New

Certified Educator Candidate (CEC), Spiritual Care

University of California - Los Angeles Health
United States, California, Los Angeles
Oct 14, 2025
Description As a Certified Educator Candidate, you'll provide spiritual care to patients, families, and staff while completing a multi-year training program to become an ACPE Certified Educator. Working under the guidance of ACPE Certified Educators, you'll gain hands-on experience leading Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) programs and mentoring CPE students. This role offers the opportunity to grow into a fully certified ACPE Certified Educator through supervised teaching, reflection, and professional development. Salary Range: $29.17-56.37/hr Qualifications Graduate level theological degree from CHEA-member accredited school 4 units of ACPE-certified CPE 2 years Spiritual care skills and experience. Faith Group Endorsement Board Certifed Chaplain Preferred (APC, NACC, NAJC, NAVAC) Skill in supervising ACPE students. Skill and ability in organizing, developing, maintaining, evaluating and creating ACPE certified programs. Ability to respond sensitively to persons of various religious, social, cultural, economic, and educational backgrounds so as to respond to persons in a caring compassionate way. Ability to work collegially and under supervision to provide a cohesive and effective spiritual care department and ACPE training program. Skill in encouraging and supporting individuals on a personal, caring basis by creating pastoral relationship emerging from personal or small group settings. Skill in motivating others and stimulating them to carry out an effective inter-faith spiritual care program. Skill in leadership, design, and creativity of religious services. Knowledge of medical practice and ethical issues that arise in relation to the field. Ability to work collegially with and to appreciate community religious leaders and their gifts to spiritual care in the hospital context. Ability to be organized, responsible, and dependable. Openness and interest in learning new skills and abilities in hospital chaplaincy and ACPE Certified Educator training. Bilingual candidate desired