Spiritual and Pastoral Care Coordinator Anglicare SQ

JOB DESCRIPTION

For over 150 years, Anglicare SQ has assisted Queenslanders in need. We offer a comprehensive, integrated range of community services that comprises Community Aged Care, Residential Aged Care, Mental Health Wellbeing and Children, Youth and Families.

In 2022 Anglicare Southern Queensland’s impact on the community included:

  • Over 45,000 Queenslanders supported
  • 2.149 million hours of Home and Community support provided.
  • Over 14,000 hours of counselling to young people and families.
  • 383,316 nights of care for children and young people.
  • Facilitated over 1,100 counselling sessions every month.
  • 42,181 hours of support for people experiencing homelessness.


The Opportunity to join our Team and make a difference

As a Spiritual and Pastoral Care Coordinator, your role will be to coordinate and ensure the provision of spiritual and pastoral care within the Anglicare’s service in that area, and ensuring that accessible, appropriate and timely spiritual and pastoral resources are available.

This role is based in Logan and will work Part Time with a 32 Hour Fortnight.

Your role in supporting Anglicare will include

  • Provision of pastoral support to clients, staff, and volunteers of Anglicare within professional scope.
  • Manage the scheduling of your client visits in line with service and client requirements.
  • Liaise with management, staff and clients to provide accessible, appropriate and timely pastoral and spiritual care.
  • In conjunction with the managers, implement routines and activities to provide reliable and effective pastoral and spiritual care coverage.
  • Provide professional/operational supervision to Pastoral Care volunteers.
  • Coordinate religious, spiritual and pastoral care providers and volunteers to ensure a seamless single point of contact (POC) for all religious, spiritual and pastoral care activities.
  • In consultation, actively seek for appropriate volunteer support, especially amongst local Christian communities.
  • Arrange for access to appropriate ongoing training and skill enhancement for the pastoral care team.
  • Promote the work of the spiritual and pastoral care team within Anglicare and in the local community.

What you will bring to the role

  • Minimum of one Basic Unit of Clinical Pastoral Education or Cert IV Chaplaincy and Pastoral Care or equivalent.
  • Demonstrated participation within a local Christian Community.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
  • Demonstrated sense of one’s own spiritual identity and a history of appropriate regard for others.
  • Ability to manage and provide appropriate pastoral care volunteer team co-ordination.
  • Demonstrated ability to follow organisational and business process.
  • Understanding of the Aged Care Act and relevant legislative and regulatory requirements relating to the Aged Care and Disability Sectors.
  • Experience in a pastoral care/hospital/community care setting (desired).


Successful candidates will also need to b able to provide a National Police Certificate, Covid Vaccination Certificate and complete a Pre Placement Health Questionnaire.

Why Join Anglicare?

  • Join a respected Not For Profit and make a real impact in your role to assist Queenslanders in need.
  • Great flexibility, work-life balance, flexible hours and hybrid work from home (WFH) model.
  • Salary Packaging – package up to $15,900 per year tax free! This means you can pay for items such as Rent, Mortgage, Credit Cards, Utilities, School Tuition and more out of your salary before tax!
  • In addition to your tax-free benefit, you can also use up to $2,650 of your pre-tax income to pay for entertainment expenses (meals, venue hire, holiday accommodation etc.)  
  • Enjoy the potential tax savings of a Novated Car Lease.
  • Employee Discounts at some of Australia’s leading retailers.
  • 6% Bupa Health Insurance Discount.
  • Ongoing training and support with hundreds of free online courses on our learning management system.
  • Career Opportunities – join a company who aim to promote from within to fill new roles with our internal-only Job Board.
  • Opportunities to purchase additional annual leave.
  • Pastoral Care Support & Employee Assistance Programs.
  • Free annual Flu vaccinations.


Anglicare is committed to building an inclusive and diverse workforce and encourages applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, those from cultural and linguistically diverse backgrounds, LGBTIQ+ communities, people with disabilities and people with a lived experience of mental ill health. We promote a child-safe environment and are committed to providing on-going care and protection.  


Interested?

Click apply and send us your current resume. 

For further information please contact
Daniel Walsh – Corporate Recruitment Advisor

Email: [email protected]

Anglicare Southern Queensland is committed to the health and safety of our workforce. Shortlisted Applicants will be asked to complete a Pre-Employment Assessments that requests the sharing of information regarding pre-existing injuries, illnesses or conditions that could reasonably be aggravated by performing the duties of this position.

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