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Job Field: Government Jobs
Location: Dallas, TX
Salary: $72,733.00 - $94,551.00 / Per Year
Job Type: Full Time - Excepted Service Permanent
Phone: (757)728-7069

JOB SUMMARY:

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Department of Veterans Affairs Core Values   I ntegrity, C ommitment, A dvocacy, R espect, E xcellence = I CARE

The Department of Veterans Affairs provides exceptional health care for our Nation's Veterans

This is a permanent full time position for a Staff Chaplain at the VA North Texas Health Care System in Dallas, TX.  This is open to applicants from all faith groups that have officially designated an ecclesiastical endorsing official for VA Chaplaincy.  The list of endorsing organizations is on line at: www.va.gov/chaplain.  Look under "Employment Information."   If your faith group is not listed there it will have to designate an endorsing official before it can endorse you.   For further information contact John Batten at 757-728-7062.

 

 For information about the VA North Texas Health Care System see the following web site:  http://www.northtexas.va.gov/  

 

The Chaplain has full responsibility for providing a complete religious ministry to veteran patients. The Chaplain assesses religious, spiritual, moral, and ethical problems of patients and plans and provides appropriate ministration, including individual in-depth pastoral ministry. The Chaplain, as appropriate, provides extensive and intensive pastoral counseling of individual patients. The Chaplain also provides counsel and pastoral support to relatives of patients in difficult and trying situations to alleviate their anxieties, to win effective cooperation of these relatives with the treatment regimen of the medical center, and to help them deal with grief. The Chaplain responds to emergencies or crises when pastoral care is appropriate.

 

KEY REQUIREMENTS:

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Must be a US Citizen

You will be required to serve a probationary period of 1 year

You may be subject to random urinalysis testing