Spiritual Care Associate

Spiritual Care Department

Lurie Children’s Hospital Spiritual Care Department is committed to providing exceptional spiritual care for people of all spiritual and religious traditions. To enhance our ability to provide personalized care, we value having Spiritual Care associates from diverse spiritual and religious traditions to support our patients, their loved ones and our staff and to advise regarding workplace accommodations for employees from their tradition.

Essential Job Functions

• Advise and educate Spiritual Care on best practices to support our patients, families and staff from their tradition.
• Provides recommendations aligned with their tradition regarding days of special significance, dietary practices, and resource/facilities/infrastructure needs.
• Leads services, participates in panel discussions, and provides education as requested about their tradition.
• Follows up in a timely fashion on referrals from chaplains with visits for patients, loved ones and staff who affiliate with their tradition.
• Provides appropriate resources, rituals requested by patient, loved ones or staff.
• Communicates with on-call chaplain before and after each visit.
• Participates in spiritual care departmental meetings at least twice a year.
• Models the values of our hospital in all interactions with patients, loved ones, colleagues, and staff and performs job functions with focus on excellence and teamwork to provide the highest quality care and service.
• Shows respect for all spiritual and religious traditions, even those outside of their own specific tradition.
• Works as an employee at the hospital only at the request of chaplains and visits only requested patients in their workplace capacity.
• Other job functions as assigned.

Minimum Requirements

• Education: Master’s degree or higher in field related to their spiritual or religious tradition.
• Certification: One unit of CPE preferred, not required.
• Job Related Experience: Spiritual Care experience in local community, hospital, prison, or other setting.
• Skills/Knowledge: Excellent communication, critical thinking, and interpersonal skills. Demonstrated ability to work as a part of multiple teams. Ability to speak a language(s) in addition to English strongly preferred.

Pay and Benefits

Pay Range: $24.00-$39.24 Hourly
At Lurie Children’s, we are committed to competitive and fair compensation aligned with market rates and internal equity, reflecting individual contributions, experience, and expertise.
The pay range for this job indicates minimum and maximum targets for the position. Ranges are regularly reviewed to stay aligned with market conditions.
In addition to base salary, Lurie Children’s offer a comprehensive rewards package that may include differentials for some hourly employees, leadership incentives for select roles, health and retirement benefits, and wellbeing programs. For more details on other compensation, consult your recruiter or click the following link to learn more about our benefits.

Benefits

• Medical, dental and vision insurance
• Employer paid group term life and disability
• Employer contribution toward Health Savings Account
• Paid Time Off (PTO), Paid Holidays and Paid Parental Leave
• 403(b) with a 5% employer match
• Voluntary Benefits
• Tuition assistance
• Student loan servicing and support
• Adoption benefits
• Backup Childcare and Eldercare
• Employee Assistance Program, and other specialized behavioral health services and resources for employees and family members
• Discount on services at Lurie Children’s facilities
• Discount purchasing program

Equal Employment Opportunity

Lurie Children’s and its affiliates are equal employment opportunity employers. We value diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, marital status, pregnancy, protected veteran status, order of protection status, protected genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.