Spiritual Care Professional

Are you drawn to providing compassionate care and supporting individuals through life's most challenging moments? Mount Sinai Hospital is seeking a dedicated and skilled Spiritual Care Professional to join our team. In this role, you'll provide compassionate listening, spiritual guidance, and meaningful support to patients, families, and staff facing illness, loss, and life transitions.

This opportunity is unique in providing Spiritual Care in a clinical setting, as it involves working in our Woman and Infants’ Health program, Oncology, ICU and GIM. Our organization received highest accolades in recent accreditation for interprofessional collaboration and patient centered care. At Mount Sinai Hospital, you will engage with a patient population of pregnant individuals, addressing their various health needs, care options, and social location.

**Is this you?**

You possess deep empathy, an ability to honour diverse belief systems, and a calling to serve others in their time of need. You are a skilled listener, offering a non-judgmental and safe space for individuals to explore their spiritual and emotional needs. You are skilled at facilitating meaning-making for others by inviting people to reflect on their values. You find fulfillment in facilitating connection, providing ritual support, and helping others navigate life's complexities with resilience and hope.

You embrace diversity as an essential component of spiritual care, actively seeking to understand and appreciate the vast spectrum of beliefs, values, and spiritual practices that individuals hold dear. You approach each encounter with an open mind and a willingness to learn, creating a space where all feel welcome and respected.

You have strong boundaries and self-care practices. This role involves being present with others during moments of pain, fear, or uncertainty. To navigate these situations of suffering and loss, you must possess and cultivate emotional resilience. The sensitive nature of this work will require you to maintain confidentiality and professional boundaries.

**About our Spiritual Care Department**

Sinai Health’s Spiritual Care Department provides services at both Hennick Bridgepoint and Mount Sinai Hospital’s. Our team is known for fostering strong support and collaboration. We work closely together, learn from each other's experience, and provide coverage to best meet the needs of our patients. We are proud to be leaders in Spiritual Care education in Ontario. We offer robust opportunities for growth, including support for certification and the registration process, professional conference attendance, and courses related to professional development. Our team benefits from supportive leadership that values staff well-being and continuous learning.

**In this role you will**:

- Provide spiritual care to patients, families, staff and volunteers
- Initiate regular Spiritual Care visits with patients and respond to requests or referrals made by patients, family or staff and leaders of faith communities
- Assess spiritual, emotional and religious needs of patients visited
- When requested and when appropriate, assist patients and families in the process of making challenging moral and ethical decisions based on faith and spiritual beliefs
- Facilitate the grief and bereavement process
- Assist with care after death, when appropriate, i.e., viewing of body, prayer, and provide pertinent information in order for families to make informed choices
- Ensure that patients have the opportunity to contact the faith community of their choice and facilitate the contacts when appropriate or where requested
- Collaborate in the planning and celebrating of sacred rituals with the Spiritual Care team and/or community faith partners
- Perform other duties consistent with the job classification as required
- Job Requirements

**Job Requirements**:
Mandatory
- Completion of a Master's degree program in Theology or Spiritual Care
- 1 year of experience in a related role
- Clinical experience
- Membership with the Canadian Association for Spiritual Care

Preferred
- Certified in Spiritual Care with the Canadian Association for Spiritual Care (CASC)
- Currently registered and in good standing or in process of registering with the College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario (CRPO)

Skills and Knowledge
- Knowledge of various models of spiritual care and their appropriateness to different practice contexts
- Awareness of the process of spiritual development and the provision of care appropriate to patient’s developmental states throughout the care process
- Understanding and commitment to the provision of spiritual care in its many expressions
- Communication/Influence - Interacts credibly with individuals and teams demonstrating effective persuasive skills and builds/maintains relationships through effective consulting, negotiating and facilitating skills
- Planning and Organization - Establishes efficient, realistic strategies and action steps