Rabbi Careers

Overview

This position includes leadership of Caron’s historic Chapel Service – oversees clinical spiritual care practices across the organization, integrating spiritual care staff in multidisciplinary treatment and overseeing regional spiritual care offerings. Externally, a subject matter expert who represents spirituality as a “core purpose,” this person also cultivates key development and referral relationships and helps to position Caron as a leader in addiction spiritual care training and supervision.

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

1) Constituent of Corporate Leadership representing Spiritual Care

a) Corporate Engagement — Sets and/or oversees corporate and regional standards and benchmarks for spiritual care including individual consultation, lectures, group services, documentation, training, and clinical incentives for certifications or other qualifications. Drafts and administers Spiritual Care budgets for PA and FL (or other contexts), coordinating with other departments (including Training, Alumni, Development, and Clinical).

b) Development responsibilities related to Spiritual Care: (i) administer the “Father Bill Chapel Fund” as a tool for extending client engagement and enhancing Caron’s reputation; (ii) work with Development staff to cultivate small and large gifts for the Chapel Fund, the Ramonas Endowment Fund, and future giving targeted towards spirituality, music, and the arts.

c) Bereavement — Where appropriate, make and document (in SalesForce) condolence contacts to families who have lost alumni that were primarily recipients of care in Pennsylvania, coordinating with Caron Florida similarly.

2) Departmental Leadership

a) Conduct department oversight (including individual and group supervision), supporting teams in FL and PA as they shape content and schedule of lectures, special events, procedures, etc.

b) Sustain and evolve Caron’s program of Clinical Pastoral Education, or CPE, offering training and credentialing of addiction spiritual care professionals in parallel with Caron’s other internship offerings.

c) Coordinate and innovate as needed to meet ongoing cultural and spiritual diversity needs of our stakeholder populations (e.g. Hindu, Muslim, LGBTQIA+, et al.).

3) Spiritual Care Services

a) Contribute as a provider of Spiritual Care in Pennsylvania, supplementing as “float” and/or taking assigned caseloads to assure the demands of individual consultations, lectures, and other clinical presence are met.

b) Coordinates and provides key content for Caron’s evolving retreat programming.

4) Chapel Presiding and Regional Oversight of Analogous Offerings

a) Presides at and coordinates the Pennsylvania Sunday Chapel service in all aspects, including recruitment and scheduling of any assistants or substitute providers, thus serving as Caron’s spiritual leader and visible representative of the organizational priority on the discipline of Spiritual Care.

b) Support the evolution of Spiritual Fridays and/or other collective offerings in the Florida setting, attending to the particulars of the local treatment culture while being faithful to Caron’s corporate commitment to Spirituality as a core value and domain.

c) Oversee Chapel Music, the Musicians’ Specialty Group, music technology, and the integration of music in clinical programming.

5) This job description reflects management’s assignment of essential functions; it does not prescribe or restrict the duties or tasks that may be required or assigned.