Chaplain – Part-Time

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Part-time chaplain providing Christian pastoral care to employees and families. Visiting client worksites, hospitals, homes, and funeral settings across Michigan.

Responsibilities:

  • Serve as a messenger and conveyor of faith, mission, and purpose
  • Interact with companies, employees, and the community while exhibiting character through personal and spiritual disciplines
  • Make regular, usually weekly, visits to company worksites to build relationships of trust and friendship motivated by Christian faith
  • Visit employees or immediate family members in hospitals, nursing homes, funeral homes, family residences, and other care locations
  • Provide confidential pastoral discussions on family matters, divorce, serious illness, aging parents, death and grief, parenting, financial stress, and other personal issues
  • Provide referrals and coordinate specialized assistance for employees and immediate family members
  • Assist with planning, conducting, or attending funerals and provide follow-up grief support
  • Make jail visits to employees and immediate family members when needed
  • Serve notifications of death and serious injuries and encourage affected families and employees
  • Provide post-termination care for laid-off or terminated employees
  • Facilitate spiritual enrichment activities when appropriate, without leading them
  • Provide literature and resources for employees’ life issues
  • Represent companies to clients and customers in ministry-related situations such as illness, accidents, traumatic events, and funerals
  • Participate in new employee orientation to explain the Employee Care Service and Chaplain Team role
  • Perform additional duties requested by company executive leadership with EDO permission and within the Letter of Agreement

Requirements:

  • Ability to work as a member of an interdisciplinary group and in an interfaith setting
  • Ability to accept different lifestyles, cultures, beliefs, and values
  • Effective listening and interpersonal interaction skills
  • Ability to deliver community presentations
  • Ability to deal effectively with family members and staff under stressful circumstances
  • High regard for the dignity and worth of clients, employees, and their families
  • Ability to cope with stressful situations and document accurately according to standards
  • Spiritual maturity and commitment to a Christian lifestyle and MCHAP Ministry values
  • Fundamental understanding of the Holy Bible and its proper application
  • Saving faith in Jesus Christ and active participation in a biblically based church
  • Professional diplomacy, patience, and courtesy with diverse groups
  • Ability to establish and maintain effective and cooperative working relationships
  • Ability to make administrative and procedural decisions on sensitive, confidential issues
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills
  • Emotional stability when coping with human suffering, emergencies, and other stresses
  • Skill in analyzing information, defining and following up on problems or objectives
  • Ability to identify solutions and solve problems
  • Skill in interpreting relevant policies and procedures and keeping others informed
  • Computer proficiency using Google Suites, Microsoft Office, internet, email, and web-based software applications
  • Ability to learn new technology programs
  • Active state driver’s license and state minimum auto insurance where servicing clients
  • Must pass a pre-employment background check

Benefits:

  • No guaranteed minimal hours; assigned hours generally consistent week to week
  • Part-time schedule