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Req #: 243967

Department: UW MEDICAL CENTER - MONTLAKE - SPIRITUAL CARE

Posting Date: 03/12/2025

Closing Info: Open Until Filled

Salary: $6,056 - $9,197 per month

Shift: First Shift

Notes: As an employee you will enjoy generous benefits and work/life programs. For detailed information on Benefits for this position, click here. (https://hr.uw.edu/benefits/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2018/02/benefits-summary-classified-staff-greater-than-half-time-20230701_a11y.pdf)

The UW MEDICAL CENTER SPIRITUAL CARE & WELLBEING DEPARTMENT has an outstanding opportunity for a SPIRITUAL CARE PROVIDER at UW Medical Center - Montlake .

WORK SCHEDULE • Full-Time / 40 hours per week • Day Shift - Sunday through Thursday

POSITION HIGHLIGHTS • Provide high-quality, cross-culturally sensitive spiritual care to patients, families, and staff throughout the University of Washington Medical Center - Montlake. • Ensure service excellence related to spiritual care of patients, patient caregivers, staff, staff education and organizational integration.

DEPARTMENT DESCRIPTION The mission of the Department of Spiritual Care & Wellbeing is to support patients, caregivers and staff as they navigate suffering, uncertainty, and loss. Our department values reflect the UW Medicine’s Service Culture Guidelines of compassion, respect, collaboration, teamwork, diversity, equity, inclusion, innovation, education, integrity, accountability and excellence. We are committed to the clinical practice and assessment models of outcomes oriented spiritual care. We value being a member of a vibrant learning community.

PRIMARY JOB RESPONSIBILITIES • Provide compassionate and effective spiritual care to patients and families; respond to requests in a timely manner; document spiritual care assessments, interventions, outcomes, plans of care in alignment with departmental standards; offer and receive consultation with the health care team in delivery of patient care, functioning in collaborative, cooperative manner, make appropriate referrals. • Serve as an advocate that respects and articulates patients' and families' spiritual needs in balance with healthcare team on delivery of patient centered care. • Triage patient/caregiver and staff care needs in alignment with departmental values. Facilitate clear communication and referrals among multiple UWMC-ML and community spiritual care providers. Cover on-call pager during day shift. • Work collaboratively with colleagues, nurturing a creative, compassionate, and learning culture. • Mentor, provide leadership, and train new per diem staff and interdisciplinary learners as Spiritual Care & Wellbeing department designates. • Perform role with professionalism, confidentiality, compassion, ethics, sensitivity to all cultures and spiritualities, in alignment with APC Standards of Practice, and UWMC’s Service Culture Guidelines. • Introduce spiritual distress, the scope and practice of spiritual care, grief education and other spiritual care and wellbeing topics. • Support hospital staff wellbeing via individual and group debriefings (e.g. Tea for the Soul, critical incident and moral distress debriefs, grief support), and by creating new opportunities for staff support and staff wellbeing education. Coordinate Tea for the Soul on key units.

Strong candidates will have a familiarity and commitment to outcome-oriented chaplaincy, be a Board Certified Chaplain, certified by the Association of Professional Chaplains (APC), or equivalent certifying body and have a minimum 2 years of experience as a Clinical Spiritual Care Provider in a busy, highly acute hospital setting and with palliative care. Fluency in Spanish, is desired.

REQUIRED POSITION QUALIFICATIONS • Master of Divinity (MDiv) or equivalent from seminary accredited by the Association of Theological Schools • Have completed at least one unit of CPE in the ACPE Program. Preference to those who have completed four units of CPE • Must be in good standing with a nationally recognized religious, spiritual, or philosophical body.

TO APPLY: Please submit an updated application, complete the assessments, and submit a cover letter through our online application. Please also submit a current Verbatim or case study (within last 3 years preferred) that reflects your level of clinical skill, level of personal awareness, and your facility to address spiritual distress, and end of life issues. You may submit the Verbatim/case study directly to the Manager of Spiritual Care & Wellbeing, at spiritualcare@uw.edu. Incomplete applications will not be considered for this position. ABOUT UW MEDICAL CENTER-MONTLAKE UW Medical Center is an acute care academic medical center located in Seattle with two campuses: Montlake and Northwest. As the No. 1 hospital in Seattle and Washington State since 2012 (U.S. News & World Report) and nationally ranked in seven specialties, UW Medical Center prides itself on compassionate patient care as well as its pioneering medical advances.

The UW Medical Center-Montlake campus is located on the edge of the beautiful UW campus which includes many amenities available to our staff as well as very convenient public transit options including the Sound Transit’s light rail station across the street.

Excellence. Exploration. Education. (https://www.uwmedicine.org/about/career-opportunities/uw-medical-center-montlake) Become part of our team. Join our mission to make life healthier for everyone in our community.

ABOUT UW MEDICINE – WHERE YOUR IMPACT GOES FURTHER
UW Medicine is Washington’s only health system that includes a top-rated medical school and an internationally recognized research center. UW Medicine’s mission is to improve the health of the public by advancing medical knowledge, providing outstanding primary and specialty care to the people of the region, and preparing tomorrow’s physicians, scientists and other health professionals.

All across UW Medicine, our employees collaborate to perform the highest quality work with integrity and compassion and to create a respectful, welcoming environment where every patient, family, student and colleague is valued and honored. Nearly 29,000 healthcare professionals, researchers, and educators work in the UW Medicine family of organizations that includes: Harborview Medical Center, UW Medical Center - Montlake, UW Medical Center - Northwest, Valley Medical Center, UW Medicine Primary Care, UW Physicians, UW School of Medicine, and Airlift Northwest.

Join our mission to make life healthier for everyone in our community.

University of Washington is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, among other things, race, religion, color, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, sex, age, protected veteran or disabled status, or genetic information.