Chaplain

**Req ID**:181747**
**Company: Nova Scotia Health**
**Location**:Western** **Zone, **Valley Regional Hospital**
**Department**:OPWZ Pastoral Care**
**Type of Employment**:Temporary** **Hourly FT short-assignment** **(**100%** **FTE) x **1** **position(s)**
**Status: MGMT/NON-Union** **Management/Non Union** Position**
**Posting Closing Date**:7-Jun-24**

Nova Scotia Health is the largest provider of health services in Nova Scotia, with some specialized services also offered to clients throughout Atlantic Canada. We’re on a mission to achieve excellence in health, healing and learning through working together, which is reflected in the hospitals, health centres and community-based programs we operate across the province. Our passionate team of professionals provides a variety of high-quality inpatient and outpatient services including academic, tertiary, and quaternary care, as well as continuing care, primary health care, public health, and mental health and addictions. Join a diverse team of innovators, collaborators and creative thinkers today.

**About the Opportunity**:
The Chaplain of Spiritual & Religious Care is an integral member of the team providing services to clients, their families, and staff. The primary focus of the position is to restore and promote spiritual and religious well-being. Services are delivered through a continuum of care consisting of spiritual and religious interventions, education, group activities, community integration, and health promotion/prevention.

The primary focus of Spiritual and Religious Care is the use of various spiritual modalities to contribute to the individual's recovery. The Chaplain participates in appropriate committees and other interdisciplinary functions, maintains working relationships with faith groups in the community, and with the provincial Spiritual & Religious Care team.

**About You**:
We would love to hear from you if you have the following:

- Graduate of a Masters of Divinity or equivalent
- Current registration or eligible for registration with Canadian Association for Spiritual Care
- Three (3) years of Chaplin experience within a health-care setting with experience in the areas of oncology and palliative care an asset
- Experience counseling individuals through loss and grief
- Demonstrated strong interpersonal, communication, and decision-making skills
- Competencies in other languages an asset, French preferred
- Successful external applicants are required to provide a criminal record check (including Vulnerable Sector Search) to People Services before starting employment and assume any associated costs as a condition of employment.

Please ensure your resume is up to date and includes all relevant education, experience, training, and certifications.

**Hours**:

- Short assignment, Full-time / 1.0 FTE / 70 Hours Bi-weekly
- Approximately 5 months

**Compensation and Incentives**:
$37.61- $47.01 Hourly

**Once You've Applied**

Thank you for your interest in this position. Only those applicants selected for an interview will be contacted.

This is a Management/Non Union bargaining unit position. Preference is given to bargaining unit employees for unionized positions. Employees are encouraged to view their seniority hours and dates in their SuccessFactors online profile. Successful applicants changing unions, bargaining units or employment status, are advised to seek clarification regarding their seniority, benefits, and vacation entitlement and/or usage, prior to accepting the position.

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