Description

Description:

Job Summary:

In addition to the responsibilities listed below, this role is also responsible for initiating collaboration and communication with other departments within the hospital and clinics (e.g., Employee Wellness, Employee Assistance Program) to support institutional staff; providing advanced, in-depth spiritual counseling to staff in medical specialty departments (e.g., Emergency Room, Behavioral Health); identifying and recommending trainings to complete specific to institution needs; anticipating and recommending disaster response services and emergency management, including urgent, rapid responses during crisis situations (e.g., Team Lavender); managing collaborations with internal and external entities to provide and facilitate organizational well-being activities (e.g., tea for the soul, healing music); and serving as a key representative of Spiritual Care Services in hospital-based committees (e.g., ethics).

Essential Responsibilities:

• Promotes learning in others by communicating information and providing advice to drive projects forward; builds relationships with cross-functional stakeholders. Listens, responds to, seeks, and addresses performance feedback; provides actionable feedback to others, including upward feedback to leadership and mentors junior team members. Practices self-leadership; creates and executes plans to capitalize on strengths and improve opportunity areas; influences team members within assigned team or unit. Adapts to competing demands and new responsibilities; adapts to and learns from change, challenges, and feedback. Models team collaboration within and across teams.
• Conducts or oversees business-specific projects by applying deep expertise in subject area; promotes adherence to all procedures and policies. Partners internally and externally to make effective business decisions; determines and carries out processes and methodologies; solves complex problems; escalates high-priority issues or risks, as appropriate; monitors progress and results. Develops work plans to meet business priorities and deadlines; coordinates and delegates resources to accomplish organizational goals. Recognizes and capitalizes on improvement opportunities; evaluates recommendations made; influences the completion of project tasks by others.
• Leads collaborative efforts in spiritual care by: serving as a role model for collaborating, communicating, and documenting interactions with interdisciplinary teams, consult services, and departments across the continuum of care, assisting other team members when necessary; and leading collaborative initiatives with external spiritual care programs (e.g., Interfaith Councils, Music Ministry, CPE Centers), diverse spiritual leaders, and community partners, proactively seeking out new partnerships to ensure resources and/or care of patients, their families and loved ones, and staff are effectively provided.
• Leads patient, loved ones, and staff counseling services by: mentoring others on diverse spiritual care assessment models and ensuring they are effectively used to thoroughly evaluate all spiritual needs, issues, and concerns and implementing appropriate spiritual care services and/or care interventions; expertly leveraging and mentoring others on advanced crisis intervention methods and techniques to help patients, loved ones, and staff experiencing an ambiguous or unique crisis event or emotional, spiritual, and/or existential distress; guiding the triaging of existential and spiritual counseling and creating appropriate care plans while demonstrating sensitivity, respect, and compassion; setting a standard for during and after end-of-life support and counseling to patients, loved ones, and staff, including grief counseling and support group services across the department, ensuring complex, ambiguous cases are effectively resolved; and recommending and implementing enhancements to documentation of pertinent interventions in the patient care record and streamlining charting methodologies in accordance with policies and procedures.
• Leads spiritual care services by: teaching others about cultural sensitivity (e.g., acknowledging diverse belief systems) when interacting with patients, their families and loved ones, and team members; leading the team in tending to spiritual or religious needs and proactively identifying new initiatives including providing supportive counseling, services and/or events throughout the year (e.g., Ash Wednesday, Ramadan) for individuals of diverse faiths, backgrounds, religious needs, cultural rituals, and practices; leading work to create, provide, and educate patients, loved ones, and staff on spiritual resources (e.g., phone support, home visitations, self-care strategies, literature, memorial services, spiritual practices, and alternative care); and leading improvement initiatives based on evaluations of the quality and satisfaction of spiritual care services, including patient survey responses, to ensure patients, loved ones, and staff receive the appropriate spiritual support, comfort, nurturing of well-being, and guidance needed.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Masters degree in Divinity, Theology or related field from an accredited university AND minimum four (4) years of pastoral care experience in a Hospital, Clinic, or Hospice setting.
• Minimum three (3) years of experience in a leadership role with or without direct reports.

Additional Requirements:

• Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSAs): Business Documentation; Health Care Compliance; Health Care Policy; Acts with Compassion; Employee Training; Conflict Resolution; Intercultural Skills; Interpersonal Skills; Program Development; Time Management; Community Engagement; Member Service; Patient Safety; Education and Training; Spiritual Care Resources; Belief Systems and Practices; Crisis Intervention; Spiritual Care Counseling; Spiritual Care Assessments and Interventions; Medical Ethics; Bereavement Risk Assessment

Preferred Qualifications:

• Basic Life Support License for Health Care Providers.
• Board Certified or certification-eligible as a Chaplain with Association of Alliance Chaplains (AAC), Association of Professional Chaplains (APC), National Association of Catholic Chaplains (NACC), or Neshama: Association of Jewish Chaplains (NAJC).

Primary Location: California,Irvine,Orange Co Irvine Medical Center
Scheduled Weekly Hours: 1
Shift: Variable
Workdays: Sun, Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat
Working Hours Start: 10:00 AM
Working Hours End: 06:00 PM
Job Schedule: Per Diem
Job Type: Standard Worker Location: Onsite
Employee Status: Regular
Employee Group/Union Affiliation: NUE-SCAL-01|NUE|Non Union Employee
Job Level: Individual Contributor
Department: OC Irvine Medical Center - Palliative Care - Other - 0801
Pay Range: $37.01 - $47.86 / hour Kaiser Permanente strives to offer a market competitive total rewards package and is committed to pay equity and transparency. The posted pay range is based on possible base salaries for the role and does not reflect the full value of our total rewards package. Actual base pay determined at offer will be based on labor market data and a candidate's years of relevant work experience, education, certifications, skills, and geographic location. Travel: Yes, 75 % of the Time On-site: Work location is on-site (KP designated office, medical office building or hospital). Worker location must align with Kaiser Permanente's Authorized States policy. Kaiser Permanente is an equal opportunity employer committed to fair, respectful, and inclusive workplaces. Applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic or status.

For jobs where work will be performed in unincorporated LA County, the employer provides the following statement in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:

Consistently supports compliance and the Principles of Responsibility (Kaiser Permanente's Code of Conduct) by maintaining the privacy and confidentiality of information, protecting the assets of the organization, acting with ethics and integrity, reporting non-compliance, and adhering to applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations, accreditation, and licensure requirements (where applicable), and Kaiser Permanente's policies and procedures.

Models and reinforces ethical behavior in self and others in accordance with the Principles of Responsibility, adheres to organizational policies and guidelines; supports compliance initiatives; maintains confidences; admits mistakes; conducts business with honesty, shows consistency in words and actions; follows through on commitments.

Job duties with at least occasional or possible access to: (1) patients, the general public, or other employees; (2) confidential protected health information and other confidential KP information (including employee, proprietary, financial or trade secret information); (3) KP property and assets, for example, electronic assets, medical instruments, or devices; (4) controlled substances regulated by federal law or potentially subject to diversion.

Requisition #: 1379243

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