Job Description
Chaplain
Position Type: Regular Full-time
Location: East Campus
Position Summary
This a fulltime position that provides Christian-based spiritual care services to clients and staff of designated CS(C) programs.
Hours/Schedule
Regular full-time - 40 hours per week; Monday to Friday: 8:30 am - 5:00 pm.
May be required to work on weekends and evenings.
Although this position will be for East campus, initially the hours will be between both East campus and Centre of Hope for training purposes.
What you will be doing in your role
- Intentionally connects with clients, staff, and volunteers for the purpose of building relationships and providing spiritual care.
- Provides spiritual & faith guidance for clients, staff, and volunteers as appropriate and when requested.
- Provides spiritual presence, and engages in spiritual & faith conversations, crisis support, spiritual assessments and care plans for clients and staff.
- Prepares and provides Christian rituals e.g., worship services, memorial and funeral services, Lent, Easter, Christmas; provides connections to other spiritual & faith communities for clients as requested.
- Prepares and provides Spiritual Programs for clients and staff, i.e., services, bible studies, devotions, and support groups.
- Prepares and submits reports as per required timelines, including monthly statistical reports, monthly program reports, and program evaluations and assessments; participates in the Salvation Army Accreditation Process.
- May participate with the Salvation Army Emergency and Disaster Services providing specialized spiritual services and provision for individuals or communities in distress as approved by ED (Executive Director).
- Provides Critical Incident Stress Management for departments of the Salvation Army Community Services Calgary, as required.
Qualifications and Education requirements:
*NOTE: For some jobs, you may be required to provide validated educational documentation.
Education/Certifications:
- Certificate of Chaplaincy and Spiritual Care from Booth University College or other equivalent program approved by The Salvation Army.
- Police Information Check (PIC) with Vulnerable Sector Search.
- Child Intervention Check if working with children or in an environment with children.
- Peer and Group Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM).
Experience:
- At least two years of prior related experience in providing emotional and spiritual support in relevant settings.
- Frontline experience with clients in a social service environment.
Required Skills/Knowledge:
- Strong sense of integrity and confidentiality with professional ethics and a balanced sense of fairness and flexibility; knowledge of and ability to apply Motivational Interviewing skills.
- Ability to connect with a diverse population. Excellent communication skills (verbal/written); able to use MSOffice 365 (Excel, TEAMS, Word, Outlook, PPT) to prepare/present information.
- Proven ability to provide meaningful, informed spiritual and emotional care to individuals in distress and for the community.
- Maintain calm and consistent manner in dealing with individuals in crisis; demonstrate excellence in non-violent intervention strategies; demonstrate thorough understanding of crisis intervention; ability to re-establish relationship with individuals, post- crisis.
- Exemplify highly ethical standards of conduct; knowledge, understanding, and a commitment to equity, diversity, and inclusion.
Please apply by sending a resume to CSCalgary.IndeedResumes@salvationarmy.ca using competition # CHP080324 in your email subject line.
The Salvation Army will provide reasonable accommodation upon request. Please let us know if you have a need for any accommodation.
We thank all applicants and will contact candidates selected for next steps.
Job Type: Full-time
Benefits:
- Dental care
- Disability insurance
- Employee assistance program
- Extended health care
- Life insurance
- On-site parking
- Paid time off
- RRSP match
- Vision care
Flexible Language Requirement:
- French not required
Schedule:
- 8 hour shift
- Monday to Friday
Work Location: In person
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