Chaplain

Founded in 1926, Dignity Health - Glendale Memorial Hospital and Health Center is a 334-bed, acute care, nonprofit hospital. Serving over 70,000 patients annually, the hospital offers a full complement of services including a Level III NICU, heart care, wound care and surgical services. Additionally, Glendale Memorial Hospital has been recognized as an LGBTQ+ Healthcare Equality High Performer by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation. It is a Joint Commission-certified Thrombectomy-Capable Stroke Center and a SRC Center of Excellence for Robotic Surgery and Colorectal Surgery.

One Community. One Mission. One California 

As our Chaplain, you will be a vital spiritual leader and compassionate caregiver in our hospital community, offering 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.

• Demonstrates adherence to the Standards of Conduct Requirements. Completes all regulatory and compliance training/testing.
• Provides spiritual care and support to patients and/or families of varying religious/spiritual beliefs.
• Assists in making arrangements for spiritual support of patients/significant others when specific requests are made for clergy of other faith traditions or when patients/families request their personal clergy.
• Ensures positive relations with community clergy are continued and maintained.
• Maintains statistics as required by the Director of Mission Integration and Spiritual Care.
• Documents all patient and family interactions in the electronic medical record.

Required

• Master's Other and One (1) year of experience providing spiritual care in an acute care, emergency, or hospice setting, and familiarity with various clinical areas of a hospital, upon hire and
• Experience with culturally and spiritually diverse persons. and
• Experience collaborating with the interdisciplinary team, and
• Experience in planning and leading ritual ministry and support programs.
• Board Certified Chaplain APC, upon hire or
• Certified Supervisor of Clinical Pastoral Education, upon hire or
• Board Certified Chaplain BCC, upon hire or
• Catholic Chaplain, upon hire or
• BCC - JEWISH CHAPLAIN, upon hire or
• BCC - CANADIAN SPIRITUAL, upon hire