Spiritual Care Coordinator - Halton Healthcare, Oakville

AI Summary

This role is for a Spiritual Care Coordinator at Halton Healthcare in Oakville, Ontario. The position provides corporate leadership and clinical spiritual care expertise across three hospital sites. Key duties include planning inclusive, multi-faith spiritual care services and offering direct spiritual support. A Master’s degree and CASC/ACSS certification are top requirements for this vital healthcare role.

About the Opportunity at Halton Healthcare

This pivotal role as Coordinator, Spiritual Care, at Halton Healthcare offers a unique opportunity to provide corporate leadership and operational coordination for spiritual care services across its three hospital sites in Oakville, Milton, and Georgetown. Reporting through the Quality and Patient Relations Program, the incumbent will be instrumental in planning, coordinating, and evaluating inclusive, multi-faith, and belief-sensitive spiritual care services. This involves supporting patients, families, staff, and volunteers, ensuring that whole-person care is delivered with compassion and respect. The Coordinator will be an integrated member of interprofessional teams, assessing spiritual, emotional, religious, existential, and cultural needs, and providing direct clinical support. This commitment to high-quality, ethical, and patient- and family-centred spiritual care practice is central to Halton Healthcare's mission. The role also involves building and sustaining effective relationships with community faith leaders and cultural partners to enhance responsive spiritual and religious care throughout the organization.

Key Responsibilities and Qualifications

The Spiritual Care Coordinator will deliver direct spiritual, emotional, religious, existential, and grief support in a manner that is inclusive, trauma-informed, culturally safe, and respectful of diverse faith traditions and worldviews. This critical clinical care involves completing spiritual care assessments, developing comprehensive plans of care, and documenting interventions in accordance with organizational policies and professional standards. Collaboration with interprofessional teams is essential for complex care planning, palliative and end-of-life care, ethical reflection, and staff resiliency support. Candidates must possess a Master’s degree in theology, divinity, spiritual care, counselling, psychotherapy, or a related graduate-level discipline from an accredited institution. Certification as a Spiritual Care Practitioner with the Canadian Association for Spiritual Care (CASC/ACSS), or demonstrated progress toward certification, is a mandatory requirement. A minimum of two years of relevant clinical spiritual care experience in an acute care or comparable healthcare environment is also required. Preferred qualifications include registration with the College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario (CRPO) and demonstrated leadership or coordination experience in spiritual care or a related healthcare program. The ability to provide inclusive multi-faith spiritual care within a diverse community population, coupled with strong interpersonal and communication skills, is vital for this role.