Director of Harborview Spiritual Care

Harborview Spiritual Care has an outstanding opportunity for a Director of Spiritual Care.

WORK SCHEDULE

• Full-Time / 40 Hours Per Week

• Day Shifts

POSITION HIGHLIGHTS

• Provide strategic, operational, and clinical leadership for Harborview's Spiritual Care Department, overseeing a team of more than 25 staff, volunteers, and Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) interns.

• The position ensures the delivery of high-quality, culturally responsive spiritual care for patients, families, and staff through a 24/7 onsite program that supports holistic care across the organization.

• Responsibilities include departmental leadership, budgeting, staffing, performance management, and program development, as well as providing support to staff during critical incidents, grief, and memorial events.

• As an ACPE Certified Educator, the Director also leads the department's accredited CPE program, overseeing student recruitment, curriculum, instruction, evaluation, and continuous program improvement.

• This position requires balancing concurrent responsibilities for department leadership, clinical education, and organizational staff support while ensuring continuous 24/7 spiritual care coverage.

• The Director manages complex operational, personnel, and customer service issues, often responding to urgent situations with little notice. Success requires strong leadership, communication, teaching, decision-making, change management, and organizational skills, along with the ability to prioritize competing demands and adapt quickly in a dynamic healthcare environment.

PRIMARY JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

• Oversee department administration: responsible for departmental policies and procedures, staffing, fiscal management and organizational development.

• Direct all operations of the department and is responsible for the quality of spiritual care provided.

• Participate in hospital policy setting and decision making and takes part in appropriate hospital committees, e.g., HMC Ethics Committee, department leadership meetings.

• Provide and coordinate spiritual care at Harborview Medical Center with patients, families and staff of diverse traditions and personal practices, collaborating with the Associate Director for Well-Being and Support.

• Arranges for spiritual care service 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and serve as spiritual care specialist for hospital.

• Provide education opportunities in spiritual care for CPE students, department volunteers, staff and on-call spiritual care providers, and the wider religious/ spiritual community.

• Serve as a liaison to spiritual/religious and community organizations concerning the work of the department.

REQUIREMENTS

• Undergraduate and graduate degree appropriate to leadership of spiritual care in a public hospital and academic medical center.

• Endorsement by faith or spiritual community. Minimum of three years full-time spiritual care leadership experience.

• Minimum of five years’ experience as Certified Educator, certified by the Association for Clinical Pastoral Education (ACPE)

Compensation, Benefits and Position Details

Pay Range Minimum:

$110,004.00 annual

Pay Range Maximum:

$159,996.00 annual

Other Compensation:

-

Benefits:

For information about benefits for this position, visit https://www.washington.edu/jobs/benefits-for-uw-staff/

Shift:

First Shift (United States of America)

Temporary or Regular?

This is a regular position

FTE (Full-Time Equivalent):

100.00%

Union/Bargaining Unit:

Not Applicable