Spiritual Care Navigator

GLIDE is a nationally recognized center for social justice, dedicated to fighting systemic injustices, creating pathways out of poverty and crisis, and transforming lives. Through its integrated comprehensive services, advocacy initiatives, and inclusive community, GLIDE empowers individuals, families, and children to achieve stability and to thrive. GLIDE is on the forefront of addressing some of society’s most pressing issues, including poverty, housing and homelessness, and racial and social justice. GLIDE’s mission is to create a radically inclusive, just, and loving community mobilized to alleviate suffering and break the cycles of poverty and marginalization

Position Summary:

Provide individualized spiritual care, counseling, prayer, sacred listening, bedside visits, and emotional support to patients, families, justice involved, gender diverse people, and caregivers.  

Respects the diverse religious and spiritual beliefs of each person. 

Support individuals and families through serious illness, palliative care, end-of-life planning, grief, bereavement, and legacy conversations. 

Conduct outreach in churches, hospitals, SROs, shelters, homes, and community settings, including people experiencing homelessness. 

Facilitate referrals to hospice, healthcare, behavioral health, housing, senior services, and community resources. 

Assist individuals with advance healthcare directives, goals-of-care conversations, and end-of-life planning. 

Provide health coaching and support for chronic illness, mental health, and substance use recovery using motivational interviewing, and working with professional clinicians, therapists, case managers, and social workers in various institutions for referrals and contributing to overall service & care planning 

Apply trauma-informed care, crisis intervention, grounding techniques, de-escalation, and Mental Health First Aid principles. 

Develop and facilitate support groups, faith-based education, resilience workshops, and creative arts programs including music, art, poetry, storytelling, journaling, and ritual. 

Administer or coordinate spiritual rituals, blessings, sacraments, memorials, and other faith practices appropriate to individual beliefs. 

Collaborate with interdisciplinary care teams and community partners to coordinate holistic care. 

Maintain accurate, timely, confidential documentation and comply with HIPAA, organizational policies, and ethical standards. 

Promote radical inclusion, cultural humility, equity, and respect for diverse faith traditions and identities. 

Participate in ongoing training in spiritual care, palliative care, motivational interviewing, trauma-informed care, and related best practices. 

Perform other duties as assigned. 

GLIDE’s buildings are located in the Tenderloin neighborhood.  GLIDE maintains an "open door" policy to the community and its clients, who frequently enter and leave the building.