Chaplain

Founded as a faith-based hospital in 1931 by the Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word, Dignity Health – St. Bernardine Medical Center is a 342-bed, acute care, nonprofit hospital located in San Bernardino, California. The hospital offers a full complement of services, including the Inland Empire Heart and Vascular Institute, an award-winning orthopedics program, surgical weight loss, and is an official Neurovascular Stroke Center, as designated by ICEMA. The hospital shares a legacy of humankindness with Dignity Health, one of the nation’s five largest health care systems. Visit here https://www.dignityhealth.org/socal/locations/stbernardinemedical for more information.

One Community. One Mission. One California 

As our Chaplain, you will serve as a vital spiritual leader and compassionate caregiver within our hospital community, providing essential spiritual counseling and support to patients, families, and staff.

Every day, you will provide direct spiritual, religious, and existential care, offering compassionate presence, support, and appropriate rituals to patients, families, and staff, especially during times of crisis or grief. You will collaborate with the healthcare team to advocate for spiritual needs and integrate holistic care, ensuring respect for diverse beliefs.

To be successful in this role, you must be a highly compassionate individual, comfortable and skilled in engaging with people who may be emotional, panicked, stressed, or in pain. You'll need the proven ability to provide empathetic care, adapt to diverse spiritual needs, and communicate effectively within a multidisciplinary team.

• Patient Satisfaction: Is a role model for the Hospital's Patient Satisfaction effort, i.e. demonstrates AIDET principles when interacting with customers, subordinates and colleagues.
• Ensures quality spiritual care integration into culturally competent patient/family care that recognizes the patient's and family's psycho-social-spiritual needs.
• In conjunction with VP of Mission Integration and the Palliative Care Coordinator, develops, implements and maintains comprehensive palliative care processes for patients, families and staff.
• Participates in patient assessment, documentation, consultation and ethical decision making with special emphasis on palliative care patients.
• Assesses pastoral/sacramental needs of patients, families and personnel and make appropriate referrals and/or follow-up as needed
• Responds to all referrals to make a spiritual care assessment; provides appropriate follow-up care and documentation in department and medical records.

• One year experience in hospital chaplaincy (if CPE training was in a non-medical facility)
• Bachelors degree and advanced study in Theology and
• Board Certified Chaplain APC, upon hire