Develop standards of performance, evaluate performance, and recommend personnel actions. Develop goals, objectives, and establish/implement policies & procedures for adequate staffing. Coordinate and provide spiritual programs and support to meet the needs of patients, patient families, hospital employees, and medical staff. Ensure adherence to Hospitals and departmental policies and procedures. Patient care assignment may include neonate, pediatric, adolescent, adult and geriatric age groups.
BUDGET - Develop and administer the department's annual budget; monitor and approve expenditures
SPIRITUAL NEEDS - Provide in-house, off-site, and on-call spiritual need coverage to patients, families and hospital staff by responding to codes, death, and other emergencies
PROGRAMS - Collaborate with Hospital Care Team and committees in problem solving; serve as an ethical resource for staff, and disseminate bioethical information
REPRESENTATION - Represent the Department on hospital committees as requested
DEVELOPMENT - Enhance professional growth and development through participation in educational programs, reading current literature, attending in-services, meetings and workshops
PATIENT SAFETY 2 - Demonstrate proactive approach to patient safety by seeking opportunities to improve patient safety through questioning of current policies and processes
PATIENT SAFETY 3 - Identify and report/correct environmental conditions and/or situations that may put a patient at undue risk
PATIENT SAFETY 4 - Report potential or actual patient safety concerns, medical errors and/or near misses in a timely manner
PATIENT SAFETY 5 - Encourage patients to actively participate in their own care by asking questions and reporting treatment or situations that they don't understand or may "not seem right"
Education Requirements:
Masters of Divinity or equivalent
Experience Requirements:
5 years directly related experience
Experience Requirements - Preferred:
Bilingual English/Keres, Tewa, Tiwa, Towa, Zuni, or Navajo
Bilingual English/Spanish
Physical Demands Requirements:
Light Work: Exerting up to 20 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 10 pounds of force frequently, and/or a negligible amount of force constantly (Constantly: activity or condition exists 2/3 or more of the time) to move objects. Physical demand requirements are in excess of those for Sedentary Work. May require walking or standing to a significant degree or requires sitting most of the time but entails pushing and/or pulling of arm or leg controls; and/or may require working at a production rate pace entailing the constant pushing and/or pulling of materials even though the weight of materials is negligible.
Working Conditions Requirements:
Sig Hazard: Chemicals, bio hazardous materials requiring extensive safety precautions and may require protective equipment