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You’ll want to join Billings Clinic for our outstanding quality of care, exciting environment, interesting cases from a vast geography, advanced technology and educational opportunities. We are in the top 1% of hospitals internationally for receiving Magnet® Recognition consecutively since 2006.

And you’ll want to stay at Billings Clinic for the amazing teamwork, caring atmosphere, and a culture that values kindness, safety and courage. This is an incredible place to learn and grow. Billings, Montana, is a friendly, college community in the Rocky Mountains with great schools and abundant family activities. Amazing outdoor recreation is just minutes from home. Four seasons of sunshine!

You can make a difference here.

About Us

Billings Clinic is a community-owned, not-for-profit, Physician-led health system based in Billings with more than 4,700 employees, including over 550 physicians and non-physician providers. Our integrated organization consists of a multi-specialty group practice and a 304-bed hospital.Learn more (https://www.billingsclinic.com/about-us/) about Billings Clinic (our organization, history, mission, leadership and regional locations) and how we are recognized nationally for our exceptional quality.

Your Benefits

We provide a comprehensive and competitive benefits package to all full- and part-time employees (minimum of 20 hours/week), including Medical, Dental, Vision, 403(b) Retirement Plan with employer matching, Defined Contribution Pension Plan, Paid Time Off, employee wellness program, and much more.Click here (https://www.billingsclinic.com/careers/employee-benefits/) for more information ordownload the Employee Benefits Guide (https://ncstoragemlbillings.blob.core.windows.net/public/2021%20Billings%20Clinic%20Staff%20Benefits%20Guide.pdf) .

Magnet: Commitment to Nursing Excellence

Billings Clinic is proud to be recognized for nursing excellence as a Magnet®-designated organization, joining only 97 other organizations worldwide that have achieved this honor four times. The re-designation process happens every four years. Click here (https://www.billingsclinic.com/campaign-landing-pages/magnet/) to learn more!

Pre-Employment Requirements

All new employees must complete several pre-employment requirements prior to starting. Click here (https://billingsclinic.csod.com/ats/careersite/search.aspx?site=15&c=billingsclinic) to learn more!

Chaplain (Per Diem)

SPIRITUAL CARE (BILLINGS CLINIC HOSPITAL)

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Shift: Varies

Employment Status: Per Diem

Hours per Pay Period: 0.01 = per diem (as needed) (Non-Exempt)

Starting Wage DOE: $25.12 - 31.40

The Chaplain is responsible for providing pastoral care to patients, their families, and as appropriate, staff. The chaplain visits patients and their families, making spiritual assessments, responding to their spiritual needs and providing crisis intervention as needed.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS

• Supports and models behaviors consistent with Billings Clinic’s mission, vision, values, code of business conduct and service expectations. Meets all mandatory organizational and departmental requirements. Maintains competency in all organizational, departmental and outside agency standards as it relates to the environment, employee, patient safety or job performance.

• Actively participates in the delivery of spiritual care to patients and families. Assesses patient and family spiritual needs; assists patients and families in using their faith in dealing with illness, trauma, and stress. Responds to referrals in a timely manner; offers continuing care when appropriate.

• Provides supportive and spiritual care in crisis situations, responding to CPR and trauma calls as well as other emergent referrals. Discerns needs in crisis, maintaining a calm and compassionate presence.

• Inclusively supports the diverse faith traditions and beliefs of patients and their family members as well as staff.

• Helps meet ritual and sacramental needs of patients, families, and staff. Respectfully helps patients, families, and staff draw upon spiritual resources important for them.

• Provides timely and sensitive chaplaincy care to the staff of Billings Clinic via individual and group interactions. Provides chaplaincy care to Billings Clinic in ways consonant with the values and mission statement of our organization

• Documents patient and family service provided, both in departmental records and in the patient’s medical record, entering information that is relevant to the patient’s medical, psycho-social, and spiritual goals of care. Must have an ability to communicate information in a clinical/interdepartmental context.

