Chaplain

• Max term part-time role for 3 months 45.6 hours per fortnight (3 days per week) Open to Casual hours
• Support residents families & staff in Dubbo and across our Kintyre Lodge & Kintyre Living Village
• Help foster wellbeing dignity and a sense of belonging through person-centred pastoral care

Your Role:

As a Chaplain you will provide effective person-centred spiritual and pastoral care to customers their carers staff and volunteers. Your role will involve compassionate and attentive listening assessing spiritual and pastoral needs and delivering person-centred spiritual care initiatives.

The wonderful opportunity will also see you conduct worship services staff devotions funerals and other rites of passage participate in case management reviews and contribute to care plans. Additionally you will support and encourage BaptistCare staff and volunteers document pastoral contacts report activities attend team meetings and manage a team of Pastoral Care Volunteers.

About You:

Essential Qualifications & Experience:

• Tertiary qualifications in chaplaincy /pastoral care OR tertiary theological qualifications with a willingness to undertake chaplaincy / pastoral care specific training
• Ability to demonstrate a high level of Christian spiritual maturity with a pastoral heart
• Active involvement in and recommendation from a local Christian Church
• Chaplaincy or pastoral care experience
• Current Working with Children Check
• Willingness to undergo a police check

Essential Competencies:

• A personal commitment to growth in the Christian faith
• Ability to recognise the spiritual and pastoral needs of clients and to design deliver and evaluate person centred spiritual care initiatives in accordance with professional codes and standards of conduct.
• Ability to develop and maintain positive working relationships with clients and to work effectively as a member of a multi-disciplinary team
• Ability to facilitate safe and welcoming spaces which provide a sense of community and belonging
• Treat all clients with equity respect and dignity
• Provide spiritual and pastoral care in ways that respect and value diversity e.g. age race faith culture disability gender spirituality and sexuality
• Ability to work within BaptistCares Purpose and Values and willingness to promote its Christian identity
• Ability to work within BaptistCares Policies and Procedures
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Ability to supervise support and train pastoral care volunteers
• A demonstrated commitment to self-nurture and self-care
• demonstrated commitment to maintain professional boundaries and professional spiritual development

Desirable Experience:

• Previous experience in residential aged care or retirement living will be highly regarded
• Understanding of the spiritual and pastoral needs of those living with dementia loss grief and bereavement long term illness relationship disharmony mental health disability loneliness or receiving palliative care
• Visiting clients in homes and hospitals as appropriate

If you would like to be considered for the role click Apply and please provide the following:

• A cover letter addressing ALL the listed essential qualifications & experience and competencies
• Updated Resume

Baptist Care empowers staff by offering flexible work hours a supportive team training opportunities and financial benefits including salary packaging and stability working for an industry leading provider.

About Us:

BaptistCare is a leading purpose-led care organisation guided by our Christian identity and serving people and communities across Australia for more than 110 years. We support people to live better through aged care home care retirement living community services disability support and housing.

We know that lifes challenges can make our world feel smaller. With the right people alongside us it can feel more connected supported and hopeful again.

Thats what we work towards every day - enriching lives through communities of care. Today more than 70000 customers 12000 employees and close to 2000 volunteers are part of our communities across Australia.

Applicants are encouraged to apply as soon as possible as applications may be reviewed prior to the closing date. Closing Date is subject to change without notice.

Successful applications will be subject to a variety of background checks including police background check via our online police check system Working with Children Check and NDIS check as applicable.

BaptistCare Inspired by Jesus to champion care for all.

Please note: This position is being managed directly by our internal Talent Acquisition team. We respectfully request that recruitment agencies refrain from contacting any employees directly as all communications must go through the Talent Acquisition. Unsolicited candidate profiles or CVs from recruitment agencies will not be accepted. Thank you.