Spiritual Wellbeing Employee

We have a long history of providing exceptional care that empowers older people to live a full life. As a not-for-profit aged care provider, we're able to invest in providing an exceptional experience to our clients as well as support and develop our frontline staff to achieve this. When you join us, you will be provided with a competitive rate of pay, not-for-profit salary packaging benefits and the support of a wonderful leadership team and colleagues.

The role is currently being offered at a rate of $ 25.04 per hr plus super + plus 25% casual loading rate.

**The Role**

In this rewarding role you will work collaboratively with all stakeholders to coordinate the spiritual wellbeing and pastoral needs of residents.
- This position is accountable and responsible in ensuring compliance with SCC policies and procedures, Handbooks, relevant standards, relevant legislation and accepted industry practices.
- As a Spiritual wellbeing Coordinator, you will be responsible for a range of activities to meet spiritual, pastoral and religious needs:

- Holistic integration of spiritual and pastoral care:

- Support and contribute to integrating spiritual and pastoral care across all care and services.
- Recruit, train and support volunteers to support residents’ spiritual and pastoral care.
- Establish and maintain effective links and relationships with community groups and faith communities to support spiritual and pastoral care.
- Contribute positively to team work to achieve operational outcomes and promote a positive SCC workplace culture in alignment with SCC Values, mission and vision.
- Being able to liaise and collaborate with all relevant stakeholders, both internal and external to ensure effective and efficient workflow.
- The position is required to comply with and contribute to Work Health and Safety policies and procedures.

**As a spiritual wellbeing **coordinator,** you will**:

- Being Committed to supporting the SCC’s vision, mission and values
- Active Christian faith, church involvement and commitment to Christian growth.
- Relevant qualifications (at least Cert IV or Graduate Diploma level) in appropriate fields such as pastoral care in the context of ageing, chaplaincy, counselling or social work
- Experience in aged care pastoral/spiritual care
- Capacity to acquire skills in recruiting, selecting and supporting Pastoral Care Volunteers
- Experience in conducting training and education in spiritual care
- Acceptance and sensitivity to and understanding of the spiritual dimension of older people
- High-level communication skills including reflective listening
- Innovative and creative thinking to problem-solving
- Leadership capacity to encourage and engage team members
- Ability to network with enthusiasm in a way that actively connects with faith communities and community groups
- Well-organised and able to plan and coordinate a range of activities and priorities.
- Strong computer and technology skills
- Capacity to implement and follow structured systems and processes
- Current driver’s license and ability to regularly travel and be away from home on occasions for learning and development event

**Desirable**:

- Vocational/tertiary qualifications in adult education and training
- Experience recruiting, leading, training and supporting Pastoral Care Volunteers

**About Southern Cross Care (NSW & ACT)**

We are a not-for-profit organisation with a mission to empower older people to ‘live life to the full’. For the last 50 years our name has been trusted by the community to provide care and support for thousands of people in over 40 locations across NSW and the ACT.

We have a passion for providing the best care with clinical excellence. We offer person-centred care services to meet individual needs and preferences in residential aged care as well as in-home care. At SCC, people are at the heart of everything we do. We support our employees to excel