Spiritual Care Counselor

💙 Join Our Team as a Spiritual Care Counselor

Are you called to make a meaningful difference in the lives of patients and families facing serious illness?  Big Bend Hospice is seeking a compassionate, experienced, and spiritually groundedSpiritual Care Counselor to provide comfort, support, and guidance to patients and their loved ones during one of life’s most important journeys.

This is an opportunity to bring your experience, compassion, and understanding of spiritual care into a role where your presence can providehope, meaning, peace, and connection when it matters most. 

🌿 About the Role

As aSpiritual Care Counselor, you’ll be an integral member of our interdisciplinary hospice team, providing individualized spiritual assessment, counseling, and support topatients, families, caregivers, and staff.

You’ll walk alongside individuals as they explore questions ofmeaning, hope, faith, purpose, and peace, always honoring each person’s unique spiritual journey. This role requires the ability to provide compassionate spiritual care to individuals fromdiverse religious, spiritual, cultural, and personal belief systems—including those who may not identify with a particular faith tradition. 

✨ Key Responsibilities

• 🌿 Conduct comprehensivespiritual assessments and contribute to individualized plans of care based on each patient and family’s needs, beliefs, and preferences.

• 💙 Provide ongoing spiritual counseling, emotional support, and compassionate presence to patients and families throughout the hospice journey.

• 🙏 Coordinate or providesacramental ministry, rituals, prayer, and faith-specific services as requested by patients and families.

• 👥 Participate in interdisciplinary team meetings and collaborate with nurses, social workers, physicians, hospice aides, and other members of the care team.

• 🤝 Provide spiritual care consultation, education, and guidance to hospice staff and volunteers.

• 🏡 Build and maintain meaningful relationships withlocal faith communities and community partners, serving as an ambassador for hospice services.

• 🕊️ Officiate or assist withfunerals, memorial services, remembrance ceremonies, and other services as requested.

• 📝 Complete timely and accurate documentation while maintaining organizational and regulatory compliance.

• 📞 Participate in theevening and weekend on-call rotation to ensure spiritual support is available when patients and families need it.

Qualifications

🎯 Qualifications

✅ Required

• 🎓Master of Divinity (M.Div.) or equivalent graduate theological degree from an accredited seminary or theological school.

• 🌿 Minimum ofone unit of Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE).

• 🙏Three or more years of pastoral ministry and/or hospice chaplain experience.

• 🚗 ValidFlorida Driver’s License.

• 💬 Strong verbal and written communication skills.

• 🤝 Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to build meaningful, respectful relationships with patients, families, colleagues, and community partners.

• 📋 Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage responsibilities independently in a community-based care environment.

⭐ Preferred

• 🌿Four units of Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE).

• 🏥 Previoushospice or hospital chaplaincy experience.

• 🙏Denominational or faith community endorsement.

💙 Why Big Bend Hospice?

AtBig Bend Hospice, we believe compassionate care extends far beyond physical needs. Our Spiritual Care Counselors play a vital role in helping patients and families findmeaning, dignity, comfort, hope, and connection throughout the end-of-life journey.

You’ll work alongside a dedicated interdisciplinary team that understands the importance of caring for thewhole person—mind, body, and spirit. Together, we support patients and families with compassion while honoring their individual beliefs, values, traditions, and wishes.

For more than40 years, Big Bend Hospice has been privileged to walk alongside families throughout our community. As a Spiritual Care Counselor, you’ll have the opportunity to bring your presence, experience, and compassion to a mission centered onexcellence, empathy, dignity, and service. 🕊️

🌟 Apply Today

If you feel called to provide spiritual support during some of life’s most sacred and meaningful moments, we invite you to bring your gifts and experience toBig Bend Hospice. 

Join a team where your presence matters, your compassion has purpose, and the care you provide can leave a lasting impact on patients and families. 

Apply today and become part of the Big Bend Hospice family.

Big Bend Hospice is an Equal Opportunity Employer.