Chaplain

2 weeks ago

New Bedford, Massachusetts, United States Department Of Veterans Affairs Full time
Summary

This Staff Chaplain position is located at the Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans' Hospital, in Bedford, Massachusetts. The position is full-time at 40-hours per week.



Duties

The incumbent serves as a Chaplain professional for the Veterans Health Administration. The incumbent provides religious, spiritual, and pastoral care to all persons that are commensurate with the needs, desires, and voluntary consent of the Veteran, caregiver, or staff. The incumbent addresses the spiritual component of health and wellness in every patient care setting to ensure that pastoral care is fully integrated into all aspects of service.

Duties include, but are not limited to:

  • Serves as a Chaplain professional providing complete religious ministry services to Veteran patients according to their specific needs and desires.
  • Serves as a primary resource, spiritual advisor and point of contact for the spiritual needs of patients, caregivers, and staff.
  • Conducts religious services and worship, pastoral ministry, and administration of Chaplain services.
  • Engages as a spiritual leader, a compassionate listener and counselor, especially during times of crisis.
  • Provides emotional support and counseling using empathy and strong interpersonal skills to effectively connect with people of all ages.
  • Ensures assignments are carried out in a pluralistic environment, which encompasses sensitivity to the religious needs of many separate religious denominations and faith groups.
  • Leads and offers prayers and religious services for Veteran patients, patient families, staff, and community.
  • Conduct rituals in front of groups of people, which requires effective leadership and public speaking skills.
  • Uses leadership skills to lead prayer and religious services.
  • Addresses the religious, spiritual, moral, and ethical problems of patients and staff.
  • Provides 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.
  • Provides advance care planning education, information, and counsel for patients and their families.
  • Serves as a fully recognized member of an integrated multi-professional treatment team.
  • Maintains liaison with physicians, medical officers, psychologists, nurses, therapists, social workers, or others involved to exchange information relative to the background and current condition of patients.
  • Supervises, trains and coaches volunteer groups who offer their services as assistants as needed.
  • Engages in group consultative discussions or conferences with these professionals to evaluate and review the patient's progress.
  • Collaborates with treatment team professionals to discuss the recommended course of action, and other informed advice to attain the necessary therapeutic goals for the patient.
  • Provides pastoral counseling on medical and ethical matters, including moral injury, problems of conscience, family or marital difficulties, justice or confinement matters, terminal diagnoses, or crisis.
  • Addresses fears that patients have when facing surgery and answers questions regarding the meaning of life when confronted with the reality of pain, illness, permanent disfigurement, crippling, or death.
  • Provides religious instruction for patients through various means, such as individual or group discussion, faith based classes, instructional classes, and tutoring for courses completed by correspondence.
  • Collaborates with healthcare teams to create and update treatment plans to address spiritual distress, grief, and loss as existential concerns to enhance holistic care.
  • Performs a variety of intervention methods, including individual and group intervention, to address the emotional and spiritual needs of patients and families.
  • Provides crisis intervention and stabilization as required.
  • Provides support for individual(s) or unit emergencies, natural disasters, man-made disasters or planned special events.
  • Spends minimally 70% of time in patient care
Work Schedule: 40 hours per week, Sunday - Thursday, 8:00am - 4:30 pm

Telework: Not Available

Virtual: This is not a virtual position.

Functional Statement #: F1856 (GS-09 Entry); F1857 (GS-11 Journeyman)

Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized

Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized

Financial Disclosure Report: Not required

Bargaining Status: This position is eligible for coverage by a Bargaining Unit, but is not currently represented.

Full Performance Level of this vacancy is GS-11. The actual grade at which an applicant may be selected for this vacancy is in the range of GS-09 to GS-11.

Current and former Federal employees must submit copies of their most recent SF-50, (Notice of Personnel Action). The SF-50 must identify the position title, series, grade, step, tenure and type of service (Competitive or Excepted). In some cases, more than one SF-50 may be required to show a higher grade previously held.

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