This role leads a team of Pastoral Care Practitioners

• The Manager of Pastoral Care and Mission Integration is a vocational opportunity to put your own compassionate purpose into wholistic person centred care in a team committed to Being for Others.
• Progress with purpose at one of Australia’s largest health care providers
• Get ahead with salary packaging, benefits and professional development in a supportive team environment
• Permanent full-time opportunity
• Flexible working arrangements

About the Manager of Pastoral Care and Mission Integration role

Help shape the provision of spiritual and pastoral care of patients, families and staff at Calvary, ensuring their diverse spiritual needs are identified and responded to with exceptional sensitivity, compassion, knowledge and skill.

The Manager of Pastoral Care and Mission Integration leads a pastoral care team in the delivery of services to patients and their families and is responsible for ensuring that the diverse pastoral and spiritual needs patients and staff are identified and responded to. The Manager of Pastoral Care and Mission Integration is part of a state-wide team of colleagues pursuing the implementation of Calvary's Mission and Values.

As the Manager of Pastoral Care and Mission Integration some of your main duties will include:

• leading a team that provides spiritual care support to patients according to triage priorities
• assisting the Regional Director of Mission to lead a number of Mission related projects
• Establishing and maintaining collaborative relationships with key stakeholders

About you

You are a highly engaged professional practitioner, seeking to up hold the dignity of people living in residential aged care and seeking to make a meaningful contribution to their wellbeing.

• A tertiary qualification in pastoral care, spiritual direction, counselling or similar
• Clinical Pastoral Education and/or equivalent Recent experience working in a similar role in aged care, health care or community care
• Established skills in preparation, creation, leadership and facilitation of meaningful rituals
• Eligibility for SCA certified membership

Why work for Calvary?

At Calvary, our staff matter. 

With over 140 years’ experience and 18,000 staff and volunteers, we offer an inclusive and welcoming culture where you are valued, drawing on your own strengths, identity and background alongside a team of professionals who care for our patients, residents and clients.

Your benefits: 

• NFP salary packaging benefits, discounted health insurance and gym memberships 
• Paid parental leave 
• Training, development pathways and career opportunities
• Flexible hours that make sense for you

As we serve the community across Home, Virtual and Residential Aged Care, Retirement Living and Hospitals, one thing sets us apart. Care from the heart. If this sounds like you, apply for a role with Calvary today.

Please note the following:

• As part of the application process, you will be required to complete pre-employment checks which may include, but is not limited to reference checks, work rights, criminal history check, NDIS/WWCC/WWVP checks, and a health evaluation to ensure suitability for the role
• You will be required to provide evidence of immunisation as required for your role