Job description
JOB TITLE:Spiritual Care Assistant
CONTRACT TYPE:12 Month Fixed Term Contract
DEPARTMENT:Wellbeing Services
HOURS: 22.5 per week
SALARY: £14,914.20 - £17,391.60 per annum (dependent on experience)
CLOSING DATE:10 May 2023
INTERVIEW DATE:16 May 2023
Are you an enthusiastic, dynamic and highly motivated individual looking for your next challenge? We have an exciting opportunity to join our friendly Wellbeing Team.
The StCH Wellbeing Service comprises of bereavement support, counselling, social work, spiritual support, welfare support and carer support. These services are provided in community and outpatient settings, and the inpatient unit.
The Spiritual Care Assistant will play an integral role in supporting the hospice with rituals and activities which are vital for the transition to our new hospice site in Autumn 2023.
Our community provides a vivid blend of cultural, religious and spiritual diversity offering a fantastic opportunity to meet, and learn from the diverse communities we support. We are committed to ensuring that non-religious people also have access to pastoral support which reflects their worldview.
Please note, the successful candidate must have a full driving licence.
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When you join St Catherines, youll be joining a supportive team all working towards a big ambition: to help everyone face death informed, supported and pain free. If that sounds like something youd find fulfilling, please apply today.
Employees at St Catherines Hospice can enjoy a variety of benefits including:
- 25 days holiday, increasing with length of service to 30 days + public holidays
- Option to buy or sell up to 1 week of annual leave
- Day off for volunteering
- Day off for moving house
- Blue Light Card
- Cycle to work scheme
- Eye test vouchers
- Generous Pension Up to 9% employer contributions or honour of NHS pension
- Enhanced maternity/adoption pay
- Life Assurance 4x basic salary
- Pay enhancement of unsocial hours
- Flu Jabs
- Counselling Offering
- Discounted Gym
- Schwartz rounds
- Wellbeing Supervision (aka clinical supervision)
- Career pathway and progression
If this role sounds like it could be for you, please apply now.
Please upload either your CV or St Catherine's Hospice application form where it asks you to upload your resume, there is no need to complete both.
If you don't have a CV and would like to submit an application form, this can be found here.
Whilst it is not yet a requirement to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19, we encourage all applicants to be fully vaccinated as this may be a requirement of the role going forward.
This role is subject to a Enhanced DBS check. By applying you are confirming you have read the Enhanced Check Privacy Policy for applicants https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dbs-privacy-policies and understand how DBS will process my personal data and the options available to me for submitting an application.
We are located in Malthouse Road, Crawley, West Sussex, which is within commuting distance from Brighton and London and just a 5-minute walk from Crawley railway station. In Autumn of 2023 we will be relocating to Pease Pottage where this role will then be based.