Job Description

** SPECIFIC DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:**

• Operates at height of a chaplain’s scope of practice consistently demonstrating all professional competencies that are required for board certification, including operating in evidence-based practice.

• Serves as a specialist in spiritual/existential care on an interdisciplinary palliative medicine team: Attends daily interdisciplinary team meetings and collaborates with the interdisciplinary palliative medicine team, sharing important psycho-social, spiritual/existential and family dynamic concerns.

• Collaborates with palliative care team to participate in family care conferences, advance care planning and medical decision-making, and other palliative generalist support within the chaplain’s scope of practice.

• Works with an appropriate spiritual assessment model to fully assess spiritual and existential pain, drive chaplain’s interventions, and contribute meaningfully to the plan of care.

• Appropriately meets the spiritual and religious needs of patients, families, and team members from a diversity of faith backgrounds, including those of no faith. Collaboratively provides bereavement and end-of-life care for patients and their families, and supports team members with their own grief in caring for patients at the end-of-life

• Provides institutional leadership through spiritual care education and advocacy for all disciplines, including residents and fellows, at Henry Ford Detroit.

• Develops and facilitates non-religious spiritual formation, debriefing sessions, and self-care rituals to support palliative care team colleagues as well as other team members in need of support in difficult cases.

• Collaborates with the spiritual care team at Henry Ford Detroit to ensure palliative care patient needs are met on evenings and weekends.

Qualifications

** EDUCATION:**

• Master's degree in divinity, Theology, or a related field from an accredited school is required.

• 4 units of Clinical Pastoral Education

• 3-5 years of healthcare experience as a chaplain is preferred.

** Additional Information**

• Organization: Henry Ford Health Main Hospital

• Department: Pastoral Spiritual Care 001

• Henry Ford Health Location: Henry Ford Main

• Shift: Full time evenings