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Spiritual Care Practitioner

3 months ago


Toronto, Ontario, Canada Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre Full time

We currently have a
Prorated
Regular-Full Time (0.8 FTE) opportunity for a
Spiritual Care Practitioner in the
Spiritual & Religious Care Department
at our
Bayview campus.


Hours of Work:

Weekdays (4 days/week): Days; 8 hrs; As per schedule

Summary of Duties


The Spiritual Care Practitioner is responsible to assess and provide spiritual care and emotional support for patients, families and staff at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre (Bayview, Holland and RCC campuses).

The Spiritual Care Practitioner assumes an active role in the Spiritual Care Team and assigned units while demonstrating a commitment to compassionate, person-centered care within an inter-professional context.

This position reports to the Professional Leader and Manager for acute care Spiritual & Religious Care Department.

  • Provides spiritual care and supportive counseling to support patients and their families, team members and other health care providers.
  • Assesses the spiritual and religious care needs of patients and their significant others and offers care directly and/or makes appropriate referrals to other members of the interprofessional team and/or to community partners.
  • Functions in a multifaith environment to ensure patients and families have access to spiritual/religious and cultural rituals and services as appropriate or requested
  • Assists in the coordination of special bereavement functions such as Memorial Services.
  • Participates in interprofessional team meetings incorporating the patient/family spiritual needs into the overall care plan.
  • Advances current professional expertise and specialized knowledge in spiritual care.

Qualifications/Skills

  • Master's Degree in Divinity or related field preferred
  • Certified as Specialist in Spiritual Care with the Canadian Association for Spiritual Care (CASC), or its USA equivalent preferred
  • 2 Advanced CPE Units preferred
  • Registration with the College of Registered Psychotherapists in Ontario (CRPO) practicing in Spiritual Care preferred.
  • Experience providing spiritual care in a busy healthcare environment.
  • Excellent communication, interpersonal, emotional intelligence, critical thinking and time management skills
  • Compassionate, Personcentered and Family focused care philosophy required
  • Ability to work effectively with a diverse population of patients, families and health care staff.
  • Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively in interprofessional teams.
  • Must be proficient in writing, reading and speaking English
  • Multilingual abilities are an asset
Human Resources
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre


Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre is committed to providing accessible employment practices that are in compliance with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA).

If you require accommodation for disability during any stage of the recruitment process, please indicate this in your cover letter.


Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre is strongly committed to inclusion and diversity within its community and welcomes all applicants including but not limited to: visible minorities, all religions and ethnicities, persons with disabilities, LGBTQ persons, and all others who may contribute to the further diversification of ideas.


Please be advised that in order to be eligible for employment at Sunnybrook, all new hires must have received the full series of a COVID-19 vaccine or combination of COVID-19 vaccines approved by Health Canada (e.g., two doses of a two-dose vaccine series, or one dose of a single-dose vaccine series);
AND have received the final dose of the COVID-19 vaccine at least 14 days ago.

Medical exemptions or any other kind of requested exemption based upon the Hospital's obligations pursuant to the Ontario Human Rights Code will be considered on a case-by-case basis.