Chaplain

Where You’ll Work

Founded in 1910, Dignity Health - Community Hospital of San Bernardino is a 347-bed, acute care, nonprofit, community hospital located in San Bernardino, California. Known for its programs in maternity care and pediatrics, behavioral health and long-term subacute care for adults and children, the hospital also includes inpatient and outpatient surgery. The hospital shares a legacy of humankindness with Dignity Health, one of the nation’s five largest health care systems. Visit here https://www.dignityhealth.org/socal/locations/san-bernardino for more information.

One Community. One Mission. One California 

Job Summary and Responsibilities

As our Chaplain, you will serve as a vital spiritual leader and compassionate caregiver within our hospital community, providing essential spiritual counseling and support to patients, families, and staff.Every day, you will provide direct spiritual, religious, and existential care, offering compassionate presence, support, and appropriate rituals to patients, families, and staff, especially during times of crisis or grief. You will collaborate with the healthcare team to advocate for spiritual needs and integrate holistic care, ensuring respect for diverse beliefs. To be successful in this role, you must be a highly compassionate individual, comfortable and skilled in engaging with people who may be emotional, panicked, stressed, or in pain. You'll need the proven ability to provide empathetic care, adapt to diverse spiritual needs, and communicate effectively within a multidisciplinary team.

• Provides spiritual support and counseling to patients, families, hospital staff and medical staff, taking special note of newly admitted, critically ill and those preparing for surgery.
• In conjunction with the Mission and Spiritual Care Director and the Palliative Care Coordinator, develops, implements and maintains comprehensive palliative care processes for patients, families and staff.
• Participates in patient assessment, documentation, consultation and ethical decision making with special emphasis on palliative care patients
• Assesses pastoral/sacramental needs of patients, families and personnel and make appropriate referrals and/or follow-up as needed
• Responds to all referrals to make a spiritual care assessment; provides appropriate follow-up care and documentation in department and medical records
• Responds to all Code Blue or crisis situations on assigned units and provides spiritual and emotional support to patients, family members, hospital staff, medical staff and other patients. Acts as a liaison with medical staff and nursing staff

Job Requirements

Required

• Bachelors Of Arts advanced study in theology or equivalent, upon hire or
• Bachelors Of Science advanced study in theology or equivalent, upon hire or
• ordained and faculties given by the Ordinary of the local Diocese Clinical Pastoral Education , upon hire and
• Minimum of one (1) year of pastoral experience and
• Board Certified Chaplain APC, within 12 - months or
• Certified Supervisor of Clinical Pastoral Education, within 12 - months or
• Board Certified Chaplain BCC, within 12 - months or
• Catholic Chaplain, within 12 - months or
• BCC - JEWISH CHAPLAIN, within 12 - months or
• BCC - CANADIAN SPIRITUAL, within 12 - months

Preferred

• Masters Other Divinity equivalent , upon hire and
• Four units of Clinical Pastoral Education , upon hire