Spiritual Health Practitioner

Why Fraser Health?:
Are you looking for that job that will allow you to make a positive difference in the lives of others?

The
**Spiritual Health Practitioner**
- **Palliative Care Program** role provides you the opportunity to oversee the provision of comprehensive spiritual health services to residents, patients, families and health care staff within Fraser Health facilities in a manner that is appropriate to belief systems and cultural diversity of our populations.

We are looking for a
**Full Time**
**Spiritual Health Practitioner **to provide support to our Spiritual Care and Patient Experience team at our Central City Tower, located in
**Surrey, BC.**

Embracing all faiths, spiritual belief systems and cultural diversity, spiritual health services will focus on identifying and meeting the individual’s spiritual needs and supporting community spiritual/faith based relationships.

Fraser Health is responsible for the delivery of hospital and community-based health services to over 1.9 million people in 20 diverse communities from Burnaby to Fraser Canyon on the traditional territories of the Coast Salish and Nlaka’pamux Nations. Our team of 43,000 staff, medical staff and volunteers is dedicated to serving our patients, families and communities to deliver on our vision: Better health, best in health care.

Effective October 26, 2021, all new hires to Fraser Health will need to have full COVID 19 vaccination (have received a full series of a World Health Organization “WHO” approved vaccine against infection by SARS-COV-2, or a combination of approved WHO vaccines). Please note this applies to all postings, and individual medical exemptions must be approved by the Provincial Health Officer.

We are proud of the innovation, dedication, professionalism and tenacity of our physicians, employees and volunteers. More than any building or technology, it's our people who make Fraser Health distinct.

Fraser Health values diversity in the work force and strives to maintain a work environment of Respect, Caring & Trust.

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Detailed Overview:
**Supporting the Vision, Values, Purpose and Commitments of Fraser Health including service delivery that is centered around patients/clients/residents and families**:
Responsible for providing and/or facilitating spiritual health services by providing support to volunteers, volunteer coordinators and managers and facilitating linkages with a range of local community faith and spiritual groups; utilizes professional and program standards to provide coordinated, comprehensive spiritual services such as liturgical, psycho-social and spiritual support for patients, residents, staff and their families that embraces all faiths/spiritualities/cultures with the focus on supporting the individual's community based spiritual relationships for an assigned location(s); works in partnership and in collaboration with volunteers, volunteer coordinators/managers and appropriate representatives of local faith and spiritual communities in the recruitment, orientation and continuing education of spiritual health volunteers and in the provision of spiritual health at the assigned location(s).

**Responsibilities**:

- Plans, organizes, coordinates and evaluates spiritual care services for residents, patients, families and staff; provides for and/or arranges for spiritual care services to patients, families and staff on a multi-faith, multicultural basis for an assigned location(s); facilitates crisis interventions for staff, patients, resident and/or families, as needed.
- Evaluates spiritual health services and ensures spiritual health delivery is aligned with Fraser Health (FH) policies, procedures and standards and in accordance with Professional Practice and the Provincial Spiritual Health Framework.
- Implements programs involved with spiritual care services for patients, families, friends and staff; provides information regarding spiritual care for families, staff and the community; liaises with appropriate community faith groups to develop and maintain spiritual care services for an assigned location(s).
- Ensures and respects the individual's freedom of choice and privacy to select and/or request/decline spiritual support; provides formal and informal consultations to staff, physicians and members of the interdisciplinary team in verbal conferences/rounds; supplies chart documentation and notation of spiritual care assessment and care plan.
- Ensures information is distributed to patients/residents/staff or families regarding available religious and/or spiritual care services; liaises with representatives of community religious