Chaplain (Clinical Pastoral Educator)

Serves as a Chaplain Clinical Pastoral Educator (CPE) performing senior-level clinical assignments for the VHA. The incumbent provides comprehensive religious, spiritual, and pastoral care to all persons that are commensurate with the needs, desires, and voluntary consent of the Veteran, caregiver, or staff. The incumbent addresses the spiritual component of health and wellness in every patient care setting to ensure that pastoral care is fully integrated into all aspects of chaplain services.

Duties Include but are not limited to: Serves as a certified Chaplain (CPE) providing comprehensive, religious ministryservices and training to Veteran patients and students according to their specific needs. Carries out an education ministry with the CPE Center, which is highly integrated intoVHA's Chaplain program. Provides thorough guidance and advice to Chaplain Servicemanagement staff, students, other Chaplains, and stakeholders. Manages the daily operations of the CPE Center and develops and implementsprogram policies and procedures. Serves as a certified educator of record for all CPEstudents for an assigned designated area. Provides administrative oversight andprogrammatic resources and monitors educational outcomes. Offers students an opportunity to develop and expand professional caring skills in aclinical setting to address a person's spiritual, emotional, and physical needs; and offersstudents experience with hands-on spiritual care for hospitalized patients. Maintains records for all educator evaluations, student records, center portfolio, andCPE accreditation requirements, which may include off-site CPE satellite and placementcontracts. Seeks approval for allied health trainee positions through the Office of AcademicAffiliations (OAA). Conducts recruitment and interviews and selects students for theCPE program. Ensures all documentation is completed for compliance. Develops educational curriculathat are measurable, outcome-oriented, and evidence-based and designed to meetboard certification competencies. Develops relationships with key staff related to the CPE program, e.g., clinicalpreceptors, Advisory Group members, and OAA staff. Provides extended and intensive pastoral counseling as an integral part of the treatmentprogram with patients facing complex, ethical, moral, and/or spiritual issues. Monitors the CPE Center's program effectiveness and modification of service pattern,which includes research and leadership of clinical teams. Develops and implementsmethods to measure the effectiveness of the Chaplain educational program. Uses outcome evaluations to improve educational services and to design educationsystem changes. Seeks best practices, primary research, and research literature thatinforms the ministry specialty and one's spiritual care practice. Provides leadership, direction, orientation, coaching, in-service training, staffdevelopment, and continuing education programs. Serves as a primary senior Chaplain education resource, spiritual advisor, and liaisonfor the spiritual needs of Veterans patients, students, caregivers, and staff. Conducts comprehensive religious services and worship, pastoral ministry, andadministration of Chaplain services. Addresses the religious, spiritual, moral, and ethicalproblems of patients and staff through educational means. Completes various complex educational projects, task groups, and assignments to obtain pertinent high-level information needed for Chaplain Service senior management officials. Work Schedule: Full-time, 07:30am-4:00pm, Rotating days and weekends Compressed/Flexible: Available Telework: Not available Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Functional Statement #: 635-512480 Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: May be Authorized for a Highly Qualified Candidate Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not available

You must be a U.S. Citizen to apply for this job. Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959. Must be proficient in written and spoken English. Subject to background/security investigation. Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process. Acceptable form(s) of identification will be required to complete pre-employment requirements (https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/form-i-9-acceptable-documents). Effective May 7, 2025, driver's licenses or state-issued identification cards that are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment. Participation in the seasonal influenza vaccination program is a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP). Complete all application requirements detailed in the "Required Documents" section of this announcement. As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you will be required to serve a 1 or 2-year trial period during which we will evaluate your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest. In determining if your employment advances the public interest, we may consider: your performance and conduct; the needs and interests of the agency; whether your continued employment would advance organizational goals of the agency or the Government; and whether your continued employment would advance the efficiency of the Federal service. Upon completion of your trial period, your employment will be terminated unless you receive certification, in writing, that your continued employment advances the public interest.