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This position assesses spiritual care needs, and also develops, implements, and updates spiritual care treatment plans in order to meet culturally appropriate emotional and spiritual needs of patients and families according to best-practice standards for professional chaplains. The position also provides spiritual care support to hospital staff.
Corporate Overview: The University of Utah is a Level 1 Trauma Center and is nationally ranked and recognized for our academic research, quality standards and overall patient experience. Our five hospitals and eleven clinics provide excellence in our comprehensive services, medical advancement, and overall patient outcomes.
ResponsibilitiesEssential Functions- Completes spiritual needs assessments and formulates interventions strategies based on professional best practice guidelines for addressing spiritual care needs.
- Actively collaborates with all members of the treatment team, furthering team-based understanding of significant spiritual needs and spiritual/emotional factors contributing to the patient's well-being.
- In coordination with other IDT members, provides patient/family/staff support in times of crisis, death or difficult diagnoses per hospital and professional protocols.
- Provides spiritually appropriate counseling or guidance in individual and group settings, affirming the dignity and autonomy of an individual’s own orientation to spirituality and/or religion.
- Conducts and/or assists in coordination of individual, communal, and/or public religious rituals including prayer, spiritually-informed mindfulness/centering, baptisms, weddings, seasonal worship services, and at end-of-life.
- Liaises between patients/families and community-faith leaders to coordinate tradition-specific spiritual care.
- Ability to perform the essential functions of the job as outlined above.
- Demonstrated respect for people of all religious/spiritual backgrounds, for the care recipient’s religious/spiritual orientation and the ability to provide spiritual care in accordance with this frame.
- Excellent verbal/written communication and active listening skills.
- Excellent public speaking and leadership ability .
- Excellent interpersonal skills and evidence of ability to effectively connect with people of all ages with empathy and compassion.
- Demonstrated progress towards Board Certification eligibility by the Association of Professional Chaplains or other nationally recognized certifying body (NACC, NAJC, CACC).
- Endorsement and good-standing with an APC-recognized faith-body.
- At least one year experience working in a Trauma Level I or II level hospital.
- Bi-lingual in English and Spanish.
Employee must be able to meet the following requirements with or without an accommodation.
- This position may stand for sustained periods of time and/or walk for long distances moving from one area to another that may exert up to 10 pounds and may lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects.
Skills Required
- Progress toward Board Certification eligibility through the Association of Professional Chaplains or another nationally recognized certifying body such as NACC, NAJC, or CACC
- Endorsement and good standing with an APC-recognized faith body
- At least one year of experience working in a Trauma Level I or II hospital
- Bilingual English and Spanish language skills
University of Utah Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about University of Utah and has not been reviewed or approved by University of Utah.
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Retirement Support — Employer-funded retirement contributions on both the academic campus and U of U Health are notably strong, with automatic contributions and additional voluntary savings options. This emphasis makes long-term financial benefits a distinctive part of the total compensation offering.
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Healthcare Strength — Multiple medical plan choices, robust mental-health support through the Employee Assistance Program, and wellness programs create a comprehensive health offering. Network options and wellness incentives further enhance coverage quality.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave policies provide options for fully paid periods or extended partial-pay leave for staff, with parallel provisions at U of U Health. Separate frameworks for faculty include modified duties and leave arrangements during family transitions.
University of Utah Insights
What We Do
The University of Utah, located in Salt Lake City in the foothills of the Wasatch Mountains, is the flagship institution of higher learning in Utah. Founded in 1850, it serves over 31,000 students from across the U.S. and the world. With over 72 major subjects at the undergraduate level and more than 90 major fields of study at the graduate level, including law and medicine, the university prepares students to live and compete in the global workplace. Known for its proximity to seven world-class ski resorts within 40 minutes of campus, the U encourages an active, holistic lifestyle, innovation and collaborative thinking to engage students, faculty and business leaders. The University of Utah became a member of the PAC-12 conference in July 2011. Technology and Commercialization The University of Utah is tops in the country for creating start-up companies from university research, according to a ranking by the Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM). See http://unews.utah.edu/news_releases/u-of-utah-no-1-for-startups for more information. Forbes magazine’s recent ranking of the “Best States for Business” pointed to “an educated labor force” as a big reason Utah came in at number one. The U supplies many of the employees for companies that keep expanding their operations in Utah, such as Goldman Sachs, Adobe, Omniture, Oracle, Ebay and many others. http://pac12info.utah.edu/commercialization-of-innovation/ Healthcare University of Utah Health Care recently ranked first in the nation in a prestigious national study. The University Health System Consortium’s 2010 Quality and Accountability Study compared 98 of the nation’s top academic medical centers and ranked them based on core quality measures, patient safety indicators, mortality rates, re-admission rates, and patient satisfaction scores. See more about University of Utah Health Care at http://healthcare.utah.edu/index.php
