Chaplain, Per Diem - Marina del Rey Hospital

The healing journey of our patients, their families and our employees is Cedars-Sinai Marina del Rey Hospital's highest priority. Our Spiritual Care team works diligently to ensure the wellbeing of the whole person, especially during times of distress, transition, and celebration. We hire people who are passionate about helping others and committed to being a blessing to our community. Join us!

Under general direction of the manager of the Spiritual Care Department, the chaplain provides faith-specific and interfaith chaplaincy for Cedars-Sinai Marina del Rey Hospital to meet the spiritual needs of patients, families, loved ones, and staff. Spiritual care includes conducting religious services throughout the year and collaborating in interfaith provision of care. In this per diem role, your primary duties and responsibilities will be:

Providing Spiritual Care to Patients, their Families and Loved Ones:

• Perform spiritual assessment, and develop a spiritual care plan
• Deliver and arrange for spiritual care to patients, families, and loved ones through counseling, prayer, devotional materials, ritual/sacraments, resources, and supportive presence, for patients at all stages of illness and wellness
• Ensure a full continuum of evidenced-based spiritual care best practices in a way that is respectful of and sensitive to patient beliefs and values, as they understand them, and respectful of their cultural heritage
• Offer and provide as appropriate prayer and supportive presence, including end-of-life prayers for dying patients.
• Help arrange for contact with a patient's or family's own clergy, at their request, and facilitate appropriate access to the medical center for that clergy so that they may administer to the patient or family
• Be available on-call by phone and if appropriate, in person, outside of normal hospital business hours for emergencies that meet agreed-to criteria, except during vacations and appropriate absences

Providing Spiritual Care to CSMDRH Staff:

• Meet with CSMDRH staff member as appropriate to provide counseling about spiritual matters
• Offer support to all CSMDRH staff through Tea for the Soul, Spiritual Care Cart, individual counseling, and other programs as requested
• As time permits, offer prayer services, spiritual reflection groups and written inspirational materials to staff members
• Develop and lead nondenominational or interfaith memorial services to honor staff and patients 

Assuming General and Administrative Spiritual Care Responsibilities:

• Develop and lead services and study sessions, including interfaith services in collaboration with the Christian, Jewish, and Catholic chaplains at CSMC as appropriate
• Collaborate with chaplain to identify general spiritual needs of the CSMDRH community and develop plans to meet them
• Provide education to staff to enable them to offer medical care that is sensitive to the spiritual needs and traditions of patients, their families and loved ones
• Keep appropriate records of spiritual care provided to patients, their families and loved ones
• Distribute religious supplies such as literature for patients as appropriate
• Distribute materials that inform patients, families, loved ones, and staff of the availability of spiritual care and of how to access it
• Be respectfully available and sensitive to all patients, their families and loved ones and staff members who request spiritual care
• Adhere to all Spiritual Care Collaborative Common Standards for Professional Chaplaincy and APC Standards of Practice
• Adheres to the positive actions and attitudes encouraged by the CSMC Spiritual Care Department Covenant.

 Hours are 8:30AM-5:00PM

Education/Training:

• Graduate of accredited seminary or school of theology or other related education, training, and experience.
• Clinical training in chaplaincy required.

Certifications:

• Hospital chaplaincy certification desirable, including four CPE units.
• Membership in the APC desirable.
  

Experience:

• Experience working with patients and families dealing with life-threatening illness and death.

Skills/Knowledge/Abilities:

• Demonstrated ability to provide supervision and advocacy and to work cooperatively as a member of an interdisciplinary care team.
• Demonstrated ability to be open, sensitive, flexible, and ecumenical.

Chaplain, Per Diem - Marina del Rey Hospital

Cedars-Sinai Marina del Rey Hospital

Patient Services

Full-time

Cedars-Sinai Marina del Rey Hospital does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of the race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, ancestry, physical or mental disability, legally protected medical condition (cancer-related or genetic characteristics or any genetic information), marital status, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, age (40 or older), military and/or veteran status or any other basis protected by federal or state law.

Cedars-Sinai Marina del Rey Hospital will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories, in accordance with the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring.

At Cedars-Sinai Marina del Rey Hospital, we are dedicated to the safety, health and wellbeing of our patients and employees. This includes protecting our patients from communicable diseases, such as influenza (flu) and COVID-19. For this reason, we require that all new employees receive a flu vaccine based on the seasonal availability of flu vaccine (typically during September through April each year) as a condition of employment, and annually thereafter as a conditions of continued employment, subject to medical exemption or religious accommodation. For the same reason, you may also be required to receive other vaccines such as COVID-19 as a condition of employment. Cedars-Sinai Marina del Rey Hospital reserves the right to make modifications to its required list of vaccines as required by law and/or policy. Cedars-Sinai’s AA Policy Statement (PDF) (opens in new window)