Credentialing
New Zealand Healthcare Chaplain's Association (NZHCA) offers credentialling through Spiritual Care Australia where practitioners are assessed against the Spiritual Care Australia Capabilities Framework. Members retain their membership of NZHCA and pay an additional credentialling fee on top of their full membership.
Benefits
The New Zealand and Australian spiritual care environment is changing, with the space contested both by other professions, and by competing understandings of requirements for roles. Increasingly, government, employment bodies and education providers are seeking agreed high level standards from Chaplains / spiritual care practitioners.
The SCA Capabilities Framework offers a broad-based agreement on what constitutes a safe, professional practitioner, and being credentialed with SCA ensures you have been independently accredited to work at the level for which you are employed.
If you choose to become credentialed, employers, the public and your clients will know that you complete your work to the highest standard, and you are ensuring your work provides safe, professional person-centred care.
What is a Certified Spiritual Care Practitioner?
Credentialling looks at five domains of practice:
Provision of Care: Participates in the planning, delivery and management of evidence-based client care.
Collaborative Care: Builds and maintains effective working relationships and works in partnership with others.
Values-based Care: Recognises the complexity of spiritual and organisational systems and engages in processes and activities that promote safe, quality, effective services for all.
Professional Integrity: Acts in accordance with professional, ethical and legal standards.
Professional Development: Maintains and extends professional competence and contributes to the learning and development of others.
The four levels that can be achieved through credentialing:
Level One: Supervised Practitioner.
Level Two: Independent Practitioner.
Level Three: Senior Practitioner.
Level Four: Strategic Leadership Credentialing.
Spiritual Care certification by SCA is valued in many fields, and more and more industries are seeking the SCA certification for both employment and career advancement.
To register your interest in being credentialled please ??