Chaplain - Casual - Wellington

**Casual**:

- **Application Closes 28 May 2025**:

- **Wellington - Wellington**:

- **Religious Worker**

**Chaplain - Casual - Wellington Region**
- **Support our Chaplain team to deliver pastoral and spiritual care to our Elders**:

- **Work flexibly across our Aged Care Residential Homes**:

- **Provide pastoral care and support in a multi-faith setting**

**Mō mātou - About us**

Enliven provides aged residential care to older people in the lower half of the North Island. We believe our elders should remain connected to their community and live stimulating and fulfilling lives. All our Homes embrace an elder-directed model of care called the Eden Alternative.

Enliven operates as part of Presbyterian Support Central (PSC). PSC is a not-for-profit organisation and a charity incorporated under the Charitable Trusts Act 1957.

While we operate as a separate entity to the Presbyterian Church, our name, Enliven, is a celebration of our beginnings, our heritage and the values we share. We have been delivering a variety of community based services for over 100 years. It means we have some great experience under our belt and we are proud of the work we do to support people with the services we can deliver.

**Mō te tūranga** - **About the role**

As Chaplain, you will work with the manager and the Home team in leading the provision of pastoral and spiritual care in order to support residents of all faiths, cultures and ethnicities, and their family/whānau.

The Chaplain as spiritual care specialist, educates and supports employees to provide generalist spiritual care.. The chaplain also develops collegial relationships with local faith community leaders and pastoral carers. As Chaplain you will actively seek to assist residents who wish to maintain their faith practices as they were prior to entering the Home.

You will also lead occasional specific services in the Homes, such as an annual Memorial Service, ANZAC Day, Easter, and Christmas Services with energy and passion.

As well as offering opportunities for worship you will take the lead on blessing rooms after death, offering studies and group discussions.

**Mō koe**:

- **About You**

In addition to providing pastoral and spiritual care and leadership within the Home, you will also be expected to:

- Establish regular visiting with residents, and respond to requests for visits
- Provide spiritual and religious assessment of each resident in order to contribute to the holistic care plan designed to meet the needs of the resident.
- Model safe, effective, person-centred care where there is cause to celebrate, a need to impart hope, preserve dignity, and any need for forgiveness. This includes providing support to listen to questions and explore answers, that enable a search for meaning and/or a need to resolve unfinished business.
- Engage openly and warmly with residents, employees, and their families/whanau.

You will be someone who can effectively listen to people, engage with Elders and show patience and compassion. You will be able to work as part of a team and be keen to understand how your role works alongside the other aspects of life in our residential services. You will be self-motivated, have a sunny demeanour and enjoy working with Elders and their families/whānau.

You will be physically fit and capable of walking around large Homes, kneeling next to elders, arranging furniture for services and maneuvering residents in wheelchairs.

Experience working in an aged care facility is preferred, but is not essential. You will also:

- Have a qualification in theology, ministry, religious studies, chaplaincy, or currently studying.
- Have completed at least one unit of Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) or be prepared to do so
- Belong to a mainstream denomination and have a letter of good standing from your faith community
- Have intermediate computer literacy

**What’s in it for me?**

You inherit a colourful community of people with which to share your talents and skill with as a Chaplain.

You get to live out your faith in a wonderful context that is all about supporting older adults to live well, embrace life, and enjoy it

Our Wellington Homes provide a place of connection, compassion and understanding, and our services cover rest home, hospital and dementia care and we are proud to be able to create a family environment that is warm and welcoming for all who spend time with us.