Angela Henderson
Spiritual Care Counselor
Aurora,CO
Summary
Mission and vision-oriented team player with strong organizational skills. Highly skilled at building relationships with team members, families, and patients.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
Work History
Spiritual Care Program Coordinator
Dignity Hospice
03.2021 - 10.2023
- Provided ongoing direction and leadership for program operations.
- Scheduled and supervised staff meetings to discuss new ideas and update participants on program details and milestones.
- Developed and maintained relationships with external partners to facilitate program operations.
- Collaborated with other program coordinators to achieve consistency in program objectives and services.
Chaplain
SCL Health - Lutheran Hospital
Wheat Ridge, CO
03.2018 - 03.2021
- Provided spiritual guidance, emotional support and direct care to residents, family members and staff.
- Provided spiritual care through visitation, counseling, and prayer.
- Comforted family members, offered attentive listening and high level of emotional support.
- Applied knowledge regarding crisis interventions to assist in emergency situations.
- Officiated special services such as weddings, funerals, baptisms, and nursing home services.
Chaplain Resident (CPE - 4 Units)
Sutter General Hospital
Sacramento, CA
06.2012 - 05.2013
- Offered spiritual support to patients in the hospital, completed spiritual assessments, and documented each visit.
- Worked closely with hospital staff by attending rounds.
- Communicated regularly with nurses, social workers, and case managers.
- Learned through reflection, action, and dialogue in an interdisciplinary environment with colleagues, mentors, and chaplain supervisors through verbatim and group work.
Chaplain Intern (CPE - 1 Unit)
UC Davis Hospital
Sacramento, CA
03.2012 - 06.2012
Chaplain Intern (CPE - 1 Unit)
Methodist Hospital of Southern California
Arcadia, CA
09.2009 - 02.2010
Assistant Minister
First Unitarian Universalist Church
Houston, TX
08.2014 - 07.2017
- Encouraged engagement of visitors and new members.
- Provided availability, warmth, and care as Pastoral Care minister.
- Nurtured the spirit of the church through worship and its preparation in weekly creative team meetings.
- Developed and planned summer worship programming each year.
- Promoted honest, respectful and direct communication between church leadership and membership through serving as ministerial liaison to our Healthy Communications Team and responding to member feedback.
- Coordinated a city-wide effort (UU Voice for Justice) among UU congregations to offer progressive religious public witness to matters of justice.
- Nurtured and supported many congregational teams as they fulfilled the work of our church.
Contract Minister
Universalist Unitarian Church of Riverside
Riverside, CA
08.2013 - 04.2014
- Provided pastoral support, preaching, and worship during a transitional time of ministry for our congregation in Riverside.
Campus Minister
Unitarian Universalist Church of Davis
Davis, CA
08.2011 - 06.2012
Intern Minister
Pacific Unitarian Church
Rancho Palos Verdes, CA
08.2010 - 06.2011
Education
Master of Divinity -
Claremont School of Theology
Claremont, CA05.2010
Bachelor of Science in Information Technology Management -
University of Phoenix
Wichita, KS05.2006
Bachelor of Fine Art in Graphic Design -
Fort Hays State University
Hays, KS05.1999
Skills
- Creative
- Curious
- Process Improvement
- Program Management
- Staff Development
- Hiring and Recruitment Knowledge
- Staff Evaluations
- Interdepartmental Coordination
Affiliations
- In Full Fellowship in Good Standing as an Ordained Minister of the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations
- Unitarian Universalist Ministers' Association
- Board and Founding Member of Bridges UU
- Toastmasters
Timeline
Spiritual Care Program Coordinator
Dignity Hospice
03.2021 - 10.2023
Chaplain
SCL Health - Lutheran Hospital
03.2018 - 03.2021
Assistant Minister
First Unitarian Universalist Church
08.2014 - 07.2017
Contract Minister
Universalist Unitarian Church of Riverside
08.2013 - 04.2014
Chaplain Resident (CPE - 4 Units)
Sutter General Hospital
06.2012 - 05.2013
Chaplain Intern (CPE - 1 Unit)
UC Davis Hospital
03.2012 - 06.2012
Campus Minister
Unitarian Universalist Church of Davis
08.2011 - 06.2012
Intern Minister
Pacific Unitarian Church
08.2010 - 06.2011
Chaplain Intern (CPE - 1 Unit)
Methodist Hospital of Southern California
09.2009 - 02.2010
Master of Divinity -
Claremont School of Theology
Bachelor of Science in Information Technology Management -
University of Phoenix
Bachelor of Fine Art in Graphic Design -
Fort Hays State University
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