On Call Chaplain

On Call Chaplain

SEARCH EXTENDED UNTIL 09/19/2025

Hiring Department: Continuum of Care

Location: Chicago, IL USA

Requisition ID: 1033563

Posting Close Date: May 21, 2025

Salary: The salary range of employees currently holding equivalent position is $24 an hour

About the University of Illinois Chicago

UIC is among the nation’s preeminent urban public research universities, a Carnegie RU/VH research institution, and the largest university in Chicago. UIC serves over 34,000 students, comprising one of the most diverse student bodies in the nation and is designated as a Minority Serving Institution (MSI), an Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institution (AANAPSI) and a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI). Through its 16 colleges, UIC produces nationally and internationally recognized multidisciplinary academic programs in concert with civic, corporate and community partners worldwide, including a full complement of health sciences colleges. By emphasizing cutting-edge and transformational research along with a commitment to the success of all students, UIC embodies the dynamic, vibrant and engaged urban university. Recent “Best Colleges” rankings published by News & World Report, found UIC climbed up in its rankings among top public schools in the nation and among all national universities. UIC has over 300,000 alumni, and is one of the largest employers in the city of Chicago.

The University of Illinois Chicago offers a very competitive benefits portfolio. .

About UI Health

The University of Illinois Hospital & Health Sciences System (UI Health) provides comprehensive care, education, and research to the people of Illinois and beyond. A part of the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), UI Health comprises a clinical enterprise that includes a 495-bed tertiary care hospital, 22 outpatient clinics, and 13 Mile Square Health Center facilities, which are Federally Qualified Health Centers. It also includes the seven UIC health science colleges: the College of Applied Health Sciences; the College of Dentistry; the School of Public Health; the Jane Addams College of Social Work; and the Colleges of Medicine, Pharmacy, and Nursing, including regional campuses in Peoria, Quad Cities, Rockford, Springfield, and Urbana. UI Health is dedicated to the pursuit of health equity.

Position Summary
This position is responsible for the delivery of pastoral care to patients, their families, students, and staff. This position is responsible to ensure that the religious and spiritual needs of patients, their families, students and staff are met.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Provide pastoral ministry (in a timely manner) to patients/families and clinical personnel taking into consideration multiple elements of cultural and ethnic diversity and social conditions, without imposing one’s own perspectives.
• Assess patient and family spiritual needs and assist families in using their faith and/or spiritual resources in dealing with illness, trauma, and stress; visit newly admitted patients and patients with special requests; visit critical care areas; follow up with patients from previous visits as appropriate.
• Provide crisis intervention as necessary.
• Provide a range of skills, including empathic reflection, listening/attending, and appropriate use of religious/spiritual resources.
• Document consultation outcomes and retain records per Pastoral Care process.
• Maintain a working relationship between Pastoral Care and medical staff, nursing staff, and other departments.
• Contribute to the department’s plan for continuous quality improvement (CQI).
• Support an interdisciplinary approach to pastoral care.
• Assess patients and families spiritual risk factors to include relationship with God/Deity, prior functioning levels, appropriateness and adequacy of support systems, reaction to illness and ability to cope.
• Provide pastoral counseling to patients and families regarding religious/spiritual, and emotional consequences of illness and/or disability, accessing and mobilizing family/community spiritual resources to meet identified needs.
• Provide crisis ministry and bereavement/grief ministry with patients, families and clinical personnel.
• Collaborate with the patient, family and multidisciplinary team to assure identified religious/spiritual/cultural needs are addressed.
• Facilitate spirituality support group on the adult in-patient psychiatric unit, the rehabilitation unit, and other units as invited.
• Provide for coordination of services with community religious institutions.
• Educate patients and families regarding Advance Directives.
• Adhere to all hospital standards, policies, and procedures. Adhere to the code of ethics of the Association of Professional Chaplains.
• Perform other related duties and participate in special projects as assigned.
• Perform other related duties and participate in special projects as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited theological school or religious studies, or equivalent, ordination or commissioning for ministry by a recognized religious group, and a current endorsement for chaplaincy by a recognized religious group required.
• Minimum of one (1) unit of Clinical Pastoral education required.
• An awareness of self as pastoral caregiver, including attitudes, values, assumptions, strengths and weaknesses, and the ways that ministry affects persons.
• Knowledge of the hospital/clinic system and multi-disciplinary teams.
• Empathy for the problems experienced by patients and families; commitment to help the distressed.
• The interpersonal skills needed to work with distressed and anxious patients, families, and staff.
• Demonstrated computer literacy; ability to document & retrieve information through computer applications.
• Ability to work independently, and exercise good judgment.
• Flexibility with scheduling on-call shifts.
• Possess excellent interpersonal skills in order to establish and maintain professional relationships with members of the health care team.