Chaplain Care
Resume:
Carolyn Legg
** ******** *****, ******, ** *****
*******@*****.***
Professional, experienced Chaplain with four years units Clinical Pastoral Education and twelve years’ experience in pastoral care. I am ordained clergy and I consider myself a member of the interdisciplinary team focusing on the spiritual needs of patients, families, caregivers, staff, and volunteers. I provide pastoral care intervention, counseling, and bereavement support. I determine what is appropriate with a spiritual assessment observing with sensitivity to a variety of values, beliefs, and faith-based orientations. I seek excellence in pastoral care with authentic demeanor, compassion, and skill in dealing with the spiritual dynamics of illness, loss, and death. I provide memorial services, religious services, funerals, and bereavement counseling, individually and in groups. I offer in-services for spiritual care to staff. I contribute to the team and look for opportunities to continue professional education to enhance my service.
Experience
Ordained clergy in the Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut
Four years of Clinical Pastoral Care (four units) studied under Association for Clinical Pastoral Education supervisors.
Twelve years of pastoral care experience; five years in a hospital setting and eight years as a hospice chaplain in inpatient, outpatient, and community-based settings.
Experienced in hospital care, palliative care. pediatrics, ICU and SCU, medical, surgical, cardiac, maternity and delivery, emergency departments and psychiatric departments.
Provide all aspects of care including spiritual assessment and the provision of pastoral care, visitation and counseling, and response to referrals. Compassionate ministerial care to persons in crisis, with life-threatening illness, near the end-of-life, and at the time of death to their families and friends. Continue Bereavement Services individually and to groups.
Eight years’ experience as a hospice chaplain to patients from 6 months old to 104 years old.
Contributing member of an interdisciplinary team; working with other chaplains, community clergy to provide continuity for palliative care of the patient, family, and friends.
Presentations to hospice staff and volunteers regarding the spiritual dynamics of illness, loss, and death. Emotional and spiritual care to hospital and hospice staff.
Commitment to professional growth and development according to the standards of Clinical Pastoral Education.
Education:
Fairfield University; BA in Psychology 1979
University of New Haven; Executive MBA 1999
Four years CPE at accredited APC facilities 2005
Hartford Seminary; Theology and Ethics 2019
The Rev. Carolyn Legg
14 Topstone Drive, Unit C
Bethel, Connecticut 06801
*******@*****.***
October 19, 2022
To whom it may concern:
I am applying for the position of Chaplain. I have heard so much about Vitas and I have researched your organization and the position. My experience meets your requirements. I have both hospice and hospital experience and I appreciate their difference and their similarities.
I am people oriented and that is one of the reasons, among many that I pursued the profession of chaplain and clergy. I like working in teams because there is not I in team. Each participant offers their expertise to the compassionate care of the patient and family.
I appreciate that the organization focusing on growth and education. I have read many of the articles that I have found on the internet. Thank you for those; they have proved beneficial.
I look forward to speaking with you in person to further explore the possibilities.
Sincerely,
The Rev. Carolyn Legg
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