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Chaplaincy in Palliative Care Settings
spiritual health job descriptionDate: Dec 19, 2007 11:48 am
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| Re:spiritual health job description (by lynceronsky on 02/20/2008)
We have a part time chaplain on our inpatient consult team. We use the job description from the Spiritual Health Services dept with an addendum specific to palliative care. The addendum includes: Provides expert clinical consultation in spiritual care to palliative patients, families, and staff.
Functions as a member of a consultative interdisciplinary work team, and with unit staff as a direct care provider or in a consultative role.
Develops, negotiates and advances the plan of care specific to palliative care issues within and outside of own discipline.
If it is a volunteer position, I would recommend that the individual be certified as a professional chaplain.
Lyn Ceronsky, MS, APRN, BC
System Director
Fairview Health System
Palliative Care Leadership Centers
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| Re:spiritual health job description (by GeorgeHankinsHull on 05/30/2008)
The College of Pastoral Supervision & Psychotherapy (CPSP)a national pastoral care training and certifying body would recommend the following information as guidance when writing a job description for a chaplaincy position:
Competency in Pastoral Care:
The basic requirements in CPSP for certification as Board Certified
Clinical Chaplain:
1. The characterological make-up for ministry, including an
ability to bond with others, an ability to give attention to others, and a tolerance for diverse religious traditions and values.
2. Basic self-understanding, so as to limit unconscious imposition of
one’s own agenda on others.
3. Endorsement by a faith-group community to perform ministry.
4. 1600 hours of clinically supervised ministry or a year of Clinical
Pastoral Education.
5. Continuing education and annual recertification.
6. A Master of Divinity degree or equivalent, which means three years
of post-graduate academic study.
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CPSP also offers “Associate Clinical Chaplain” certification for those who meet all requirements except the M.Div. or equivalent.
We encourage chaplaincy employers to recognize Associate Clinical Chaplain, Board Certified, as an entry level basic certification. The rationale for this request is two-fold. Academic training, while very useful, is not
essential for a person’s ability to provide competent pastoral care at a basic level. And in many parts of the country, access to post-
graduate theological education is difficult, requiring relocation. The cost of such an educational course does not seem to match the benefit for certain individuals.
In general we encourage the following wording for job descriptions:
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
Board Certification as a Clinical Chaplain by one of the national chaplaincy certifying bodies.
Chaplaincy Volunteer: minimum two units of clinical pastoral education as defined by the College of Pastoral Supervision & sychotherapy, National Association of Catholic Chaplains or The Association for Clinical Pastoral Education.
Blessings
George Hankins Hull
CPSP Diplomate in Clinical Pastoral Supervision
ghull@uams.edu
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| Re:spiritual health job description (by ghandzo on 05/31/2008)
There are a couple of examples on the Program Development section of the Association of Professional Chaplains website (www.professionalchaplains.org) that might serve as starters. We also find it helpful in our organization to assign percentages to each activity to signify what part of the chaplain's time is expected to be spent in that activity. So for instance, if the chaplain is expected to teach as well as see patients, how much of each is the person expected to do?
The Rev. George Handzo, BCC
Vice President
Pastoral Care Leadership & Practice
The HealthCare Chaplaincy
New York, NY
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| Re:spiritual health job description (by stacyt on 06/18/2008)
We are also in the same position as your program and a volunteer program is something we are exploring too. I would very interested to learn how your position develops. What has been done in the past in another institute seem very innovative at that time... An IDT was created where 8 community spiritual leaders rounded with their Oncology Team and provided spiritual support to their patients/families. These volunteers committed about 6 hours/week to round and visit patients/families. They had group lunches and scheduled educational inservices incorporated in their learning. The institute's and oncology team's support was vital for their project.
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