Coordinator Spiritual Care

Halton Healthcare is a leading Ontario hospital system serving the communities of Oakville, Milton, and Halton Hills through Oakville Trafalgar Memorial Hospital, Milton District Hospital, and Georgetown Hospital. With a shared purpose “To Care,” Halton Healthcare is committed to delivering exemplary patient experiences, always, through compassionate, high‑quality, and integrated care. The organization is recognized for its strong focus on patient safety, innovation, and continuous improvement, and fosters a collaborative and inclusive workplace where people are supported to make a meaningful impact.

Reporting through the leadership of the Quality and Patient Relations Program, the Coordinator, Spiritual Care provides corporate leadership, operational coordination and clinical spiritual care expertise across Halton Healthcare’s three hospital sites. The role is responsible for planning, coordinating and evaluating inclusive, multi-faith and belief-sensitive spiritual care services for patients, families, staff and volunteers. As an integrated member of interprofessional teams, the Coordinator supports whole-person care by assessing spiritual, emotional, religious, existential and cultural needs; providing direct clinical support; facilitating access to faith, cultural and community resources; and advancing high-quality, ethical and patient- and family-centred spiritual care practice

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide leadership and day-to-day coordination for Corporate Spiritual Care Services across Oakville, Milton and Georgetown sites, including service planning, workload coordination, quality monitoring and issue resolution.
• Deliver direct spiritual, emotional, religious, existential and grief support to patients, families, staff and volunteers in a manner that is inclusive, trauma-informed, culturally safe and respectful of diverse faith traditions, beliefs and worldviews.
• Complete spiritual care assessments, develop plans of care, respond to referrals and document care in accordance with organizational policy, privacy requirements, professional standards and scope of practice.
• Collaborate with interprofessional teams to support complex care planning, palliative and end-of-life care, ethical reflection, serious illness conversations, bereavement support and staff resiliency needs.
• Build and sustain effective relationships with community faith leaders, cultural partners, volunteers and internal stakeholders to support responsive spiritual and religious care across the organization.
• Support recruitment, orientation, supervision and ongoing development of spiritual care staff, learners and volunteers, as applicable.
• Promote evidence-informed practice, continuous quality improvement, safe documentation, professional ethics, confidentiality and alignment with Halton Healthcare’s mission, vision, values and patient safety culture.

• Master’s degree in theology, divinity, spiritual care, counselling, psychotherapy or a related graduate-level discipline from an accredited institution.
• Certification as a Spiritual Care Practitioner with the Canadian Association for Spiritual Care/Association canadienne de soins spirituels (CASC/ACSS), or demonstrated progress toward certification, is required.
• Registration with the College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario (CRPO), or eligibility and active progress toward registration where required by scope of practice, is preferred.

• Endorsement by a faith community or demonstrated connection to a recognized spiritual, religious or cultural community is preferred.
• Minimum of two years of relevant clinical spiritual care experience in an acute care, hospital, hospice, long-term care or comparable healthcare environment.
• Demonstrated leadership, coordination or supervisory experience in spiritual care, volunteer services, clinical education or a related healthcare program is preferred.

• Advanced knowledge of spiritual care assessment, grief and bereavement support, end-of-life care, crisis intervention, ethical practice, therapeutic use of self and culturally responsive care.
• Demonstrated ability to provide inclusive multi-faith, interfaith and non-religious spiritual care within a diverse patient, family, staff and community population.
• Strong interpersonal, facilitation, consultation, conflict resolution and relationship-building skills, with the ability to work effectively with interprofessional teams and external community partners.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including accurate, timely and professional clinical documentation.
• Demonstrated emotional maturity, self-awareness, ethical judgment, professional boundaries and ability to respond calmly and compassionately in emotionally complex situations.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively, prioritize competing demands, travel between sites as required and support service needs across a multi-site organization.
• Proficiency with standard office and clinical documentation systems, and commitment to ongoing professional development, quality improvement and continuing education.
• Satisfactory employment and attendance record required.

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

Salary:  $54.219 to $67.80 per hour

Date Posted:  June 23, 2026

Internal application deadline:  June 30, 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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