Resident Chaplain

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A Pine Rest chaplain resident provides emotional and spiritual support to patients, families and employees regarding their personal, religious, or philosophical needs in accordance with Pine Rest’s mission and values. Our chaplain residents participate in three units of CPE over the course of a year and provide spiritual care on an individual, group or class level. Mature in their faith, they are compassionate about serving individuals that are experiencing a behavioral health crisis. As members of an interdisciplinary treatment teams, our chaplain residents provide support and input for the holistic care of the persons served. As employees experience work stress and emotional fatigue, associate chaplains offer supportive care so employees can continue to work effectively. Chaplain residents are able to relate to a wide range of ages, faiths, backgrounds, and ethnicities. Specific duties and areas of responsibility for this position shall be defined by the department manager or director. The chaplain resident must demonstrate excellent customer service and have enthusiasm about the program and the Pine Rest organization.

Who Are We?

We at Pine Rest believe in the power of healing and that everyone in our community has the right to expert care for mental health and substance use disorders. We are much more than just the third largest non-profit behavioral health system in the country, our 220-acre main campus, and our network of clinical sites across Michigan. We are a tight-knit community of healers who witness the impact of our life-changing work each day.

Each day, we are closing the gaps in access to care. We are innovating through leading-edge research, testing, programs, and treatment modalities that others replicate across the country. Our services include a state-of-the-art psychiatric urgent care center and a soon-to-be-built pediatric behavioral health center, outpatient, inpatient, partial hospitalization (day programs), assessment and testing, residential, addiction treatment and specialty services such as crisis response, employee assistance programs, forensic psychiatry and psychology, and neuromodulation. On-the-job educational programs for nurses, psychologists, advanced practice providers, psychiatrists, and chaplains are equipping the next generation of care providers.

We are passionate about serving and are honored to be a part of this incredible work.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities: 

• Provide spiritual comfort through individual and group prayer and scripture reading, share devotional readings/thoughts, music, communion, and meet individual spiritual needs. 

• Respect cultural and ethnic diversity, yet keep our Christian foundational values and Christian identity. 

• Conduct Sunday worship services Sunday’s.  

• Comfortable with assisting patients and residents with their spiritual needs. Part of this process is performing spiritual assessments and providing spiritual care based upon the assessments, and memorial/funeral services for patients or residents who pass away. Memorial services have been interactive in the past, allowing grieving staff and residents a chance to speak informally at the service. There is also prayer, music, and a message of hope. 

• Participate in the following trainings to assist with various behavioral and medical procedures. 

• Lead group. Demonstrate creativity in designing a theme for each group and providing. Ability to adapt to different cognitive and communication levels so the spiritual care needs can be suited for the individual program. 

• Limited documentation of the visit is helpful to provide the staff with insight into the spiritual needs of the patients or residents for continuity of care. 

• Documents in the Electronic Charting software summaries of individual and group ministry with patients, according to Pastoral Services Department standards. 

• Responsible to uphold the healing ministry of Christ through relationships that honor integrity, stewardship, empowerment, the promotion of diversity and professional excellence. 

• Must maintain annual training and demonstrate competency in the required programmatic training. 

• Performs other duties or functions as assigned. 

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Required/Desired Qualifications: 

• Knowledge of theology, spiritual development, and pastoral counseling at a level normally acquired through completion of a Master's of Divinity degree or equivalent training at an accredited theological seminary or school. 

• One unit of Clinical Pastoral Education training. 

• Endorsement as a Chaplain by one’s denomination of faith group preferred.