Chaplain - St. Catharines, Canada - Primacare Living Solutions - Henley House

Description

• Provides a comprehensive ministry of religious and spiritual pastoral care to residents, families, staff and meaningful others by ensuring ongoing pastoral visitation and spiritual counselling within the home's mission statement and allocated resources
• Ensures that the best possible spiritual care is provided to the home residents and staff
• Assists and supports staff with ethical issues such as living will and DRN
• Arranges and participates in appropriate religious rites for residents, their families, friends, home and community, especially at times of death
• Maintains good relations with community faith groups and their leaders, providing resident care through orientation, support and counselling
• Conducts or provides resources to community groups and volunteers to provide regularly scheduled memorial services
• Provides religious services to meet the needs of the cognitively impaired
• Directly or through volunteer services, orientates volunteers, students, community clergy and faith leaders
• Documents on the resident health record in compliance with established standards and legislative requirements
• As an interdisciplinary team member, the chaplain maintains a good working relationship with other healthcare professionals, community faith groups and volunteers

• Communication: listening, oral, presentation, written in English
• Demonstrated empathy for seniors
• Listening and reflection
• Problem solving

• 1 year experience in long term care home
• Authorized Pastoral care clinician in his or her own faith tradition and endorsed by his or her own faith tradition
• Graduate from a theological college at the post graduate level
• Minimum of 2 advanced units from the Canadian Association for Pastoral Practices and Educations
• A member of good standing in his or her own faith community
• Willingness to work beyond common working hours
• 1 year in this job to reach competency

• 8 hour shift