Chaplain Part-Time - Chicago-Metro

About the position It's fun to work in a company where people truly BELIEVE in what they're doing! We're committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business. Please Note: While assigned hours are generally consistent from week to week, there are no guaranteed minimal hours and positional needs will vary depending on Chaplain availability and Client requirements. Position Summary Chaplains are the frontline staff fulfilling the mission and Christian ministry of MCHAP, by using their gifts and talents to serve company employees and their immediate families. Part-time - Chicago-Metro Essential Functions and 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. Ministry
• Makes regular visits to company worksites (usually weekly) 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.
• May provide confidential pastoral discussions for problem issues of employees and their immediate family members including, but not limited to family matters, divorce, serious illness, care of aging parents, death and grief recovery, parenting, financial situations that may include debt discussions, budgeting, and other life issues related to financial stress, as well as any other personal issues. Provides referral service and acts as coordinator for specialized assistance to employees and/or immediate family members with specific needs.
• May assist in the planning, conduct or attend funerals for employees or immediate family members, including follow-up support and encouragement to immediate family members during the grief period.
• May make 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.
• May provide post-termination care for laid-off or terminated employees in order to foster a smooth transition to another work environment.
• May facilitate, but not lead, spiritual enrichment activities, as an employee-sponsored and led activity will usually be more fruitful than a chaplain led event.
• 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 (i.e., serious illness, accidents, traumatic events, and funerals).
• Participates in new employee orientation to explain the Employee Care Service and the role of the Chaplain Team.
• With Executive Director of Operations (EDO) permission, responds positively and assertively to other duties and services requested by executive leadership of companies, within the scope of the Letter of Agreement between MCHAP Chaplains and the company. Marketplace Chaplains is the largest and longest continuing provider of workplace chaplains to corporate America. Founded in Dallas, Texas, on January 1, 1984, Marketplace Chaplains has been serving small and large private and public companies with a personalized and proactive Employee Care Service through the use of dedicated Chaplain Care Teams for each company location. Chaplains are voluntary to use, neutral from company operations, and conversations with our chaplains are strictly confidential. Marketplace Chaplains has expanded every year for the past 40 years and today our 2,200 Chaplains serve over 1,500,000 employees and family members at 1,500 client companies in the U.S., Canada, and Puerto Rico. Our experienced and trained professional workplace chaplains make over 25,000 work-site visits per month to extend, enhance and broaden the level of care, concern and compassion client company leaders have for their people. An employee reaches out to one of our chaplains every 4 minutes! Voted the #1 benefit by many employees, Marketplace's client companies regularly see increased attendance, productivity, teamwork, safety and retention as an environment of care valuing the individual is expressed in a tangible way. Our work is caring, and our care is working.
• 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 (usually weekly) 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, fune