Pastoral Care Worker

As a member of the pastoral care team the Pastoral Care Worker is responsible for the provision of spiritual and emotional support to patients families/significant others and staff within the hospital setting at Epworth Freemasons based in East role requires you to have a highly developed interpersonal skill with an ability to work in a multi-disciplinary team and be sensitive to the psychosocial cultural religious and spiritual aspects of illness and hospitalisation. You will be able to identify and provide for the spiritual needs of patients families significant others and staff.

Position Description Inherent Requirements

Qualifications :

You will bring:

• Experience offering pastoral care in a health care facility
• Minimum of two (2) units of Clinical Pastoral Education one unit at Advanced level (now called Level Three) or equivalent program of supervised work experience.
• Tertiary level studies in Theology Pastoral Counselling Social Sciences or equivalent
• The ability to provide loss grief and bereavement support
• Knowledge of and respect for religious and cultural differences including respecting the dignity of each person in non-judgmental ways and attending to the specific needs of Indigenous and Torres Strait Islander and LGBTIQ patients families/significant others and staff.

Additional Information :

Why Join Epworth

At Epworth its a community.

Its the sense of belonging and being part of an organisation and a team that works to make sure that every patient addition to this you will have access to:

• Salary package up to $15900 pre-tax annually leading to greater take home pay
• The largest educational scholarship program of its kind in Australia
• Ability to purchase up to four additional weeks of leave
• Reduced cost of health services for you and your family at Epworth
• Relocation assistance is available for approved candidates

We welcome applicants from all backgrounds. This includes First Nations peoples people with disability mature-age and young job seekers members of the LGBTIQA community and individuals from all cultural backgrounds. We are committed to providing an equitable inclusive and barrier-free recruitment experience for everyone.

If you need support during the application process or would like to discuss reasonable adjustments we encourage you to let us know what you need to participate fully and confidently. We understand that sharing your needs can feel daunting so please know that any information you provide will be treated with the utmost confidentiality and respect.

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It is a condition of employment with Epworth HealthCare subject to reasonable exemptions that you have had an annual Influenza vaccination where this is required under Epworth policy.

As a child safe organisation all successful applicants are required to satisfactorily clear a National Police Check (conducted by Epworth) and may be required to hold a valid employee Working with Children Check (provided by you).

At Epworth we believe inclusion and diversity are essential to our culture and values. We focus on fairness and opportunity for all across race ability ethnicity gender age sexuality cultures and beliefs that reflect the communities we work in. At Epworth we care.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Part-time