Psycho−Spiritual Practitioner/Chaplain

As a member of the inter-professional team, Psycho-Spiritual Practitioners (also known as Chaplains) provide psycho-spiritual care to patients, families and staff. Psycho-spiritual care encompasses trauma-informed assessments, spiritually-focused counseling, grief and bereavement support, rituals, and interventions to support holistic care planning. This may occasionally include the controlled act of psychotherapy for specific patient populations. Psycho-Spiritual Practitioners also support the psychological well-being of frontline staff through resilience support, debriefing and psycho-spiritual education. All Psycho-Spiritual Practitioners are involved in student education, professional development activities, program quality-improvement initiatives, continuous learning and networking with community spiritual care resources. Psycho-Spiritual Practitioners work across all sites of HHS and are expected to have access to their own transportation.