Hospital Chaplain

Job Description

<p>The <b>Spiritual Care Coordinator</b> will be responsible for coordinating and facilitating the pastoral/spiritual care services in the Prince County Hospital. This person will be an integral part of the provincial health care system. The coordinator will be responsible for ensuring that spiritual services are available to patients, families and staff, including physicians.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><b>Duties will include:</b></p><ul><li>Demonstrates an understanding and acceptance of Health PEI’s mission, vision, goals and objectives by incorporating them in the delivery of spiritual care services.</li><li>Leads the development and planning for the delivery of spiritual care services for PCH.</li><li>Directs, oversees and evaluates the provision of spiritual care within the hospital.</li><li>Develops, implements, monitors, evaluates and ensures compliance with Spiritual Care standards, policies and procedures.</li><li>Clinically assesses, plans, implements and evaluates patient’s spiritual and religious needs as well as their families/partners in care’s spiritual care and counselling.</li><li>Make patient rounds within the hospital and ambulatory areas.</li><li>Supports department staff, volunteers and community pastoral care providers to provide effective spiritual care.</li><li>Facilitates interactions between community pastoral care providers and hospital staff as required.</li><li>Collaborates and coordinates with PCH Telecommunications and Community Religious Leaders to ensure timely access to after-hours spiritual care in crisis.</li><li>Contact patient’s community spiritual/religious provider to inform them of requests for their spiritual/pastoral support.</li><li>Provides support and assistance to patients and staff to deal with life crisis by being available to them during high stress through formal and informal interventions (i.e. CISM/defusing/debriefing).</li><li>Provides grief and trauma support to patients and staff through interventions such as therapeutic, spiritual care, grief counselling and memorial services as required.</li><li>Coordinates with Community Spiritual Leaders to provide spiritual care to adverse, educational and cultural clients.</li><li>Maintains and strengthens the link between the Hospital and Community Religious organizations throughout the province.</li><li>Remain current in knowledge of the provision of care for the Spiritual Care Department.</li><li>Prepare briefing notes on provided services as directed.</li></ul><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><b>Minimum Qualifications:</b></p><ul><li>The successful applicant must be a certified <b>Spiritual Care Clinician by the Canadian Association of Pastoral Education or have a minimum of two advanced units of Clinical Pastoral Education</b> and be in the process of becoming certified.</li><li>Formal theological education, preferably confirmed by an academic degree at the Masters level from a recognized school of theology is required.</li><li>The successful candidate must be ordained or endorsed or approved by an ecclesiastical authority.</li><li>The successful candidate must accept the ecumenical/interfaith nature of public hospital spiritual care.</li><li>Considerable experience in hospital spiritual care is preferred (at least 3 years)</li><li>The successful applicant must have a good previous work and attendance record.</li></ul><p><b>Other Qualifications:</b></p><ul><li>Must have excellent written and verbal communication skills.</li><li>Must have evidence of a commitment to continual professional development.</li><li>Demonstrated ability to work independently within professional expertise and apply sound clinical decision making.</li><li>Demonstrated ability to work cooperatively and collaboratively in an interdisciplinary team environment.</li></ul><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><b>Please ensure the application clearly demonstrates how you meet the noted qualifications as applicants will be screened based on the information provided. The successful candidate will be the only individual receiving written notification of competition results. The "Notification of Successful Candidates" list posted on the Employment Opportunity board will serve to inform all other applicants of competition results.</b></p><p><br></p><p><b>Please Note: Preference will be given to Members of the UPSE Health Bargaining Unit in accordance with Article 30.01 of the Collective Agreement.</b></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><b>Salary Range: </b>$37.34 - $46.70 per hour (Level 18 – UPSE Health)</p><p><b>Bi-Weekly Hours: </b>75.0 hours bi-weekly / Days / Monday to Friday / Standby, May Be</p><p> Required to Work Evenings & Weekends.</p><p><b>Posting ID: 170675-1025PCPI</b></p><p><b>Closing Date: </b> Wednesday October 22, 2025 at 4:00pm</p>