About the Role
Chaplains serve as the frontline staff fulfilling the mission and Christian ministry of MCHAP, using their gifts and talents to serve company employees and their immediate families.
Responsibilities
- Serves as a messenger and conveyor of faith, mission, and purpose.
- Interacts with companies, their employees, and the community in a manner that exhibits character through personal and spiritual disciplines.
- Makes regular visits to company worksites to interact with employees and build relationships of trust and friendship motivated by Christian faith.
- Visits employees or immediate family members wherever care can be expressed and help given: hospitals, nursing homes, funeral homes, family residences, or other sites.
- Provides confidential pastoral discussions for problem issues of employees and their immediate family members.
- Provides referral service and acts as coordinator for specialized assistance to employees and/or immediate family members with specific needs.
- Assists in the planning, conduct or attend funerals for employees or immediate family members, including follow-up support and encouragement.
- Makes jail visits to employees and immediate family members.
- Works with companies to serve notifications of death and serious injuries to families and other employees, encouraging those impacted by various tragedies.
- Provides post-termination care for laid-off or terminated employees to foster a smooth transition.
- Facilitates spiritual enrichment activities as an employee-sponsored and led activity.
- Provides, as appropriate/requested, literature and other resources to assist company employees with life issues.
- Represents companies to clients/customers where it would be appropriate to ministry services involved.
- Participates in new employee orientation to explain the Employee Care Service and the role of the Chaplain Team.
- Responds positively and assertively to other duties and services requested by executive leadership of companies, within the scope of 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.
- Skills to effectively listen and interact with clients, employees, and their families.
- Skills to deliver community presentations.
- Skills to deal effectively with family members and staff under stressful circumstances.
- High regard for the dignity and worth of clients, employees and their families.
- Skills to cope with stressful situations and able to document accurately according to standards.
- Spiritual maturity and commitment to a Christian lifestyle and to MCHAPs Ministry values.
- Incorporates Christian values and beliefs in day-to-day activities and in the performance of job duties.
- Has a fundamental understanding of the Holy Bible and its proper application.
- Attests to a saving faith in Jesus Christ and actively participates in a biblically based church.
- Demonstrated ability to interact professionally with diplomacy, patience, and courtesy with diverse groups.
- Ability to establish and maintain effective and cooperative working relationships while providing exceptional customer service.
- Ability to make administrative and procedural decisions and judgments on sensitive, confidential issues.
- Demonstrated excellent oral and written communication skills to communicate and interact effectively with leadership, colleagues, employees, and families.
- Ability to maintain emotional stability to cope with human suffering, emergencies, and other stresses.
- Demonstrated skill in analyzing information to define and follow up on problems or objectives.
- Ability to identify solutions and solve problems.
- Demonstrated skill in interpreting policy and procedures related to the position and keeping others informed.
- Demonstrated computer proficiency using Google Suites, Microsoft Office, or other equivalent software, internet, email messaging, and web-based software applications.
- Ability to understand and learn new technology programs.
- Must have active state driver’s license and state minimum auto insurance.
- Must pass a pre-employment background check.
Skills
- Bilingual Spanish
- Effective listening
- Client interaction
- Employee interaction
- Family interaction
- Community presentations
- Stress management
- Accurate documentation
- Professionalism
- Diplomacy
- Patience
- Courtesy
- Customer service
- Administrative decision-making
- Procedural judgment
- Oral communication
- Written communication
- Emotional stability
- Problem analysis
- Problem-solving
- Policy interpretation
- Computer proficiency
- Google Suites
- Microsoft Office
- Internet navigation
- Email messaging
- Web-based software applications
- Technology learning
Location
- Hauppauge, NY
Work Type
- Part Time
- Remote
- Field
About the Company
- Committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business.
- The work environment is dependent upon the clients’ worksite.
- Work environments can include manufacturing, hospitals, office buildings, and funeral homes with differing levels of temperature, noise, and light exposure.
