Spiritual Care Practitioner - Halton Healthcare, Oakville

About this opportunity

Halton Healthcare is seeking a dedicated professional for administration and healthcare support as a Spiritual Care Practitioner. In this role, you will provide person-centred, holistic psychospiritual, emotional, existential, cultural, and religious care to patients, families, caregivers, and staff. Working across diverse religious, spiritual, cultural, and secular worldviews, you will support individuals through serious illness, suffering, loss, life transitions, spiritual or existential distress, dying, and bereavement without imposing personal beliefs, adhering strictly to Halton Healthcare policies and Canadian Association for Spiritual Care standards.

Day-to-day

As a member of the interprofessional team, your clinical duties cover a wide array of supportive responsibilities across Halton Healthcare facilities:

• Clinical care: Completes psychospiritual assessments and provides therapeutic presence, supportive counselling, and individualized psychospiritual, emotional, existential, cultural, and religious interventions for patients, families, and staff; responds to acute distress and refers when needs exceed scope.
• End-of-life and bereavement: Supports patients and families before, during, and after death, including goals-of-care changes, after-death care, bereavement referrals, morgue viewings when requested, non-directive support related to Medical Assistance in Dying, and facilitation of requested spiritual, cultural, religious, or memorial practices.
• Inclusive care: Provides culturally humble and person-centred psychospiritual care across diverse religious, spiritual, cultural, Indigenous, humanist, and secular worldviews; connects patients with clergy, faith leaders, Elders, and community supports on request.
• Collaboration: Participates in rounds, family meetings, ethics discussions, and care planning; consults with physicians, nursing, social work, palliative care, ethics, and other interprofessional teams.
• Staff support: Supports staff experiencing grief, patient deaths, critical incidents, compassion fatigue, and moral distress; facilitates reflective practice and resilience-building conversations.
• Documentation and privacy: Documents psychospiritual assessments, interventions, care plans, and follow-up in the electronic health record; protects confidentiality and maintains professional boundaries.
• Education and quality: Educates staff, learners, and volunteers; contributes to policies, quality improvement initiatives, evidence-informed practice, and service activity reporting.

Requirements

Candidates interested in exploring Halton Healthcare careers must meet or be working toward the following qualifications:

• Master's degree in Divinity, Theology, Spiritual Care, Pastoral or Psychospiritual Studies, or related discipline (or equivalent) preferred
• Completion of two (2) advanced units of Clinical or Supervised Psychospiritual Education (CPE/SPE) or equivalent
• CASC/ACSS membership and Certified Spiritual Care Practitioner designation preferred; candidates progressing toward certification will be considered
• Registered with the College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario (CPRO), or in the process of registering
• Two years of hospital, hospice, palliative, or mental health spiritual care experience preferred; palliative and end-of-life experience strongly preferred
• Knowledge of grief, Medical Assistance in Dying, healthcare ethics, trauma-informed care, and diverse religious and non-religious worldviews
• Excellent listening, communication, and documentation skills; strong self-awareness and reflective practice
• Ability to work independently and within an interprofessional team

Why you'll love it here

Halton Healthcare is an equal opportunity employer committed to integrating diversity, equity, and inclusion throughout our operations, policies, and culture. If you are passionate about healthcare, motivated by a job well done, and committed to excellence, quality, and patient satisfaction, this environment offers meaningful engagement supporting patients and staff alike. Successful applicants will join a collaborative interprofessional network with comprehensive pre-employment medical clearance and immunization compliance programs designed to maintain a safe hospital environment.