Chaplain - Retirement Living I Kellyville

• Permanent Parttime role offering 60.8 hours per fortnight (4 days per week)
• Nurture faith and cultivate a strong community at our Gracewood Retirement Village based at Kellyville
• Join an organisation that values everyones emotional & spiritual growth

Gracewood Village nestled in Sydneys beautiful Kellyville offers a vibrant community lifestyle that combines modern luxuries with traditional values of neighbourliness. Our awardwinning community provides a fully integrated independent living environment with aged care available as needs change.

Your Role:

As a Chaplain you will provide effective personcentred spiritual and pastoral care to residents staff and volunteers irrespective of cultural background faith tradition or beliefs. Your role will involve compassionate and attentive listening assessing spiritual and pastoral needs and delivering personcentred spiritual care initiatives.

The wonderful opportunity will also see you conduct worship services staff devotions funerals and other rites of passage. Additionally you will support and encourage BaptistCare staff and volunteers document pastoral contacts report activities and attend team meetings

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
• Experience working in collaborative multidisciplinary settings
• 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 multidisciplinary 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 selfnurture and selfcare
• demonstrated commitment to maintain professional boundaries and professional spiritual development

Desirable Experience:

• 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

About Us:

BaptistCare is a leading forpurpose Christianbased care organisation that supports thousands of people across more than 100 locations in NSW ACT and WA. From humble beginnings in 1944 BaptistCare has grown into one of the nations most respected care and community services providers. We create strong and caring communities and place people at the centre of all we do.

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 Transforming lives by expressing the love of Christ.

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.