Mission Leader - Athens

Employment Type

Full time

POSITION PURPOSE

The Mission Leader provides executive Mission Integration leadership as part of a Health Ministry leadership team, ensuring the successful assessment and integration of mission in all the ministries' activities, decisions, and strategies. The Mission Leader is responsible for the implementation of Mission activities and delivery of Mission Integration Essential Services, in alignment with system-level Mission Integration strategies and operational priorities. Mission Integration directed services include ministry formation, ethics, cultivation of the ministry community, and implementation of the Catholic Identity Assessment (CIA).

In addition, the Mission Leader collaborates with the Manager of Spiritual Care to ensure the full integration of professional chaplaincy within the Ministry. The Mission Leader reports directly to a service area Vice President of Mission Integration & Mission Strategy Partner (MSP) with a dual reporting relationship to designated Health Ministry CEOs, president(s) and/or administrator(s).

• Knows, understands, incorporates, and demonstrates the Trinity Health Mission, Vision, and Core Values in behaviors, practices, and decisions.
• Facilitates the integration of Trinity Health’s Mission and Core Values in all care settings and among all colleagues within designated Ministry(ies).
• Implements and makes relevant system Mission Integration strategies, policies, and standard practices for the Health Ministry in accordance with operational plans and priorities identified at the system level. May supervise Mission Integration Consultant(s) to assist in these functions as designated by MSP.
• Serves as an active member of Ministry executive leadership team(s), as designated by the MSP, strategic and organizational development teams, and other leadership groups as appropriate. Develops, participates in, leads and influences daily operational decisions and activities of the Ministry by contributing a mission-focused perspective, experience, encouragement, and challenge.
• Works with stakeholders from acute care, community-based, and continuing care ministries to ensure the implementation of the Trinity Health Mission Integration operational plan, its priority objectives, and the assessment and improvement of Mission Integration Essential Services for the designated Local Community of Service (LCS).
• Attends Ministry board meetings and provides mission-focused formation and education for the board on a regular basis.
• Ensures that standard Mission Integration policies and procedures are implemented by the designated Ministry(ies).
• Beginning with orientation of new colleagues, the Mission Leader ensures continuing ministry formation of leaders and colleagues.
• Collaborates with colleagues in all operational areas (e.g., talent development, human resources, finances, planning, advocacy/government relations, communication and marketing, community health and well-being, etc.) to ensure that Mission, Vision, and Core Values are integrated into Ministry programs, policies, and procedures.
• Oversees the implementation of all phases of Catholic Identity Assessment (CIA), a program to assess and deepen the organization’s Catholic identity.
• Oversees and provides for Ministry organizational and clinical ethics programs, including the implementation of the Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services (ERDs), ethics facilitation, and the support of the Ministry’s Ethics Committee(s).
• Serves as the executive sponsor and leader of colleague care and well-being for the Health Ministry.
• Supports and coordinates mission discernment education and processes for Ministry boards and leadership teams.
• Partners with the system Director of Spiritual Care in providing supervision and support to Manager(s) of Spiritual Care.
• Oversees executive administrative duties related to designated Ministry’s Mission Integration departments and programs (e.g. spiritual care, ethics, ministry formation, colleague care, etc.) and others designated by its CEO, president(s), or administrator(s), with support from the MSP.
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