• Makes regular visits to assigned RRH patient units.
• Responds to referrals from the medical and nursing staff, social worker, and other support staff personnel.
• Responds to requests from families for spiritual/emotional support for the patient and/or themselves.
• Attends interdisciplinary meetings of care teams in order to integrate the role of spiritual care with other disciplines and to build strong working relationships among the members of the team.
• Provides spiritual and emotional support, upon request and as deemed necessary, to RRH.
• Addresses ethical issues relating to patients, families and staff with demonstrated knowledge of subject areas and concern for the individual’s well-being.
• Assists the patient’s own clergyperson in appropriate ways to meet his or her responsibility to their parishioner, including notifying clergy of patient’s hospitalization with permission.
• Serves on various hospital committees, task forces, as requested.
• Leads in-service presentations on relevant issues to promote staff awareness and education.
• Relays problems/concerns to Leadership.
• Provides on-call coverage overnight and weekends as needed.

• Strong analytical, computer, and communication skills

• one unit of ACPE-CPE REQUIRED

• Clinical Pastoral Education unit must be verifiable from the ACPE (Association of Clinical Pastoral Education)

• Master’s level degree in Theology preferred.
• Three years satisfactory pastoral experience preferred

Rochester Regional Health System is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action Employer. Minority/Female/Disability/Veteran