Chaplain

**JOB DESCRIPTION**

**Position: Chaplain**

**Department: Full Care**

**Category: ECCS Exempt**

**Reports To: Director of Full care**

**Date: 2025**

**Job Summary**:
Working from a Christian Faith based perspective, the Chaplain responds with compassion and inclusiveness to the spiritual health needs identified by residents, their families, and staff through a process of assessment and care. Over intentional relationship building the Chaplain comes along side to assist individuals to live well and, through end-of-life care, provide support that contributes to dying well. As part of a multi-disciplinary team, the Chaplain is skilled in offering existential, spiritual, and religious resident care across beliefs, cultural perspectives, and practices.

**Qualifications and Requirements**:

- Training in Theology, Counselling, Social Work, or related discipline.
- Education or experience relevant to spiritual care within a multicultural and faith setting.
- Experience addressing the needs of residents and families encountering crisis, disability, loss, bereavement, and end-of-life.
- Training and/or experience working with older adults and individuals living with a variety of conditions and cognitive impairments included dementia.
- Solid understanding and adherence to Christian theology and principles.

**Skills and Abilities**:

- Willingness to embrace Elim’s Mission Statements.
- Sensitivity and ability to work with residents and families with diverse values, beliefs, and backgrounds (socio-economic, ethnic, cultural, spiritual, etc.).
- Genuine sensitivity and empathy towards individuals and their families coping with the stresses of full care and end of life.
- Demonstrated resident centered approach to care.
- Interpersonal skills with the ability to maintain collaborative relationships with members of the interdisciplinary team.
- Excellent active listening skills, verbal, and written communication skills,
- Self-direction and independent decision making, sound clinical judgement and critical thinking skills; with a demonstrated ability to function effectively within a dynamic and challenging environment.
- Able to generate rapport rapidly and with a wide diversity of residents and those close to them.
- Committed to personal, physical, spiritual, emotional, and intellectual well - being and development.
- Strong understanding and compliance with the principles and practice of confidentiality.
- Clear understanding of the palliative care philosophy and end of life care at Elim Village.
- Able to uphold ethical and professional standards and conduct themselves in a manner that upholds the values, standards of care and heritage of Elim Village.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Maintain an active and visible role within the Full Care department at Elim Village
- Builds relationships by coming alongside residents and families in a variety of areas but not limited to: emotional and spiritual wellbeing, dealing with issues of death and dying, spiritual/emotional distress, adaptation to the illness, social functioning, advocacy issues and communication.
- Works closely with team members in handling situations requiring grief support and (or) spiritual/emotional support.
- Represents the Pastoral team in weekly resident care conference meetings preparing and providing a spiritual overview and assessment for each resident participant.
- Builds relationships by coming alongside fellow staff members and volunteers providing emotional and spiritual support as needed and requested.
- Attends the Full Care Core Team meetings
- Acts as an ad hoc resource and support for the care team and with their own self-care and needs, as health care providers.
- As able, participates as part of the Pastoral team in programming and events.
- Other duties such as, but not limited to; documentation, record keeping is required for operational purposes

**Working Conditions**:

- Employee must be able to work on-the-job site
- This position may require availability for some weekends

**Responsibilities to Health and Safety**:

- Is a competent person as defined by the Occupational Health and Safety Act.
- Is knowledgeable of employee responsibilities and follows all health and safety policies and procedures.
- Is alert to, remedies, or promptly reports all actual or potential hazardous situations to the appropriate personnel, i.e. maintenance

**Pay**:

- ** CA$36.99-CA$41.85 per hour