Mental Health Chaplain
Location: Lewisham
Employment Type: Full-Time (FT)
Department: Institutional Chaplaincy
About The Role
A Mental Health Chaplain provides high quality transformational pastoral care and spiritual support to consumers, their families and carers in line with CatholicCare's Person Centred Approach, Mission, Vision and Values. The Chaplain works inclusively with people of diverse backgrounds, issues and needs, of faith or not, to sustain and empower the individual to enable holistic wellbeing and recovery.
The Chaplain is responsible for:
* Assessing the religious, spiritual, pastoral and practical needs of consumers and their families
* Providing a Ministry of presence, spiritual guidance, pastoral care and grief support
* Enabling, where appropriate, participation in worship, sacraments and other religious functions
* Assessing and managing appropriate boundary, privacy and confidentiality issues
* Promoting and raising the profile of Chaplaincy amongst facility staff; providing education and leadership through speaking engagements and other appropriate activities to the wider community on the role of a Mental Health Chaplain
* Developing and maintaining consultative and collaborative relationships with Chaplains from various religious denominations working within the Mental Health service
* Developing and maintaining consultative and collaborative relationships with chaplains and clergy working near the Mental Health centre
About You
To be a successful candidate for this role you will have:
* The ability to undertake the duties of the role in accordance with CatholicCare's Mission, Vision and Values
* A demonstrated commitment to the ethos and values of the Catholic Church and its faith traditions
* Pastoral Care and/or Pastoral Counselling qualifications such as Clinical Pastoral Education (minimum 400 hours), or equivalent
* The ability to articulate a variety of theological perspectives arising from an individual's particular theological formation. Additional qualifications in Mental Health are desirable but not essential.
* A demonstrated ability in delivering pastoral care and spiritual mentoring in a multi‐faith context, and the ability to engage with people in matters of belief and meaning
* A demonstrated ability to listen, respond and act with sensitivity, empathy, compassion and confidentiality
* A demonstrated understanding of problems which may be experienced by clients and their carers
* A demonstrated experience in working in an institutional context
* A high level of organisational skills to ensure achievable scheduling of visits, detailed visit notes and data collection and retrieval.
Benefits
* Professional Growth: Tailored professional development opportunities to support your career ambitions
* Tax Savings: Generous salary packaging
* Generous Leave: Above‐award annual and personal/carers leave, extended parental leave, celebration day
* Supportive Team: Friendly and supportive team values your contributions
* Wellbeing: Free access to a premium mindfulness app, EAP counselling, yearly flu vaccinations and a variety of wellbeing activities to make your workday more enjoyable
Employment Conditions
Generous above‐award rates + Super + Not‐for‐profit salary packaging up to $18,550.
Equal Opportunity
We welcome applications from individuals of all ages, nationalities, abilities and cultures, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, members of the LGBTQI+ community and people living with disabilities.
Roles require a National Criminal History Record Check prior to employment, and where necessary a Working with Children Check. This role is a Category A Health worker role requiring immunisation according to the NSW Health policy PD2026_004 Occupational Assessment Screening and Vaccination Against Specified Infectious Diseases.
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