Overview
Pastoral Care Practitioner – 0.4 FTE (15.2 hrs/week) – Calvary Lakes Entrance, Lakes Entrance, VIC, Australia 3909. Permanent role with closing on Oct 3 2025. Calvary Health Care is a large health care provider where you can progress with purpose.
About the Role
Help shape the provision of spiritual and pastoral care of residents, families and staff at Calvary, ensuring their diverse spiritual needs are identified and responded to with exceptional sensitivity, compassion, knowledge and skill. The Pastoral Care Practitioner participates as a member of the care team in the delivery of services to residents and their family members, and is responsible for ensuring that the diverse pastoral and spiritual needs of residents, their families and staff are identified and responded to. The position is part of an integrated team within an established framework supporting the resident to live their best life.
Responsibilities
- Providing spiritual care support to residents according to triage priorities
- As required, providing spiritual care support to residents\' family members and to staff
- Establishing and maintaining collaborative relationships with key stakeholders
About You / Qualifications
- A tertiary qualification in pastoral care, spiritual direction, counselling or similar
- Clinical Pastoral Education and/or equivalent; recent experience in aged care, health care or community care
- Established skills in preparation, creation, leadership and facilitation of meaningful rituals
- Eligibility for SCA certified membership
Shortlisting and interviews may commence during the advertising period; please apply early. Support to complete clinical pastoral care training is available for those applying as a supervised practitioner.
Benefits
- NFP salary packaging benefits, discounted health insurance and gym memberships
- Paid parental leave
- Training, development pathways and career opportunities
- Flexible hours that make sense for you
Pre-employment & Contacts
As part of the application process, you will be required to complete pre-employment checks which may include reference checks, work rights, criminal history check, NDIS/WWCC/WWVP checks, and a health evaluation to ensure suitability for the role.
For further information please contact:
Sarah Haywood
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