Pastoral Care Educator

Department/Unit:

Spiritual Care

Work Shift:

Day (United States of America)

Salary Range:

$84,783.00 - $131,414.00

The ACPE Certified Educator is a certified educator to the Pastoral Care Program. The ACPE educator is on site to plan, teach, and run the CPE Program. The ACPE Educator supervises residents, participates in patient care, and promotes and sustains twenty-four-hour spiritual care coverage. The ACPE educator participates in department and hospital activities. The ACPE educator supervises ACPE candidates to become certified educators.

Minimum Qualifications:

Education:

• Master of Divinity or related Advanced degree

Licensure, Certification & Registration:

• ACPE Certified Educator (CE)
• BCC though APC, NACC, or NAJC is preferred.

Experience:

• Experience in an academic medical center preferred

Skills, Knowledge & Abilities:

• Able to manage all aspects of the CPE program.     
• Plan, coordinate, and supervise CPE students.
• Coordinate students’ clinical experiences in collaboration with other program faculty.
• Ensure compliance with all ACPE Accreditation requirements.
• Oversee the PAG’s functioning and member participation.
• Serve as a member of the multifaith chaplaincy team.
• Assume supervision of a resident group.
• Evaluate and recommend spiritual care research opportunities.
• Acclimate to environment of an academic medical center.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities, including but not limited to:

Mission, Core Values and Service Excellence: Contributes to the creation of a compassionate and caring environment for patients, families and colleagues through displays of kindness and active listening. Recognizes and appreciates that each employee’s work is valuable and contributes to the success of the Mission. Demonstrates excellence in daily work. Actively participates in performance and quality improvement activities and works toward enhancing customer/patient satisfaction. Exhibits positive service excellence skills to patients, visitors and coworkers by greeting others in a friendly manner, keeping customers/patients/colleagues informed about progress, delays and changes. Demonstrates effective teamwork by interacting in a positive manner with colleagues and creating a collaborative work environment. Initiates open communication, conveys positive intent, offers assistance. Contributes to a safe and secure environment for patients, visitors, colleagues by following established procedures and protocols, which address the needs of a diverse patient population and workforce. Demonstrates stewardship by thoughtful and responsible use of resources including maintaining a clean and hospitable environment, starting work on time, displaying a consciousness regarding costs, supplies and department finances. Demonstrates respect for individual differences of each person by acknowledging the essence of each person, appreciating and responding to unique, spiritual, personal and cultural backgrounds of patients, families and colleagues.   
 

Compliance with ACPE Standards Remain in compliance with all ACPE standards, policies, and procedures. Program self-identification. Timely registration of student units and final evaluations. Up-to-date and accurate portfolio. Demonstrates compliance during site visit.

Supervision/Training Supervise students, chaplain residents, chaplain interns, and educator candidates. Promote and sustain the chaplain resident program. Partners with Spiritual Care Manager to sustain 24/7 pastoral care coverage for the medical center. Supervises students in their spiritual care to patients and staff. Apply both individual and group supervision for student’s personal and professional growth.

Clinical education Provides theological and professional education using clinical methods of learning. Develop students to practice in diverse contexts of spiritual care. Develop students understanding of ability to apply clinical methods of learning.

Spiritual Formation Develop student’s awareness of themselves as ministers and of the ways their ministry affects persons. Develop students’ awareness of how their attitudes, values, assumptions, strengths, and opportunities affect their spiritual care. Develop students’ ability to engage and apply support, confrontation, and clarification of the peer group for the integrations of [personal attributes and pastoral functioning.

Organization and Time Management Adheres to AMC Corporate Compliance Plan including responsibility for internal reporting of non-compliance to plan. Assist as needed, as directed with training new personnel, either demonstrating a process, acting as a learning partner, or providing direct training. Review and respond to quality monitors in accordance with departmental policy.

Organizational Requirements:

• Maintain strict adherence to the Albany Medical Center Confidentiality policy.
• Incorporate Albany Medical Center Behavioral Standards and Guiding Principles into daily activities.
• Comply with all Albany Medical Center Policies.
• Comply with behavioral expectations of the department.
• Maintain courteous and effective interactions with colleagues.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the job description, performance expectations, and competency assessment.
• Demonstrate a commitment toward meeting and exceeding the needs of our customers and consistently adheres to Customer Service standards.
• Participate in departmental and/or interdepartmental quality improvement activities. 
• Participate in and successfully completes Mandatory Education.
• Perform all other duties as needed or directed to meet the needs of the department.

This Job Description is intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this classification.  It is not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, requirements, duties and skills required of personnel so classified.  Additional duties and responsibilities that are specific to the Department or Unit are identified and maintained by the Manager as an Addendum to the Job Description..

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