🙏🏼 Pastoral Care (Queensland)
💙 Volunteer to change lives. Yours included.
This volunteer opportunity will help to provide Pastoral Care to the people we serve by encompassing the rich traditions of compassionate care and being alongside people, that has been built on the example of Jesus for over 2000 years.
Pastoral Care centres on spiritual well-being, embracing healing, guidance, active listening, reconciliation, compassionate support, nurturing, and sustaining individuals within their faith-specific context. Volunteers extend Pastoral Care to elderly and frail aged residents, their families, and caregivers, including those facing dementia.
As a volunteer, you'll work under the guidance, training, and ongoing mentorship of a BlueCare Chaplain, contributing to a friendly, supportive, and professional Pastoral Care Team. Your role involves assisting individuals in discovering meaning, purpose, and connectedness through a faith-specific framework.
🌟 Be part of a welcoming and diverse volunteer teams that reflects the communities we serve. We are committed to supporting people to live life in all its fullness by valuing and respecting the unique experiences, perspectives, and contributions of every person, and by creating an inclusive, accessible, and supportive environment where everyone feels they belong. 🌟
✅ What you’ll be doing:
- General visitation with residents to have meaningful conversations
- Provide prayer when requested
- Lead, support and attend Chapel Services ️- Facilitate small groups in prayer & bible study️
- Lead spiritual care practices eg: relaxation, meditation, sacraments, rituals, and liturgies that are framed within a person's faith, heritage and faith community ️
- The "Tales from the Heart" program
🎁 What’s in it for you?
- ️Experience the joy of making a meaningful difference
- ️Build, maintain or contribute specialised skill sets
- ️Enjoy social interaction with others
☑️ Skills and experience important for this role include:
- Effective Communication Skills: Ability to communicate respectfully and courteously with individuals from diverse backgrounds and the frail aged.
- Empathetic Engagement: Ability to empathize and provide support by utilizing active listening and reflective skills.
🎓 Training:
Willingness to complete training relevant to the role, including:
- CARE Essentials Course (6 weeks, one evening per week, online training) overseen by a BlueCare Chaplain.
- CARE Matters Course with mentoring from a BlueCare Chaplain.
♿ This role is accessible for people using:
- A wheelchair or mobility device
- Accessible toilets
Child safe, Child friendly
UnitingCare is committed to being a Child Safe, Child Friendly organisation and will:
▪ Provide welcoming, safe and nurturing services for children
▪ Implement measures to prevent child abuse and neglect within our services
▪ Appropriately and immediately address child abuse and neglect if it does occur
▪ Abide by the Child Safe Standards and adhere to the Reportable Conduct Scheme
Commitment to Safeguarding
We are committed in creating services and workplaces that are welcoming and safe for every person. We work together to protect children, young people, adults and the elderly from harm within our services and the communities we support. We speak up for their safety to ensure their voices are heard. Our recruitment and workplace practices reflect our dedication in preventing abuse, harm and exploitation across UnitingCare.
️❤️ UnitingCare’s Diversity, Inclusion, and Child Safety Statement ❤️
*UnitingCare is committed to child-safe practices and to building a volunteer workforce that reflects the diverse communities we serve. We value cultural knowledge and lived experience, and we strongly encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to apply. To ensure our team mirrors the diversity of the children in our care, We actively invite
volunteers from all backgrounds, including young people (15–24 years), people from Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) backgrounds, people with disability, LGBTQIA+ individuals, and older people seeking purpose and connection.*
UnitingCare is committed to equitable access and will provide reasonable adjustments to support all applicants. Please advise us of any accessibility requirements at the time of your interview.
💙 Trusted for generations. Iconic in Queensland, officially trusted by Australia. We’re an award-winning care provider, recognised as Australia’s Most Trusted Brand in Queensland for home care and residential care services. It’s a testament to both the quality of our work and the relationships we’ve built since 1953.