• Supports an interdisciplinary approach to pastoral care, participating in team meetings and rounds and serving on organizational committees as appointed.

• Works to maintain a positive relationship between Billings Clinic and community, especially community clergy and pastoral leaders.

• Seeks and creates opportunities to enhance the quality of chaplaincy care practice at Billings Clinic, including assuming responsibility for continued professional development, meeting all mandatory organizational and departmental requirements.

• Maintains competency in all organizational, departmental and outside agency environmental, employee or patient safety standards relevant to job performance.

• Performs other duties as assigned or needed to meet the needs of the department/organization.

Supports and models behaviors consistent with Billings Clinic’s mission, vision, values, code of business conduct and service expectations. Meets all mandatory organizational and departmental requirements. Maintains competency in all organizational, departmental and outside agency standards as it relates to the environment, employee, patient safety or job performance.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Billings Clinic health care organization and services provided

• Billings Clinic policy and procedures, both organizational and departmental

• Customer service techniques and Personal Service Excellence (PSE) skills

• Personal computers, hardware and software

• HIPAA and confidentiality requirements

• Billings Clinic Corporate Compliance Program

• Billings Clinic Code of Business Conduct

• Patient’s/resident’s rights

• Current trends and developments in pastoral field

• Religious principles of major faiths

• Professional communication skills, both verbal and written

• Basic techniques of counseling and crisis intervention

• Assessment of the spiritual needs of patients/families

• Committed to creating, supporting, and contributing to a diverse, inclusive, and welcoming environment of care.

• Analytical skills to collect data and develop reports on activities

• Conflict resolution

• Incorporate population specific needs into all aspects of communication and patient care; scope of services provided will encompass age groups from infant through geriatric

• Communicate clearly and effectively, both verbal and written

• Work effectively in a team environment

• Establish and maintain collaborative relationships

• Concentrate and pay close attention to details

• Maintain flexibility to adapt to a variety of workload assignments

• Serve distressed and anxious patients, families and employees

• Respond calmly, professionally and compassionately when dealing with crisis, death, grief, emergent or stressful situations

• Involved in complex judgments concerning prioritizing direct care coverage, distinguishing between privileged communication (i.e., confessions) that she/he has with a patient as a clergy person and confidential communication (i.e., emotional concerns) that may be shared with other members of the health care team, handling complaints from any source, provision of support in crisis situations and death, and the referral of religious/supportive care to additional resources. MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

Minimum Qualifications

Education

• 4 Year / Bachelors Degree Bachelor’s degree in Theology, Chaplaincy or equivalent training at an accredited religious seminary or theological school plus clinical pastoral education training, required

• Master’s degree in Theology, Chaplaincy or equivalent training at an accredited religious seminary or theological school plus clinical pastoral education training, preferred

Experience

• Minimum of three (3) years of full-time ministry work experience which includes a minimum of two years of institutional related experience in providing spiritual care to a diverse population.

• Must have hospital chaplain experience or CPE – Clinical Pastoral Education

Certifications / Licenses

• Licensed, ordained and/or ecclesiastically endorsed with a recognized religious community or institutional chaplaincy ministry

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Billings Clinic is Montana’s largest health system serving Montana, Wyoming and the western Dakotas. A not-for-profit organization led by a physician CEO, the health system is governed by a board of community members, nurses and physicians. Billings Clinic includes an integrated multi-specialty group practice, tertiary care hospital and trauma center, based in Billings, Montana. Learn more atwww.billingsclinic.com/aboutus (https://www.billingsclinic.com/about-us/)

Billings Clinic is committed to being an inclusive and welcoming employer, that strives to be kind, safe, and courageous in all we do. As an equal opportunity employer, our policies and processes are designed to achieve fair and equitable treatment of all employees and job applicants. All employees and job applicants will be provided the same treatment in all aspects of the employment relationship, regardless of race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, pregnancy, marital status, national origin, age, genetic information, military status, and/or disability. To ensure we provide an accessible candidate experience for prospective employees, please let us know if you need any accommodations during the recruitment process.