Chaplain

Where You’ll Work

Dignity Health Woodland Memorial Hospital is Yolo County’s largest health care provider, serving the community since 1905. Woodland Memorial Hospital is a 108-bed acute care facility offering the most comprehensive range of health care services in Yolo County, including inpatient and outpatient surgical services, family birth center/labor and delivery, emergency services, home health services, palliative care, inpatient mental health services, sleep disorders center and cancer care services. With strong ties to our community, we believe in providing compassionate, high-quality health care to you and your family, close to home. Woodland Memorial Hospital is part of Dignity Health, one of the nation’s largest health care systems with a 22-state network. For more information, please visit our website here at www.dignityhealth.org/woodland.

One Community. One Mission. One California 

Job Summary and Responsibilities

As our Spiritual Care Chaplain, you will provide compassionate emotional and spiritual support to patients, families, and the healthcare team, helping them integrate and process life experiences within their faith, beliefs, and values.

Every day you will provide compassionate spiritual and emotional support to patients, families, and staff, conduct spiritual assessments, provide appropriate interventions, respond to crises, and document care in the electronic health record according to organizational standards.

You will be expected to coordinate religious rites and spiritual resources, support patients navigating serious illness, grief, and end-of-life care, advocate for patient beliefs and values, and participate in interdisciplinary team rounds and family conferences.

To be successful in this role, you must have a graduate degree in theology, divinity, or related field (or equivalent), have completed four units of Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE), and be certification eligible by a cognate group such as the APC, CASC, NACC, or NAJC.

• Spiritual Assessment and Intervention: Conduct comprehensive spiritual assessments to identify patient needs and provide appropriate, compassionate interventions tailored to diverse cultural and religious backgrounds.
• Crisis and Emotional Support: Respond promptly to crises and provide ongoing emotional and spiritual support to patients, families, and staff navigating complex life experiences.
• Documentation and Standards: Maintain accurate and timely documentation of all spiritual care interactions within the electronic health record in strict accordance with organizational standards.
• Religious Rites and Resources: Coordinate religious rites and facilitate spiritual resources, including active collaboration with community clergy, faith representatives, and spiritual care volunteers.
• Advocacy for Patient Values: Act as a dedicated advocate for patients' beliefs, values, preferences, and spiritual needs, particularly during end-of-life care, grief, and serious illness.
• Interdisciplinary Collaboration: Serve as an integral member of the healthcare team by participating in patient care rounds, family conferences, and providing appropriate referrals to address the holistic needs of those we serve.

Job Requirements

Required

• Education: Graduate degree in theology, divinity, or related field or equivalency as deemed by a cognate certifying group with documentation.
• Clinical Pastoral Education: Four units of Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) by education programs accepted by one of the four cognate groups.

Preferred

• Endorsement by their faith group.
• Certification eligible by the four cognate groups: Association of Professional Chaplains (APC), the Canadian Association for Spiritual Care (CASC), the National Association of Catholic Chaplains (NACC), or the National Association of Jewish Chaplains (NAJC).