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Location: Chicago, IL
Experience: Mid-level
Highest Level of Education: Other Graduate Degree



Job Responsibilities
Forty hours per week visiting patients, assisting with ethical consultations, releasing deceased patient's bodies to the morgue, coordinating quarterly memorial services.
Job Requirements
Bachelor of Arts - Biology/Psychology; Master of Divinity degree, Divinity/Pastoral Care; six units (1 1/2 years) Clinical Pastoral Education.
Uppers
The hours, when the job is a 9-5.
Downers
Being on 24 hour on-call.
Lifestyle
Business dress code - usually have to wear a white lab coat while on the floors; must have a health screening for employment in a hospital.
Compensation
Base salary, starting, $35,000 plus standard benefits.
Advice to Jobseekers
Get as much of your CPE training while you are in graduate school.

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