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Spiritual Support Counselor

Hope Hospice
Pleasanton, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 12/10/2025 CLOSED ON 1/11/2026

What are the responsibilities and job description for the Spiritual Support Counselor position at Hope Hospice?

We have been a trusted community resource since 1980. Our reputation has been built on consistency, responsiveness, and quality. As a non-profit, community-led agency, we are able to focus on providing quality care to patients and families when they need it most, rather than being driven by profit or financial demand.

This full-time position offers competitive pay, generous benefits and a supportive work environment.

We are seeking a Spiritual Support Counselor as a member of the transdisciplinary team and provides spiritual services to patients and their families in agreement with the patient/family's desires and belief system.

Schedule

Monday - Friday; 8:30am-5:00pm

Location:

Alameda and Contra Costa Counties

Hope Hospice follows all CDPH vaccine requirements for healthcare personnel.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities include (but are not limited to):

  • Provide spiritual/pastoral services when indicated and appropriate as soon as possible after admission.
  • Complete a chaplain’s spiritual assessment for patients requesting spiritual services.
  • Provide pastoral/spiritual counseling for patient/family in accordance with patient/family on-going wishes, needs, and applicable traditions including bereavement follow up with family as appropriate.
  • Arrange for clergy/spiritual leaders from specific traditions to visit patient/family as needed and appropriate
  • Ability to travel between multiple patient sites on a daily basis

Education/Experience

  • Masters degree in Divinity, Theology or related field from an accredited university
  • 4 units of Clinical Pastoral Education
  • Minimum of one year of experience providing spiritual services, in an acute health care setting, or equivalent experience in a chaplaincy or in pastoral counseling
  • Hospice or home health experience preferred

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations

  • Board Certified Chaplain certification preferred

Pay Range

$35.00 - $43.25 hourly

Hope Hospice is proud to serve our community as an equal employment opportunity employer. Everyone is valued and welcome at Hope Hospice. Our organization is committed to diversity, equity and continues to build a culture of inclusion by recruiting, screening, hiring and retaining any qualified individual without regard to age, race, color, ethnicity, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, disability, marital status, registered domestic partner status, citizenship, physical or mental disability, legally protected medical condition, family care status, military care status, veteran status or any other consideration made unlawful by Federal, state, or local laws.

Salary : $35 - $43

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