Spiritual Care Coordinator

Spiritual Care Coordinator
North Metro Region Melbourne
0.8FTE Maximum Term Contract for 4 months (June to October)
About Us
At Baptcare, we care. Our Mission and Vision are lived through our WE CARE Values: for our residents, customers, clients, partners, and supporters; with the very young through to the very old, the vulnerable, with families through all of life’s stages and challenges.
Baptcare is a purpose driven organisation working across Victoria, Tasmania, and South Australia. Focused on providing residential and community care for older people and support to children, families, and people with disability, financially disadvantaged people and people seeking asylum.
Our Values are Wellbeing, Ethics, Cocreating, Accountability, Respect and Effectiveness.
About the Role
The In Home Care Spiritual Care Coordinator is responsible for the provision of high-quality spiritual for IHC clients and their carers; significant co-creative leadership with teams; effective recruitment, training and supervision of spiritual care volunteers; and in conjunction with managers, supports the co-ordination, resourcing and development of initiatives with staff that facilitate the integration of spiritual care across the organisation.
Key Duties
The provision of support to individuals through fully hearing the person’s narrative and enabling conversation whereby spiritual wellbeing and healing is nurtured, and (where possible), practically supported, advocated or further resourced through appropriate referral.
Personal or familial counsel, offering emotional/spiritual support, ethical consultation, religious counsel, spiritual review, death, dying and bereavement support, mental health support, development of coping strategies and improving resilience and guidance in matters of religious belief or spiritual practice.
All care is offered in a manner consistent with the Aged Care Act (1997) and the Aged Care Quality Standards (2019) and principles of Trauma Informed Care.
Uphold confidentiality and respect the privacy of residents, families and staff.
Initial and subsequent appraisals, including a facilitative/in-depth review of a person’s life journey attending to the spiritual wellbeing issues, needs and resources of a person.
Ensures that all Spiritual Care assessment plans are completed within the timeframe required.
Participate constructively and collaboratively in IHC leadership, supporting a respectful and transparent team culture. Establish and maintain trustworthy relationships with IHC staff to enable the provision of responsive care to clients.
 Following appropriate referral pathways and maintaining professional liaison with external service providers.
 Spiritual Care Volunteers are trained and recruited from local congregations and community groups
**You will ideally bring the following**:
Leadership experience in a faith or local community context.
Mature spiritual and pastoral formation and capacity to reflect theologically on experience.
Highly developed listening and interpersonal skills, demonstrating an understanding of person-centred care.
Experience in providing spiritual care to people in a community or aged care context.
Understanding of and demonstrated ability to work sensitively with individuals and faith/community groups from diverse religious, spiritual and cultural traditions.
Excellent written and oral communication skills, including the capacity to explain the practice and possibilities of spiritual care to people from varied backgrounds.
Experience and/or special interest in working in dementia and palliative care contexts and with older people.
Minimum 2 years’ experience in providing spiritual care to people outside a faith community.
Experience in recruitment, training, ongoing management and supervision of volunteers.
Demonstrated flexibility and ability to work independently, as well as part of an interdisciplinary team.
Experience and skills in administrative duties, including data collection and reporting on outcomes.
Competence in Microsoft Office and related software.
Alignment and commitment to Baptcare’s Mission, Vision and Values.
Essential
400 hours of reflective practice training e.g. 2 units of CPE/ STFE/ CCTC Intern Program or commitment to complete at own cost within first 12 months.
Qualifications in theology or spiritual care e.g. Bachelor or Diploma of Theology/ Ministry/ Chaplaincy.
A competitive salary, plus access to the tax benefits of salary packaging and novated leasing.
Access to confidential counselling and support services.
Be part of an organisation and a team that is driven to make a difference to the lives of our vulnerable community members.
**How to apply**: Applications close: May 25th 2025
Only short-listed applicants will be contacted.
Applicants must have the right to work in Australia.
The successful applicant will be required to undergo a National Criminal History check.
At Baptcare, we value diversity in all forms and aim to co-create inclusive experien