💬🕊️Pastoral Care Volunteer, Community Home Visits, Blacktown NSW
HammondCare pastoral care volunteers have an opportunity to support the spiritual and emotional needs of elderly clients living in their home 🌿💛.
As a pastoral care volunteer, you’ll be actively involved with a local Christian church 🤝, offering comfort, presence, and hope to those who need it most 🕊️✨.
Can you offer a listening ear and a prayerful heart to someone longing to be heard?💛
We are seeking a Pastoral Care Volunteer to visit an elderly client living at home in Blacktown. She enjoys listening to music on YouTube, watching TV shows, and playing games on her phone. She also appreciates the value of having someone to chat with and share time together. Previously worked in a shirt factory, she also loves cricket, football and cowboy movies. Lives in her childhood home, would love someone to come and read the Bible together, pray together, sing hymns and serve communion. She will benefit from having a pastoral care volunteer visit her.
You’ll supplement and complement the work of our HammondCare At Home Pastoral Care Coordinator, and under their direction you may:
- Support people to meet their spiritual needs
- Nurture spiritual development
Skills required for this role:
- High level of interpersonal skills, including strong empathy and listening skills.
- Pastoral Care training for example Chaplaincy, Clinical Pastoral Education, or you could attend HammondCare pastoral care training- Spiritual Care Series, in preparation to becoming a pastoral care volunteer.
Your impact
Volunteering along side Pastoral Care can be a rewarding experience, both for the person you visit as well as yourself. Regular visits from volunteers can help to improve quality of life and help people feel less isolated.
HammondCare
HammondCare is an independent Christian charity and we're passionate about improving the quality of life for people in need. We have a wonderful group of volunteers that partner with us to enhance the lives of people cared for by HammondCare.
Further information
For more information about volunteering at HammondCare, click the apply button below and our friendly Volunteer Recruitment Coordinator Dani will give you a call.