Spiritual Care Coordinator Critical Care and

Location: Melbourne | Southern Metropolitan

Job type: Not provided

Organisation: Monash Health

**Salary**: Salary not specified

Occupation: Administration/Secretarial

Reference: 55978

**Australia’s first Heart Hospital is opening soon Join us at Australia’s only dedicated, purpose-built heart hospital.**

**Our journey**

The **Victorian Heart Hospital** will be Australia’s first dedicated heart hospital and is nearing its final stages of construction. It will include a full range of ambulatory and inpatient cardiac care, including cardiac theatres, cardiac catheterisation laboratories, emergency, intensive care and ambulatory services such as cardiac CT, echocardiography and specialist consultation. It will also feature a unique, patient centred model of care. The Victorian Heart Hospital will also play a key role in advancing research and teaching and will be home to the Victorian Heart Institute, a brand new, health and medical research organisation at Monash University.

**About Spiritual Care**

The **Spiritual Care Department** is looking for an experienced **Spiritual Care Coordinator **to join the team working at the **Victorian Heart Hospital**, working collaboratively with the Spiritual Care Coordinators across Casey, Dandenong, Kingston, Moorabbin and Clayton sites.

**Recruiting Now Hiring **Spiritual Care Coordinator**

By joining Monash Health’s cardiac team as a **Spiritual Care Coordinator **you will be welcomed into a positive and supportive environment, passionate about delivering cardiac care to a diverse and growing local community. The career opportunities are limitless with access to education support within a tertiary hospital.

You’ll also enjoy working in brand new facilities in a dedicated heart hospital that will provide:

- improved facilities in a sustainable design, filled with colour, natural light and space
- dedicated leadership team fostering high performing talent and career progression within a tertiary hospital
- cutting edge state of the art technology and innovative design to facilitate world-leading research

**This is a part-time (0.4 EFT) permanent role and previous spiritual care experience is essential.**

**A Day in the Life**:
We guarantee that no two days will be the same.

In this important role, you will have the opportunity to showcase your skills including:

- To offer spiritual, religious and pastoral support to Victorian Heart Hospital, families and staff, recognizing that each person has their own spirituality which may or may not be expressed in formal religious beliefs or practices.
- To practice within a multi-faith and culturally diverse setting.
- To offer some administrative support as may be advised by the Manager of Social Work Spritual Care onsite
- Provision of information and relevant supports to visiting chaplains and spiritual care volunteers
- Previous experience in providing spiritual care support is essential.

**What You Bring**
- You will be a dynamic, innovative and flexible clinical practitioner with a good understanding of and sensitivity to psycho-social, cultural, religious and spiritual aspects of illness and hospitalization.
- You will have well developed skills in providing spiritual care supports, as well as highly developed communication and interpersonal skills.
- Experience providing spiritual care in a health care setting is desirable as well as proficiency for documentation in electronic medical records.
- Demonstrated ability to work autonomously and as a team member with attention to self-care practices in coping with emotionally demanding situations. Evidence of good standing within a faith tradition is required.

**On a personal level, you will demonstrate**:

- Your dedication to safe best practice and quality care
- An unwavering commitment to delivering patient centred care

**What you need**:

- Eligibility for membership of Spiritual Care Australia (SCA) at “Certified Level”
- Essential qualifications and formation in Spiritual Care (refer to the PD)
- Demonstration of continuing professional education and commitment to ongoing professional supervision as stipulated by SCA
- Proven experience in providing spiritual care support in acute and subacute settings
- Knowledge and experience working closely with multi-disciplinary teams
- Current Driver’s Licence

**In Return**

You’ll be joining Australia’s first dedicated heart hospital and be a part of:

- a passionate cardiac team dedicated to making a difference to the health of Victorians
- a friendly, flexible work environment
- unique opportunities for education, career growth and support
- mentorship from a highly experienced and respected team
- the largest public health service in Victoria, employing more than 22,000 people

We recognise the value of equal employment opportunity and are committed to patient safety and promoting fairness, equity and diversity in the workplace. At Monash Health, we are relentless in our pursuit of exce