Administrative Director Spiritual Care

About the role

The Administrative Director of Spiritual Care at Stony Brook Medicine is a key member of the team responsible for the strategic, operational, and administrative leadership of Spiritual Care services. This role ensures the delivery of timely, compassionate, culturally sensitive, and patient- and family-centered spiritual support aligned with the hospital’s mission, ICARE values, and strategic goals.

Responsibilities

• Provide Administrative oversight of Spiritual Care and Bereavement Services
• Develop, plan, and implement policies, procedures, for spiritual care and bereavement programs
• Oversee departmental budget, staffing, and resource allocation
• Ensure timely response to spiritual care consults and requests across settings
• Establish workflows to support efficient access to services, including crisis response and end-of-life care
• Maintain monitoring program performance metrics
• Identify and implement opportunities to improve access, responsiveness, and patient/family experience
• Recruit, onboard, develop, supervise, and evaluate staff, including chaplains and volunteers
• Align spiritual care and bereavement services with hospital strategic initiatives, patient experience priorities, and quality goals
• Collaborate with clinical leaders, nursing, social work, palliative care, and patient experience teams to integrate spiritual and bereavement support into care plans
• Participate in hospital committees (e.g., Ethics, Patient Experience, Schwartz Rounds)
• Foster strong relationships across departments to ensure a coordinated, team-based approach
• Partner with community organizations and faith-based groups as appropriate
• Ensure documentation of spiritual care and bereavement services meets regulatory and accreditation standards
• Maintain compliance with organizational policies and procedures
• Promote awareness of spiritual care and bereavement services among clinical teams, employee orientation, nursing education and other events
• Support staff well-being initiatives and resilience programs in collaboration with organizational leadership
• Encourage ongoing professional development for team members
• Oversee spiritual care programming, including interfaith services, rituals, and supportive counseling services
• Ensure services are inclusive and responsive to diverse cultural and spiritual needs

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Healthcare Administration, Psychology, Theology, Social Work, Public Health, or related field
• Minimum of 3 years of leadership experience in healthcare, patient experience, community program settings or related services
• Demonstrated experience leading multidisciplinary teams in healthcare/community settings
• Demonstrated experience developing and implementing support programs to meet needs of patients/community
• Excellent communication skills, leadership, and interpersonal skills
• Ability to work effectively across diverse populations and cultural backgrounds, implement culturally sensitive care
• Community Program Outreach, Spiritual Care or Bereavement Experience
• Strong organizational skills
• Compassionate, Empathetic, Professional Crisis Intervention Experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Masters Degree in healthcare administration, spiritual care, bereavement, counseling
• Pastoral Care certification
• 4 units Clinical Pastoral Education training
• ADEC Association for Death Education and Counseling

Special Notes

Resume/CV should be included with the online application. Posting Overview: This position will remain posted until filled or for a maximum of 90 days. An initial review of all applicants will occur two weeks from the posting date. Candidates are advised on the application that for full consideration, applications must be received before the initial review date (which is within two weeks of the posting date). If within the initial review no candidate was selected to fill the position posted, additional applications will be considered for the posted position; however, the posting will close once a finalist is identified, and at minimal, two weeks after the initial posting date. Please note, that if no candidate were identified and hired within 90 days from initial posting, the posting would close for review, and possibly reposted at a later date.