
SUPPLEMENTAL REQUIREMENTS
Exempt
QUALIFICATIONS
EDUCATION
- Master's degree in theology or related studies from an institution accredited by the Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA), or equivalency approved by the Association of Professional Chaplains (APC), American Association of Pastoral Counselors (AAPC and only if prior to 2017), National Association of Catholic Chaplains (NACC), Neshama: Association of Jewish Chaplains (NAJC), Canadian Association for Spiritual Care (CASC), Association for Clinical Pastoral Education (ACPE), or Spiritual Care Association (SCA)
- Four units of clinical pastoral education (CPE) from an accredited institution(s), e.g., the Association for Clinical Pastoral Education (ACPE), the Canadian Association for Spiritual Care (CASC)
EXPERIENCE
- Three years’ experience as a professional chaplain (post clinical pastoral education) in a healthcare setting
- Acute care hospital setting strongly preferred
LICENSES AND CERTIFICATIONS
Required
- Must have one of the following certifications: •Board Certified Chaplain (BCCI) •Board Certified Chaplain (NAJC) •Board Certified Chaplain (NACC) •Board Certified Chaplain (NAVAC) •Board Certified Chaplain (APC) •Board Certified Chaplain (SCA) •Advanced Practice Board Certified Chaplain (SCA) •Certified Spiritual Care Practitioner (CASC)
SKILLS AND ABILITIES
- Demonstrates the skills and competencies necessary to safely perform the assigned job, determined through on-going skills, competency assessments, and performance evaluations
- Sufficient proficiency in speaking, reading, and writing the English language necessary to perform the essential functions of this job, especially about activities impacting patient or employee safety or security
- Ability to effectively communicate with patients, physicians, family members and co-workers in a manner consistent with a customer service focus and application of positive language principles
- Ability to work independently; capable of effectively facilitating challenging/difficult interactions, employee situations; demonstrates sound judgment and executes above average communication skills
- Exhibits strong interpersonal, teamwork and leadership skills with all levels of the healthcare team and assures delivery of excellent customer service to all patients, visitors, physicians, employees, and co-workers
- Adapts to multiple ongoing priorities with minimal supervision including organizing workflow and actively participating in problem-solving
- Possesses competent computer knowledge; operates various computer systems
- Agility for rounding through entity geographical territory including multiple facilities and workspaces
- Ability to facilitate learning modules, seminars, presentations
- Endorsed for chaplaincy by a recognized endorsing body
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
PEOPLE ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
- Role models a supportive and positive environment. Collaborates with Human Resources (HR) and Organizational Development (OD), by role modeling mitigation of conflict, leading problem-solving, and resolution efforts, and communication in a positive, supportive, non-judgmental manner.
- Assists leadership, providing resources to help meet workforce, fiscal and administrative goals by strategic planning and programming.
- Takes initiative to build constructive relationships with employees to identify and address spiritual and emotional needs, taking appropriate action and involving other departments as needed, including HR and OD.
- Utilizes leadership skills to develop strategies for improving employee morale and promoting effective teamwork, partnering with HR and OD. Drives initiatives to improve department scores for employee engagement and values integration.
SERVICE ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
- Provides coaching to form coping techniques organic to the employee for the purpose of harmonizing work culture and maximizing productivity. Provides spiritual care to meet the spiritual, religious, and emotional needs of onsite and work-from-home employees of all faiths. Enables others to utilize their own faith as a resource for health and healing.
- Provides on-site rounding of employee areas, equitable support for “working from home” employees, in-person, virtual, or hybrid spiritual support for individuals and groups, individual and group support and consultation, informal debriefings following crisis incidents, individual or group reflections and prayers, referrals as appropriate to HM resources, i.e. Employee Assistance Program, I CARE values integration education and support, spiritual wellness planning, grief support, team changes, administrative structural changes, home life changes, career goals, health issues, etc.
- Conducts psycho-social and trauma-specific evaluations as needed. Serves as the initial point of contact for providing crisis assessment and intervention for employees, as needed, particularly in cases of spiritual and emotional distress as well as loss and grief, preparing Spiritual Care support for workplace teams and or individuals.
- Serves as spiritual advisor and I CARE consultant for executive assembly, entity standing committees, department, team, system planning. Fosters a positive and constructive teaching environment by engaging co-workers in learning opportunities that are valuable and in alignment with business objectives, Houston Methodist mission, vision, and values.
QUALITY/SAFETY ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
- Provides consultations departments and entity leadership and staff to assess quality and safety of services provided; proactively identifies need for intervention and takes action, involving others, as necessary. Documents quality assessments/metrics/reporting, integration of I CARE values, leadership development, etc., including the planning and development of such initiative(s)
- Designs, develops, and markets Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) for equitable and measurable spiritual care response/support. Executes SOP for grief (memorial service, grief, bereavement), domestic violence, workplace violence, crisis intervention. Serves as Spiritual Care Advisor for entity Threat Assessment Team
- Identifies initiatives/opportunities for corrective action and improvement, providing recommendations; contributes to meeting department targets for quality and safety, leads the education and implementation of quality improvement activities and department safety initiatives.
FINANCE ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
- Utilizes resources effectively and efficiently, demonstrating responsible financial stewardship. Manages own time effectively and prioritizes work to achieve maximum results in a timely manner; assists co-workers with effective time management.
GROWTH/INNOVATION ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
- Organizes, develops, and monitors a comprehensive institutional multi-faith spiritual care and values integration program.
- Provides oversight to one or more department initiatives such the annual I CARE Recharge program. Facilitates New Employee Orientation (NEO) in partnership with HR by leading the I CARE portion or other employee sessions.
- Assists management with development, planning, activation and achievement of department vision and goals. Plans various department and or entity-wide activities such as, but not limited to worship services, I CARE values integration, accreditation readiness, bioethics, special projects, entity committees, leadership development, etc. Completes and updates the My Development Plan on an on-going basis.
SUPPLEMENTAL REQUIREMENTS
- WORK ATTIRE
- Uniform: No
- Scrubs: No
- Business professional: Yes
- Other (department approved): No
- On Call* Yes
- May require travel within the Houston Metropolitan area Yes
- May require travel outside Houston Metropolitan area No
ON-CALL*
*Note that employees may be required to be on-call during emergencies (ie. Disaster, Severe Weather Events, etc) regardless of selection below.
TRAVEL**
**Travel specifications may vary by department**
Company Profile:
Houston Methodist is one of the nation’s leading health systems and academic medical centers. Houston Methodist consists of eight hospitals: Houston Methodist Hospital, its flagship academic hospital in the heart of the Texas Medical Center, and seven community hospitals throughout the greater Houston area. Houston Methodist also includes an academic institute, a comprehensive residency program, a global business division, numerous physician practices and several free-standing emergency rooms and outpatient facilities. Overall, Houston Methodist employs more than 27,000 employees and is supported by a wide variety of business functions that operate at the system level to help enable clinical departments to provide high quality patient care.
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