Chaplain; MSH; Full Time; Days - Mount Sinai Health System : Job Details

Job DescriptionReporting to the Director of Spiritual Care and Education, the Chaplain is responsible for responding to the spiritual needs of patients, families and staff throughout the organization. The Chaplain provides spiritual support to patients and their loved ones who are confronting serious illness, making difficult treatment decisions, feeling alienated or alone, or experiencing conflict, despair or feelings of hopelessness. The Chaplain functions as a team member of the Department of Spiritual Care and Education at Mount Sinai Hospital and throughout the Mount Sinai Health System, and establishes collaborative relationships with the interdisciplinary care team, other professionals and the community.Responsibilities

Visits patients on assigned floors, throughout the hospital, and, as appropriate, in outpatient settings.

Assesses patient and family spiritual and/or religious needs, supports with appropriate interventions, and assesses outcomes.

Demonstrates necessary chaplaincy knowledge and skills.

Communicates effectively with patients of all demographics served by hospital.

Participates in on-call rotation as needed.

Maintains relationships with medical staff, nursing staff, and other departments as representative of Department of Spiritual Care and Education.

Participates in interdisciplinary meetings in assigned patient care areas.

Provides care and support to hospital staff.

Liaises as needed with hospital priests and community clergy to ensure patients religious needs are met.

Mentors and orients clinical pastoral education students, and teaches didactics as requested.

Participates in organizing and leading holiday services, memorials, and special events as well as activities connected to Spiritual Care Week and Nurses Week.

Fulfills documentation requirements, including appropriate charting in the electronic medical record.

Presents on spiritual care topics to outside departments and/or units, as requested.

Serves on hospital committees as invited.

Participates in maintenance of proper administration procedures for department in accordance with institutional policies.

Adheres to the code of ethics of the Association of Professional Chaplains.

Maintains board-certification by national chaplain association.

Other relevant duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Masters degree with a focus in theology or related fields preferred.

Successful completion of four units of Clinical Pastoral Education in an accredited program

2 years of experience is preferred as a clinical chaplain

Experience working in a healthcare setting

Certified or certification-eligible by the Association of Professional Chaplains , Neshama: the Association of Jewish Chaplains, the National Association of Catholic Chaplains, or the Spiritual Care Association.

Non-Bargaining Unit, 258 - Dept of Spiritual Care & Ed - MSH, Mount Sinai HospitalAbout UsStrength Through Diversity The Mount Sinai Health System believes that diversity, equity, and inclusion are key drivers for excellence. We share a common devotion to delivering exceptional patient care. When you join us, you become a part of Mount Sinai's unrivaled record of achievement, education, and advancement as we revolutionize medicine together. We invite you to participate actively as a part of the Mount Sinai Health System team by:

• Using a lens of equity in all aspects of patient care delivery, education, and research to promote policies and practices to allow opportunities for all to thrive and reach their potential.
• Serving as a role model confronting racist, sexist, or other inappropriate actions by speaking up, challenging exclusionary organizational practices, and standing side-by-side in support of colleagues who experience discrimination.
• Inspiring and fostering an environment of anti-racist behaviors among and between departments and co-workers.

At Mount Sinai, our leaders strive to learn, empower others, and embrace change to further advance equity and improve the well-being of staff, patients, and the organization. We expect our leaders to embrace anti-racism, create a collaborative and respectful environment, and constructively disrupt the status quo to improve the system and enhance care for our patients. We work hard to create an inclusive, welcoming and nurturing work environment where all feel they are valued, belong and are able to advance professionally. Explore more about this opportunity and how you can help us write a new chapter in our history! About the Mount Sinai Health System: Mount Sinai Health System is one of the largest academic medical systems in the New York metro area, with more than 43,000 employees working across eight hospitals, more than 400 outpatient practices, more than 300 labs, a school of nursing, and a leading school of medicine and graduate education. Mount Sinai advances health for all people, everywhere, by taking on the most complex health care challenges of our time - discovering and applying new scientific learning and knowledge; developing safer, more effective treatments; educating the next generation of medical leaders and innovators; and supporting local communities by delivering high-quality care to all who need it. Through the integration of its hospitals, labs, and schools, Mount Sinai offers comprehensive health care solutions from birth through geriatrics, leveraging innovative approaches such as artificial intelligence and informatics while keeping patients' medical and emotional needs at the center of all treatment. The Health System includes approximately 7,400 primary and specialty care physicians; 13 joint-venture outpatient surgery centers throughout the five boroughs of New York City, Westchester, Long Island, and Florida; and more than 30 affiliated community health centers. We are consistently ranked by U.S. News & World Report's Best Hospitals, receiving high Honor Roll status, and are highly ranked: No. 1 in Geriatrics and top 20 in Cardiology/Heart Surgery, Diabetes/Endocrinology, Gastroenterology/GI Surgery, Neurology/Neurosurgery, Orthopedics, Pulmonology/Lung Surgery, Rehabilitation, and Urology. New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai is ranked No. 12 in Ophthalmology. U.S. News & World Report's Best Children's Hospitals ranks Mount Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital among the country's best in several pediatric specialties. The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is ranked No. 14 nationwide in National Institutes of Health funding and in the 99th percentile in research dollars per investigator according to the Association of American Medical Colleges. Newsweek's The World's Best Smart Hospitals ranks The Mount Sinai Hospital as No. 1 in New York and in the top five globally, and Mount Sinai Morningside in the top 20 globally. The Mount Sinai Health System is an equal opportunity employer. We comply with applicable Federal civil rights laws and does not discriminate, exclude, or treat people differently on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression. We are passionately committed to addressing racism and its effects on our faculty, staff, students, trainees, patients, visitors, and the communities we serve. Our goal is for Mount Sinai to become an anti-racist health care and learning institution that intentionally addresses structural racism. EOE Minorities/Women/Disabled/Veterans