Spiritual Support Assistant
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Description
- Please note that this is an internal position only, and is only available to current Dorothy House staff members and volunteers -
SPIRITUAL SUPPORT ASSISTANT | Band 4 £25,147 - £27,596 per annum (Pro-rata)
The duties and responsibilities will include:
- Coordinate Spiritual Support: Oversee the provision of spiritual care to patients, families, staff, and volunteers within the Dorothy House community.
- Direct Spiritual Support: Offer individual and group spiritual support and be available on call as needed.
- Provide Expert Advice: Advise the Multi-disciplinary Team (MDT) on spiritual matters across various services, including the In Patient Unit and Day Patient Services.
- Guide Volunteers: Support and guide Spiritual Support Volunteers in the absence of the Spiritual Support Lead.
- Person-Centred Care: Ensure spiritual support is tailored to individuals' personal beliefs, whether faith-based or non-faith-based.
- Manage The Beacon: Oversee the layout and use of The Beacon, a designated space for spiritual support.
- Develop Partnerships: Work with faith-based and secular groups to enhance awareness and training on end-of-life spiritual support.
- Lead Remembrance Events: Organise and lead public remembrance events in collaboration with various Dorothy House teams.
- Cultural and Religious Awareness: Maintain a deep understanding of diverse cultural and religious practices to provide inclusive support.
- Training and Evaluation: Train staff and volunteers on spiritual care, and evaluate spiritual support programs to ensure they meet community needs and best practices.
See our full detailed Job Description for more information.
HOURS OF WORK
This is a part time position working 15 Hours per week
ABOUT YOU
Please Note that only existing Dorothy House employees / volunteers are eligible to apply for this role.
Essential requirements:
- Experience of providing spiritual support and working with significant loss and life change
- Experience of working in a health and/or social care environment
- Experience of devising and delivering services or other formal expressions of spiritual belief
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to build and maintain stakeholder relationships.
- Can demonstrate provision of spiritual care to people from a variety of faiths or no faith.
- Well organised and able to effectively manage own time and workload.
- Willing and able to work flexibly including outside of normal working hours to meet the needs of the service.
Desirable requirements:
- Experience working with volunteers
If this sounds like your ideal job, then we'd love to see your application.
- Please note that this is an internal position only, and is only available to current Dorothy House staff members and volunteers -
Please note that our vacancies can close at any time once sufficient applications have been received. We therefore encourage early submission of your application.
Required skills for this position
At Dorothy House, the principles of equality, diversity and inclusivity are central to our work as an outstanding care provider and employer. They are inherent in our values where we care, we connect and we create. We recognise the diversity of the people who deliver our services and the people who receive them. We believe that by building a diverse workforce, underpinned by a culture of respect, we will create an environment where everyone will have access to receive outstanding care and support from Dorothy House, regardless of characteristic.
Our 2021 Services Review identified how we need to work differently to achieve our strategic mission to ensure that “everyone has access to outstanding palliative and end of life care” and has presented us with an opportunity to improve on the “community development” work of the past and engage differently with our communities for the benefit of our patients, carers and families. Put another way, this is our moment ‘to do things differently’ and we are embracing this through Asset Based Community Development. We expect all staff to embrace this strategy and we will provide training accordingly.