System Vice President of Mission and Ethics

It's more than a career, it's a calling.

MO-SSM Health Mission Hill

Worker Type:

Regular

Job Highlights:

Named 150 Top Places to Work in Healthcare 2025 - Becker's Healthcare

Named One of the World’s Happiest Workplace 2025 – WorkL

Named One of America's Best In-State Employers 2025 - Forbes

Named One of America's Greatest Workplaces for Women 2025 – Newsweek

Named One of America’s Greatest Workplaces for Culture, Belonging & Community 2026 – Newsweek

SSM Health is a Catholic, not-for-profit health system serving the comprehensive health needs of communities across the Midwest through a robust and fully integrated health care delivery system. The organization’s 40,000 team members and more than 13,900+ providers are committed to providing exceptional health care services and revealing God’s healing presence to everyone they serve.
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With care delivery sites in Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Wisconsin, SSM Health includes 23 hospitals, more than 300 physician offices and other outpatient and virtual care services, 12 post-acute facilities, comprehensive home care and hospice services, a pharmacy benefit company, a health insurance company and an accountable care organization. It is one of the largest employers in every community it serves.

This position will be based at our corporate campus, Mission Hill, in St. Louis, MO and is NOT remote work eligible. This role will require relocation upon acceptance of the position.

To request additional information, confidentially submit your interest, or nominate a fellow colleague, please contact:

Angela Jones

Executive Talent Partner

Angela.Jones1@ssmhealth.com

Job Summary:

Develops short- and long-term mission and ethics goals and plans ensuring alignment with broader organization priorities. Utilizes metrics and organization vision to lead and direct mission and ethics activities.

Job Responsibilities and Requirements:

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Serves as a member of the leadership team providing strategic direction on mission and ethics related issues.  Works effectively as a team member in a dynamic executive environment in a matrix organization and promotes teamwork within and across the organization by maintaining positive relationships and utilizing effective problem-solving skills.
• Demonstrates and imparts the mission, philosophy, values and vision of the organization in daily activities and into operational functions, processes and environment.
• Provides project direction, leadership and communication.  Manages workflow within department and fields client requests.  Contributes to the financial performance of the organization.
• Develops and implements programs to cultivate understanding of the mission, vision, values and core commitments of the organization.  Integrates mission and vision across organization and community health and benefit activities.
• Collaborates with system leaders to offer a mission/ethics perspective on major organizational issues, efforts and initiatives.
• Identifies clinical and organizational issues of importance to  organization's mission and values and develops responses, positions, policies, strategies, and educational initiatives.
• Ensures existence of ethics committees and provides support in accordance with system best practices and quality expectations.  Serves as a resource for ethics committees.
• Ensures appropriate staffing levels are maintained.  Guides and develops staff and oversees special projects.  Leads the development of pastoral care services in response to changing health care delivery trends.
• Maintains knowledge on developments in health care, theology and ethics. Regularly informs and updates staff on organizational and industry issues.  Maintains relationships with external constituents in the fields of health care ethics, formation and theology.
• Contributes to mission and ethics field through research, writing and presentation for the benefit of the overall health ministry.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

EDUCATION

• Master's degree in Moral Theology, Bioethics, or related field required, Doctorate preferred

EXPERIENCE

• Ten years' experience, with five years' in leadership

REQUIRED PROFESSIONAL LICENSE AND/OR CERTIFICATIONS 

• Health Care Ethics Consultation Certification preferred

Department:

8791010033 System Mission Values

Work Shift:

Day Shift (United States of America)

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40

Benefits:

SSM Health values our exceptional employees by offering a comprehensive benefits package to fit their needs.

• Paid Parental Leave: we offer eligible team members one week of paid parental leave for newborns or newly adopted children (pro-rated based on FTE). 

• Flexible Payment Options: our voluntary benefit offered through DailyPay offers eligible hourly team members instant access to their earned, unpaid base pay (fees may apply) before payday.

• Upfront Tuition Coverage: we provide upfront tuition coverage through FlexPath Funded for eligible team members. 

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SSM Health is an equal opportunity employer. SSM Health does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity,pregnancy, veteran status,or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.Click here to learn more.