Permanent part time – 32 hours a fortnight
$37.67 – $41.65 per hour
Pastoral Care Practitioner – Overview
Grampians Health is seeking a compassionate Pastoral Care Practitioner to provide emotional and spiritual support to patients, families and carers within our Horsham health service.
As part of the Grampians Health Pastoral Care Team, you will deliver inclusive, person‐centred care that honours each person's beliefs, values, culture and life experiences. Through supportive conversations, spiritual assessment, care planning, ritual and referral, you will help people find meaning, connection and hope during challenging times.
If you are passionate about holistic healthcare and supporting the wellbeing of others within a diverse and contemporary healthcare environment, we would welcome your application.
Key Responsibilities
* Provide confidential spiritual and emotional support to patients and families/carers, including responding to referrals and opportunistic presentations
* Offer interventions that may include presence, active listening, meaning‐making support, grief support, supportive prayer/ritual where requested, and facilitation of culturally/faith‐appropriate practices (with consent).
* Document spiritual care activity in the patient record in a timely manner, including referrals, assessment themes, interventions and outcomes.
Skills & Experience
* Relevant qualification or substantial progress toward a qualification in a related discipline (e.g., theology, pastoral/spiritual care, counselling, social sciences, psychology, community services or equivalent).
* Completion of at least one unit of CPE (or recognised equivalent), or commitment to commence/complete within an agreed timeframe.
* Experience or developing capability in providing spiritual and pastoral care support, including grief and loss, crisis support, end‐of‐life care, and supportive conversations within scope of practice.
* Competence in basic IT and ability to document care in electronic systems with support/training.
Culture & Benefits
* Flexible work arrangements and purchase leave opportunities
* Salary packaging for living expenses such as rent/mortgage plus meals, entertainment & holidays
* Access to Fitness Passport membership
* Staff rewards and recognition programmes
Diversity and Inclusion
All appointments are subject to a satisfactory police records check, immunisation clearance and Working with Children check and/or NDIS Worker Screening Check.
All employees must be willing and able to wear Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) when required, which at a minimum is a surgical mask. Additional PPE requirements are role dependent.
Grampians Health is a child safe organisation, committed to the safety and wellbeing of all children and young people. Grampians Health is committed to providing a diverse and inclusive workforce.
We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disability, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, mature age workers and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (or questioning), intersex and asexual LGBTQIA+.
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