Spiritual Health Practitioner
Your Opportunity:
We have an exciting opportunity for you to make a difference with the Spiritual Health team. As an integrated member of our Central Zone Spiritual Care team, you support the spiritual and emotional health of patients and families across diverse beliefs, cultural perspectives, and practices. You will support a dynamic interfaith community that embodies AHS’s patient first approach. Reflecting a holistic, compassionate methodology to care, the Spiritual Health Practitioner advances an evidence based spiritual health care approach. The successful candidate will rely on accomplished interpersonal communication, prioritization, and self-awareness skills to liaise with faith leaders, healthcare professionals, coordinate site events and be responsive to the changing needs of a caseload. Additionally, your responsibilities will involve supporting patients and families in illness adjustment, chronic disease care, and end-of-life care. AHS is Canada’s first and largest province-wide, fully integrated health system. Discover a supportive employer, with endless opportunities for professional development and comprehensive benefits, including health and dental to help you thrive. Bordered by the Rocky Mountains on the west and the Saskatchewan border to the east, central Alberta is rich in farmland and natural resources, providing a diversified economy and lots of opportunity to flourish. Its lovely small towns and cities provide a great place to raise your family and become part of a close-knit community.
Description:
As a Clinical Psychospiritual Education (CPE) trained Spiritual Health Practitioner (SHP), you will be equipped with the necessary skills to provide patient-centered spiritual health care: screening, assessment and interventions. As an evidence-based practitioner you will addresses spiritual distress (experiences of loss of meaning and connection in relation to self, others, and what one considers ultimate/transcendent) and promote spiritual well-being (experiences of meaning and connection in relation to self, others, and what one considers ultimate/transcendent). Aligned with the AHS mandate of a patient and family centered approach to care, you will be accountable for providing leadership in the profession for the assigned site(s), consultation, expertise, and direct service delivery in all matters related to spiritual health care in the context of health and care delivered at the assigned site(s). Spiritual Care Professional Practice is to be delivered in alignment with and advancement of AHS provincial professional practice standards, frameworks, and guidelines. With a wide variety of recreational opportunities in all seasons, living and working in central Alberta offers the best of both worlds. It’s beautiful, peaceful and provides a great backdrop for a fulfilling career.
- Acute Care Alberta: N
- Primary Care Alberta: N
- Recovery Alberta: N
- Classification: Spiritual Health Practitioner
- Union: Exempt
- Unit and Program: Northeast Central Zone
- Primary Location: Vermilion Health Centre
- Location Details: As Per Location
- Employee Class: Regular Part Time
- FTE: 0.80
- Posting End Date: 16-MAY-2025
- Date Available: 30-JUN-2025
- Hours per Shift: 7.75
- Length of Shift in weeks: 2
- Shifts per cycle: 8
- Shift Pattern: Days
- Days Off: Saturday/Sunday
- Minimum Salary: $30.00
- Maximum Salary: $51.54
- Vehicle Requirement: Driver's License, Vehicle Required
Master’s in Theology and/or Spirituality/Religion or a clinically related field with confirmation of educational equivalency obtained from the Academic Assessment Committee of the national professional association, Canadian Association for Spiritual Care/Association canadienne de soins spirituels, (CASC/ACSS). 2nd Advanced Level, Clinical Psychospiritual Education (CPE) with commitment toward certification as a spiritual care practitioner, (CASC/ACSS) within three years.
Additional Required Qualifications:
As Required.
Preferred Qualifications:
CASC Certified Spiritual Care Practitioner, certification equivalency or eligibility for certification.
Please note:
All postings close at 23:59 MT of the posting end date indicated.
Security Screening:
A satisfactory criminal record check and/or Vulnerable Sector Search is required prior to your first day of work. Additionally, all employees have an ongoing duty to disclose any charges or convictions that may occur during their employment with AHS.
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