Holistic Spiritual Care Navigator - Part Time

GLIDE; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 34,000 - 49,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Open door policy

Job summary

GLIDE seeks a Spiritual Care Navigator to provide trauma-informed spiritual care to patients, families, and caregivers facing serious illness and end-of-life transitions. The role includes bedside visits, outreach, and faith-based programs designed to honor diverse beliefs and cultures.

As part of a multidisciplinary team, you will support goals-of-care conversations, advance directives, and coordinated referrals while upholding dignity, peace, and comfort for those in crisis.

Qualifications

• Minimum 2–3 years in faith-based organizing, pastoral care, spiritual counseling, or related field.
• Experience in grief counseling and end-of-life contexts.
• Ability to facilitate group programs, creative arts workshops, and spiritual rituals.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills with patients, families and team members.
• Regulatory compliance requirements familiarity (HIPAA, policies).

Responsibilities

• Provide individualized spiritual care, counseling, prayer, bedside visits, and emotional support to patients, families, and caregivers.
• Respect diverse religious and spiritual beliefs of each person.
• Support end-of-life planning, grief, bereavement and legacy conversations.
• Conduct outreach in churches, hospitals, shelters, and community settings.
• Facilitate referrals to hospice, healthcare, behavioral health, housing, and community resources.
• Coordinate advance healthcare directives and goals-of-care conversations.
• Provide health coaching and support for chronic illness and mental health in collaboration with clinicians.
• Apply trauma-informed care and crisis intervention principles.
• Develop and lead support groups, faith-based education, and creative arts programs.
• Coordinate spiritual rituals and ceremonies respecting individual beliefs.
• Collaborate with care teams to coordinate holistic care.
• Maintain confidential documentation compliant with HIPAA.
• Promote radical inclusion and equity across faith traditions.
• Participate in ongoing spiritual care training.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Skills

Communication skills

Empathy

Group facilitation

Multidisciplinary teamwork

Adaptability

Job description

GLIDE seeks a Spiritual Care Navigator to provide trauma-informed spiritual care to patients, families, and caregivers facing serious illness and end-of-life transitions. The role includes bedside visits, outreach, and faith-based programs designed to honor diverse beliefs and cultures.

As part of a multidisciplinary team, you will support goals-of-care conversations, advance directives, and coordinated referrals while upholding dignity, peace, and comfort for those in crisis.