Chaplain

**Permanent Part-time role offering 60.8 hours per fortnight (4 days per week)**:

- **Nurture faith and cultivate a strong community at our Gracewood Retirement Village based at Kellyville**:

- **Join an organisation that values everyone’s emotional & spiritual growth**

Gracewood Village, nestled in Sydney's beautiful Kellyville, offers a vibrant community lifestyle that combines modern luxuries with traditional values of neighbourliness. Our award-winning community provides a fully integrated independent living environment, with aged care available as needs change.

**Your Role**:
As a Chaplain, you will provide effective, person-centred, spiritual, and pastoral care to residents, staff, and volunteers irrespective of cultural background, faith tradition or beliefs. Your role will involve compassionate and attentive listening, assessing spiritual and pastoral needs, and delivering person-centred spiritual care initiatives.

The wonderful opportunity will also see you conduct worship services, staff devotions, funerals, and other rites of passage. Additionally, you will support and encourage BaptistCare staff and volunteers, document pastoral contacts, report activities and attend team meetings

**About You**:
**Essential Qualifications & Experience**:

- Tertiary qualifications in chaplaincy /pastoral care OR tertiary theological qualifications, with a willingness to undertake chaplaincy / pastoral care specific training
- Ability to demonstrate a high level of Christian spiritual maturity with a pastoral heart
- Active involvement in and recommendation from a local Christian Church
- Chaplaincy or pastoral care experience
- Current ‘Working with Children Check’
- Experience working in collaborative, multi-disciplinary settings
- Willingness to undergo a police check

**Essential Competencies**:

- A personal commitment to growth in the Christian faith
- Ability to recognise the spiritual and pastoral needs of clients and to design, deliver and evaluate person centred spiritual care initiatives in accordance with professional codes and standards of conduct.
- Ability to develop and maintain positive working relationships with clients and to work effectively as a member of a multi-disciplinary team
- Ability to facilitate safe and welcoming spaces which provide a sense of community and belonging
- Treat all clients with equity, respect, and dignity
- Provide spiritual and pastoral care in ways that respect and value diversity, e.g. age, race, faith, culture, disability, gender, spirituality, and sexuality
- Ability to work within BaptistCare’s Purpose and Values and willingness to promote its Christian identity
- Ability to work within BaptistCare’s Policies and Procedures
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Ability to supervise, support and train pastoral care volunteers
- A demonstrated commitment to self-nurture and self-care
- demonstrated commitment to maintain professional boundaries, and professional spiritual development

**Desirable Experience**:

- Understanding of the spiritual and pastoral needs of those living with dementia, loss, grief and bereavement, long term illness, relationship disharmony, mental health, disability, loneliness, or receiving palliative care
- Visiting clients in homes and hospitals as appropriate

If you would like to be considered for the role, click **“Apply”** and please provide the following**:

- **A cover letter addressing ALL the listed essential qualifications & experience and competencies**:

- **Updated Resume**

**About Us**:
BaptistCare is a leading for-purpose Christian-based care organisation that supports thousands of people across more than 100 locations in NSW, ACT and WA. From humble beginnings in 1944, BaptistCare has grown into one of the nation’s most respected care and community services providers. We create strong and caring communities and place people at the centre of all we do.

**BaptistCare - Transforming lives by expressing the love of Christ.