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📃 This volunteer opportunity will help to deliver Spiritual Care, relevant and responsive in times of crisis. 

Chaplaincy volunteers provide spiritual and pastoral support to all patients, their families, and staff, regardless of faith or belief. The chaplaincy role focuses on compassionate listening and comfort without proselytising. They may facilitate meaningful rituals like prayers or meditations to nurture spiritual well-being. Volunteers assist the Chaplains by visiting patients, engaging with families, and supporting staff throughout their work. 

📍Location: Public Hospitals, Queensland 

👉🏼 About Us: The chaplaincy working environment is both intense and rewarding, deeply rooted in the realities of patient care and emotional support. Chaplains operate in a dynamic atmosphere often filled with urgency, where each moment can bring new challenges and opportunities to provide care. This environment demands resilience, emotional intelligence, and the ability to adapt to challenges. It is a place where meaningful differences are made, and lives are profoundly impacted. 

✅ What you’ll be doing: 

🎁 What’s in it for you? 

🕑 Times: Negotiable    

💍 Commitment: Get started from as little as 1-2 hours fortnightly 

📅 Days: Weekdays 

☑️ Skills and experience important for this role include: 

▪️ Confident in initiating spiritual care relationships with people from a diversity of backgrounds. 

▪️ Making spiritual care assessments and communicate this with chaplains 

▪️ Interpersonal skills that promote collegiality, harmony, and a positive working environment. 

▪️ Professional demeanour in all dealings with patients, families, staff, and the general public. 

▪️ Ability to maintain professional confidentiality - the Spiritual Care practitioner must read and sign a Privacy and Confidentiality Agreement. 

▪️ Ability to collaborate with other members of the multidisciplinary health care team as well 

as with spiritual care colleagues. 

▪️ Ability to receive and utilise supervision. 

☑️ We’ll need to do the following checks before you start: 

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UnitingCare values diversity in our organisation and we have some principles in place that will help to promote both inclusion and access.  If you have any other accessibility requirements, please discuss these at the time of the interview