Pastoral Carer

• Increase your take home pay with salary sacrifice – up to $18,550 per annum tax free!
• Competitive remuneration │ Employee Assistance Program
• Permanent Part-Time role

Mercy Community Aged Care Townsville is a Catholic ministry continuing God’s mission of mercy – compassionately inspiring and supporting people to hopeful, connected lives within inclusive communities. Our residential facility offers a range of services and believe a big part of what we do is to help our residents flourish, knowing what is important to them and their individual needs.

About your role:

Working across our two sites in Townsville (Loreto Aged Care facility and Villa McAuley Retirement Village, you will provide Pastoral Care and support to our residents to meet their sacramental, spiritual, psychological & social care needs, you will:

• Liaise regularly with the General Manager Mission Integration for Pastoral Care supervision and relevant training.
• Liaise with the facility manager for general oversight of care minutes in relation to holistic care, for each resident.
• Liaise with volunteer team to ensure the needs of the resident’s are identified and suitable support responses are in place.
• Support new residents to the facility including providing a Pastoral Care Assessment, Plan and progress notes.
• Contribute to case notes, palliative & end of live care including support and guidance to residents and families.
• Collaborate with the pastoral Care team in preparation and facilitation of Memorial and Thanksgiving services.
• Maintain confidentiality & provide effective service that meets the needs of all residents from culturally linguistic and diverse backgrounds.

About you:

You’ll present with:

• Relevant qualifications in Pastoral Care such as Clinical Pastoral Education, Theology and/or Spirituality and/or Counselling or the willingness to gain.
• Knowledge & understanding of the principles of the Catholic teaching, tradition & ecumenism.
• Experience in providing pastoral care in a Catholic Health or Aged Care setting.
• Ideally be an accredited Eucharistic Minister in the Catholic tradition or be prepared to become one.
• Queensland Provisional Green or above drivers Licence

Why choose Mercy Community?

Mercy Community appreciates the important work that each person contributes to the success of our programs and services. Being part of the Mercy team, means you have access to some fantastic benefits, such as:

• Provide the opportunity to increase your take home pay, through the use of salary sacrificing and other packaging benefits -up to $18,550 per annum is available to take advantage of!
• Provide access to novated leases for a vehicle to help reduce your taxable income.
• Paid compliance checks.
• Provide you and your immediate family free, professional and confidential counselling services. This includes specialised First Nations counsellors.
• Supportive team culture.
• Discounted gym and other leisure/lifestyle membership.
• Corporate health fund premium discounts.

Depending on your role, you may also be eligible:

• For annual influenza and/or other vaccination reimbursements.
• To receive pay bonus’ of $500 for successful employee referrals.
• To cash out or purchase annual leave

We also ensure all our employees have access to a wide variety of excellent learning and development tools to continue your professional and personal development. This includes making sure you have access to plenty of other career pathways and opportunities in the broader Disability Supports programs, or in other programs and services across Mercy.

 How to apply:

We are a welcoming and inclusive organisation and encourage everyone from all cultural backgrounds to apply. If we sound like the right organisation for you and you would like to find out more, simply click on the following link – https://mercycs.applynow.net.au/jobs/MCS11256, attach your resume, answer some quick questions, and your application will be on its way.

Thank you for your interest in working with us, and we hope to be in contact with you soon.

Mercy Community is a Catholic not-for-profit, compassionately inspiring and supporting people to live hopeful, connected lives within inclusive communities. We support families and young people, people living with a disability, and older people, and live by our values of Compassion, Integrity, Dignity and Empowerment.

 We have been providing services and support for over 150 years and our team operates across a network that encompasses urban, rural and remote communities. Please visit our website to find out more about our dedicated team and the work we do.

 Mercy is committed to Safeguarding – taking actions to promote and ensure the welfare of children and adults at risk, protect them from abuse or neglect and supporting an awareness of whole community responsibility to help and protect all in need.

 Mercy Community has implemented a new COVID-19 Vaccination Policy in Australia that requires all new Mercy Community hires to show proof of up-to-date vaccinations from COVID-19.

 Please note: Stated referees may be contacted throughout the short-listing process.

Successful candidates are responsible for their own relocation expenses. We are seeking to fill this role as soon as possible, therefore selection processes will be undertaken while the campaign is open with the view that it will be closed as soon as a suitable candidate has accepted an offer of employment.