• Permanent full-time position
• Increase fortnight take-home pay with access to $15,900 salary packaging benefits!
• 10% gap discount for childcare services with Uniting Early Learning

About the opportunity

As the Specialist Pastoral Care Worker, you will play a pivotal role in supporting the emotional and spiritual needs of our team members. Initially, your focus will be on providing tailored support to transgender, gender diverse, and non-binary (TGDNB) identifying community members within Uniting. This will include developing trusted relationships, offering group programs, and facilitating individual pastoral care sessions based on best-practice methodologies and an intersectional approach.

In addition to your work with TGDNB individuals, you will extend your expertise to support the broader LGBTQIA+ community within Uniting. As part of our commitment to equity, you will also engage with other priority cohorts in our workforce, ensuring that all members feel affirmed, valued, and empowered for personal and spiritual growth.

What’s on offer

Join an organisation where we don’t just provide a service. We use our connections, our size, our scale, and our knowledge to push into places where we feel like we should be doing more.

In addition to receiving a salary and superannuation, you’ll also receive 17.5% leave loading and an ability to increase your take-home pay by accessing up to $15,900 in salary packaging benefits.

Paid parental leave (10 weeks) is available for eligible employees.

Receive 10% discount on the childcare subsidy gap fee when using a Uniting Early Learning service or centre.

About you

You will have at a minimum a Diploma level in Social Work, Youth Work, Counselling or Community Services, with a focus on working with LGBTQIA+ communities, or industry equivalent. Certificate IV or higher in Chaplaincy and Pastoral Care.

You will also have:

• Experience working in trauma-informed pastoral care / counselling practice
• Experience developing, implementing and evaluating models of group pastoral care and support and wellbeing among vulnerable communities
• Experience working in community service organisation will be highly regarded

Click here to view the full position description.

How to Apply

Click "Apply Now" to submit your interest and we’ll be in touch shortly. We’ll be reviewing applications as they come through as we’re keen to engage with someone.

Please include the below documents in your application:

• Cover Letter (1 page outlining your suitability according to the position description)
• Current Resume (no more than 3 pages)

If you have questions about the opportunity, please contact Cheryl Lawrie – Manager, Mission & Ethos on 0468 752 639.

About Uniting

At Uniting we are passionate about working together to inspire people, enliven communities and confront injustice. We have a 5,000 strong workforce of employees and volunteers who deliver a diverse range of services across Victoria and Tasmania.

Visit us: www.vt.uniting.org

Uniting is a child safe organisation and is committed in everyday practice to ensure the safety and wellbeing of all children, at all times. As a ‘child safe’ organisation, employment with Uniting is subject to a satisfactory national (and international where relevant) police check and relevant Working with Children Check in your State prior to commencement of any paid or unpaid work and/or participation in any service or undertaking.

Uniting is also committed to equal opportunity and ensuring the workplace is reflective of the community. We encourage people from different backgrounds to apply, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds and people with a disability.