Catholic Priest, Per Diem, Chaplain
UMass Memorial Medical CenterWorcester, Massachusetts, United States
Posted October 27, 2025
Contract / Temporary
About the Company
The flagship member of the UMass Memorial Health system, UMass Memorial Medical Center is the trusted academic medical center of central Massachusetts and the clinical partner of the UMass Chen Medical School. With over 800 beds (including bassinets) and 7,500 caregivers, UMass Memorial Medical Center is dedicated to ensuring the health and wellbeing of our communities across Central Massachusetts. From delivering around the clock lifesaving care to persevering through a pandemic, our commitment to our communities never wanes. We use knowledge and innovation to deliver breakthrough medicine. To make life better for those we serve. We stand for quality, compassion, dignity, opportunity, and fairness. And we are relentless in our pursuit of healing. UMass Memorial Medical Center includes three campuses located in Worcester, MA: • Hahnemann Campus • Memorial Campus • University Campus With the latest medical technology and support services, we are the tertiary care referral center for central and western Massachusetts. In addition to being the premier source of academic and clinical excellence in primary care, our care teams feature highly trained specialists who are nationally acclaimed for their expertise and leadership in areas such as: • Cardiovascular care • Neurosciences, including the region’s only Joint Commission accredited comprehensive stroke center • Orthopedics • Hematology/oncology • Liver and kidney transplantation • Children’s services, as part of the region’s only Children’s Medical Center • Women’s services • Pediatric newborn medicine and the region’s only level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit • Trauma/emergency medicine and the region’s only designated level I trauma center • Life Flight, New England’s first hospital-based air ambulance Comprehensive, Award Winning Care in Central Massachusetts
Job Description
The Catholic Priest, Per Diem, Chaplain role at UMass Memorial Health involves providing pastoral and spiritual care to patients, their loved ones, and staff on all campuses of the Medical Center. This position is for a Catholic Priest who will offer a multi-faith presence responsive to the cultural, religious, and spiritual diversity of patients and their loved ones.
Requirements
- Provides Catholic Mass 1 to 2 days per week in Hospital Chapel or on holy days as discussed.
- Assesses patient and family spiritual needs and develops pastoral care plan in response to identified needs.
- Documents pastoral care assessments, visits, and interventions in the patient’s record to contribute to holistic patient centered care.
- Collaborates with the interdisciplinary Palliative Care team in the provision of care for patients and their loved ones living with advanced illness and/or addressing end of life concerns.
- Develops, coordinates, and facilitates public worship/spiritual practices appropriate to diverse setting of the Medical Center.