Spiritual Support Counselor - Full Time
About The Position
Samaritan is hiring a full-time Spiritual Support Counselor to provide spiritual and existential support to patients, families, staff, and volunteers. The counselor completes comprehensive assessments of patients’ spiritual and existential strengths, beliefs, practices, concerns about purpose and meaning, and experiences facing end of life. As a core member of the Interdisciplinary Care Team, the counselor works collaboratively to develop patient-guided plans of care. The role provides counseling on meaning, purpose, grief, and existential distress while honoring diverse faiths, spiritual traditions, beliefs, and cultural practices. It may include facilitating requested rituals, prayer, or other spiritual practices; connecting people with religious or cultural relationships in the community; officiating funerals upon family request; and providing spiritual-care education and training. The counselor also documents care according to agency policy, coordinates patient visits according to assigned levels of care, attends mandatory in-services, and participates in organizational activities and staff and volunteer orientation. Samaritan is a locally based, not-for-profit provider of home-based primary care, palliative care, hospice care, grief support, education, social connections, and advocacy, serving South Jersey since 1980.
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 the candidate’s own faith community.
- Pastoral training program or five or more years of pastoral-care experience.
Nice To Haves
- Bilingual ability.
- Experience providing spiritual care in hospice, palliative care, or healthcare settings is preferred.
Responsibilities
- Complete comprehensive assessments of patients’ spiritual and existential strengths, beliefs, practices, concerns about 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 on meaning, purpose, grief, and existential distress while honoring diverse 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 spiritual-care in-services to staff, volunteers, and the community.
- Participate in organizational 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.
- Highly competitive salary.
- 403(b) plan with employer match.
- Generous paid time off.
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Job Type
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