St Johns Regional Medical Center·Oxnard, California
Provide spiritual, religious, and existential care to patients, families, and staff, particularly during crises or grief. Collaborate with interdisciplinary healthcare teams to integrate holistic care and advocate for the spiritual needs of diverse populations.
Where You’ll Work Founded in 1912, Dignity Health - St.
John’s Regional Medical Center is a 265-bed, acute care, nonprofit hospital located in Oxnard, California.
Serving over 85,000 patients annually, the hospital offers a full complement of services including emergency, heart, orthopedic, and cancer care.
Additionally, St.
John’s Regional Medical Center has been recognized as an LGBTQ+ Healthcare Equality High Performer by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation.
It is a Joint Commission-certified Thrombectomy-Capable Stroke Center and was named one of America’s 100 Best Hospitals by Healthgrades in 2026.
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One California Job Summary and Responsibilities As our Chaplain, you will serve as a vital spiritual leader and compassionate caregiver within our hospital community, providing essential spiritual counseling and support to patients, families, and staff.Every day, you will provide direct spiritual, religious, and existential care, offering compassionate presence, support, and appropriate rituals to patients, families, and staff, especially during times of crisis or grief.
You will collaborate with the healthcare team to advocate for spiritual needs and integrate holistic care, ensuring respect for diverse beliefs.
To be successful in this role, you must be a highly compassionate individual, comfortable and skilled in engaging with people who may be emotional, panicked, stressed, or in pain.
You'll need the proven ability to provide empathetic care, adapt to diverse spiritual needs, and communicate effectively within a multidisciplinary team.
Provides pastoral support and counseling to patients/residents, families, personnel and medical staff, taking special note of patients newly admitted, critically ill, dying and those preparing for surgery.
Observation, Feedback. Assesses pastoral / sacramental needs of patients, families and personnel and provides follow-up as needed. Makes referrals for sacramental ministry of Catholic patients for Catholic chaplains or Eucharistic ministers.
Observation, Feedback. Provides prayer and worship opportunities for patients, hospital personnel, medical staff and local church and civic community.
Observation. Responds in an appropriate and timely manner to all referrals for chaplain services and provides documentation in both the patient's medical record and departmental records, including assessment, intervention, pastoral plan and evaluation.
Observation, Documentation, Feedback. Collaborates with members of the interdisciplinary team and medical staff to provide total patient care. Participates in patient care conferences on assigned clinical units as well as other interdisciplinary hospital meetings.
Observation, Minutes of Minutes, Patient Care Documentation. Provides effective pastoral intervention during Code Blue/Code Pink/Code Yellow and other patient crisis. Acts as liaison between family, hospital personnel and medical staff.
Requires a Bachelor's and Master's degree in a relevant field such as Divinity or Theology, along with 4 units of Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE). Candidates must obtain specific chaplain certification (e.g., BCC or APC) within 24 months of hire.
Market context
In California, chaplain openings are often competitive because employers look for both spiritual care experience and readiness to work in clinical settings. For this role, the listed requirements include a high school diploma or GED, current BLS certification, proof of Medical Assistant Program completion, and ongoing quarterly AHA RQI competency after hire. Job requirements and benefits on this platform are AI-summarized from the original job description, helping candidates review details faster; before applying, confirm your certifications are current and match the posted credentials.
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