About the Role:

Unique opportunity to provide pastoral care to patients and families, at all stages of life. The patient population has diverse pastoral, spiritual and religious needs. This position will expand your spiritual assessment skills and your capacity to respond with person centred, spiritual care responses.

• Casual position - to backfill permanent staff, when required (can be for extended periods)
• Work available at Werribee Mercy Hospital and Mercy Hospital for Women
• Assess, triage and respond to diverse pastoral needs in a variety of clinical areas
• Promote holistic care by contributing positively to the multi-disciplinary team and making appropriate referrals as needed
• You will work collaboratively with the pastoral care team to respond to identified needs

About You:

• Completed at least two units of Clinical Pastoral Education or equivalent supervised pastoral care training.
• A Bachelor of Theology or relevant graduate qualifications (that is - eligible for membership of Spiritual Care Australia)
• Previous pastoral care experience in a healthcare context preferable
• Sound understanding of the scope of pastoral care for patients with ill health, in transition, and loss and bereavement at all stages of life
• Demonstrated interpersonal and communication skills to work effectively as an Allied Health clinician within a multi- disciplinary team
• A willingness to adapt, be flexible and learn a new culture

About Us:

Mercy Hospitals Victoria Ltd incorporates:

• Mercy Hospital for Women, a major public hospital and specialist referral centre for obstetric, neonatal and gynaecological needs.
• Werribee Mercy Hospital, a general hospital providing comprehensive care to the rapidly growing western suburbs of Melbourne. This hospital is currently undergoing significant expansion with a number of exciting capital projects already underway and in planning.
• Mercy Mental Health provides adult mental health services across the south west Melbourne area
• Mercy Palliative Care, a community-based palliative care service offering support in the North and West Metropolitan Region of Melbourne.
• O’Connell Family Centre, one of three early parenting centres in Victoria
• Mercy Health Albury, a major provider of subacute (general) health services in the Albury–Wodonga and surrounding areas
• Mercy Care Centre Young, a 26-bed health service providing a range of outpatient, community health and aged care services for the people of Young and surrounding regions

Mercy Health is a Catholic organisation grounded in a 2,000-year tradition of caring for others. Founded by the Sisters of Mercy, Mercy Health is made up of more than 9,500 people who provide acute and subacute hospital care, aged care, mental health programs, maternity and specialist women's health services, early parenting services, home care services and health worker training and development.

Mercy Health is proud to be recognised as an Employer of Choice for Gender Equality by the WGEA.

What We Offer:

Mercy Health recognises that many people want to work somewhere that is more than ‘just a job.’ At Mercy Health, we pride ourselves on our values-based culture, and offer a generous range of benefits to support you to maintain a healthy work/life balance. These include:

• Salary packaging benefits
• Opportunity to purchase additional leave
• Health and Wellbeing programs
• Camp Australia School Holiday Program
• Career progression and development opportunities
• A range of discounts available across a diverse portfolio of financial, healthcare, travel and other services

We focus on caring for our staff members and those important to them. We support all staff to be their authentic selves at work through Whole Self @ Mercy Health - our network group for LGBTIQ staff and allies.

At Mercy Health we pride ourselves on embracing diversity and foster an inclusive culture where individual differences are respected and celebrated. We encourage applications from people of all ages, abilities and cultural backgrounds including Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Peoples.

To be the successful candidate you must meet the position requirements as well as provide a current Police Record Check and Working with Children Check.