Spiritual Care Practitioner

Job Description

The Spiritual Care Practitioner provides person-centred, holistic psychospiritual, emotional, existential, cultural, and religious care to patients, families, caregivers, and staff. As a member of the interprofessional team, the practitioner supports people through serious illness, suffering, loss, life transitions, spiritual or existential distress, dying, and bereavement across diverse religious, spiritual, cultural, and secular worldviews, without imposing personal beliefs. Practice follows Halton Healthcare policies, applicable legislation, and Canadian Association for Spiritual Care (CASC/ACSS) standards.

Key Responsibilities

• 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

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Divinity, Theology, Spiritual Care, Pastoral or Psychospiritual Studies, or related discipline (or equivalent) preferred

• Completion 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

Additional Information

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Hours: Monday to Friday, 7.5 hour day shifts; 0800-1600 (Hours are subject to change based on operational needs) Tri-site coverage required.

Salary:  $54.219 to $67.800 per hour

Date Posted:  November 10, 2026

Internal application deadline:  November 17, 2026

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Halton Healthcare is an equal opportunity employer who is committed to integrating diversity, equity and inclusion throughout our operations, policies and culture. If you are passionate about what you do, motivated by a job well done, and as committed to excellence, quality and patient satisfaction as we are, we'd like to hear from you. Please attach your current resume directly to this posting.

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