Spiritual Support Counselor - Full Time
About The Position
The Spiritual Support Counselor provides spiritual and existential care to patients and families, including comprehensive assessments of spiritual and existential strengths, beliefs, practices, purpose, meaning, and experiences facing end of life. As a core member of the Interdisciplinary Care Team, the counselor collaborates on patient-guided plans of care and offers support around meaning, purpose, grief, and existential distress while honoring diverse faiths, spiritual traditions, beliefs, and cultural practices. The role may include facilitating requested rituals, prayer, and spiritual practices; connecting patients with religious or cultural community relationships; supporting staff and volunteers; planning or officiating funerals at family request; and providing spiritual-care education and training. The counselor also documents care in accordance with agency policy, coordinates patient census and visitation schedules according to assigned levels of care, participates in organizational activities and orientation, and attends mandatory in-services.
Requirements
- Demonstrated work experience in interfaith and multicultural environments.
- One year of experience providing spiritual care, preferably in hospice, palliative care, or healthcare settings.
- A degree in divinity, theology, or another related field.
- Completed Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) unit(s).
- Ordination or good standing within one’s own faith community.
- Pastoral training program or 5+ years of pastoral care experience.
Nice To Haves
- Bilingual ability.
Responsibilities
- Complete comprehensive assessments of patients’ spiritual and existential strengths, beliefs, practices, issues of purpose and meaning, and experiences facing end of life.
- Serve as a core member of the Interdisciplinary Care Team and collaboratively develop patient-guided plans of care.
- Provide spiritual support and counseling concerning meaning, purpose, grief, and existential distress while honoring diversity of faiths, spiritual traditions, beliefs, and cultural practices.
- Facilitate rituals, prayer, or spiritual practices as requested by patients or families.
- Facilitate connections to existing or needed religious or cultural relationships in the community.
- Provide spiritual support for staff and volunteers as requested.
- Complete documentation in accordance with agency policy.
- Plan or officiate funerals upon request of the family.
- Attend all mandatory in-services provided by Samaritan.
- Coordinate census and patient visitation schedules according to assigned levels of care.
- Provide in-services on spiritual care to staff, volunteers, and the community.
- Participate in organization activities such as Tree of Life and Memorial Events.
- Participate in staff and volunteer orientation and training.
Benefits
- Qualifying employer under Public Service Student Loan Forgiveness.
- Generous medical, dental, and vision benefit packages.
- Highly competitive salary.
- 403(b) with employer match.
- Generous paid time off.
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Job Type
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