Chaplain
Primacare™ Living Solutions is a privately held Canadian long-term care operator based in Toronto. We put people first by delivering exceptional care and fostering a progressive, supportive workplace. As an accredited member of CARF and OLTCA, we lead innovative approaches to senior living. Building on the Meaningful Care Matters® Butterfly Model, we have advanced dementia care through Albert’s Journey—a program that blends person-centred practices, family engagement, and tools like ALL-B, our AI assistant. The program integrates leading frameworks (DementiAbility, GPA, U-First, PIECES) and incorporates insights from The Albert Project, our VR research demonstrating clinically significant benefits for residents with moderate to severe dementia. Together, these innovations reduce documentation time, standardize best practices, and support dignified, emotion-focused care for residents with dementia and responsive behaviours.
What We Offer!
· a work environment that is respectful, supportive, and safe
· access to professional development training and mentoring opportunities
· competitive compensation
· Benefits and RRSP plan
Your Opportunity!
Reporting to the Life Enrichment Manager, the Chaplain is responsible for ensuring resident centered spiritual services are available to ensure that the needs and preferences of the residents are being met.
Key Responsibilities and Skills:
· Provides a comprehensive ministry of religious and spiritual pastoral care to residents, families, staff and meaningful others by ensuring ongoing pastoral visitation and spiritual counselling within the home's mission statement and allocated resources
· Ensures that the best possible spiritual care is provided to the home residents and staff
· Assists and supports staff with ethical issues such as living will and DRN
· Arranges and participates in appropriate religious rites for residents, their families, friends, home and community, especially at times of death
· Maintains good relations with community faith groups and their leaders, providing resident care through orientation, support and counselling
· Conducts or provides resources to community groups and volunteers to provide regularly scheduled memorial services
· Provides religious services to meet the needs of the cognitively impaired
· Directly or through volunteer services, orientates volunteers, students, community clergy and faith leaders
· Documents on the resident health record in compliance with established standards and legislative requirements
· Communication: listening, oral, presentation, written in English
· Demonstrated empathy for seniors
· Listening and reflection
· Problem solving
Qualifications:
· 1 year experience in Long Term Care setting
· Authorized Pastoral care clinician in his or her own faith tradition and endorsed by his or her own faith tradition
· Graduate from a theological college at the post graduate level
· Minimum of 2 advanced units from the Canadian Association for Pastoral Practices and Educations
· A member of good standing in his or her own faith community
· Willingness to work beyond common working hours
· 1 year in this job to reach competency
· Proof of full immunization (2 doses) against COVID-19
· A Criminal Records and Vulnerable Sector Screening check to the satisfaction of Primacare™ Living Solutions.
Primacare Living Solutions Inc. is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes applications from all interested parties. We are pleased to accommodate individual needs of job applicants throughout the recruitment and selection process in accordance with the Ontario Human Rights Code and the Accessibility of Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2005 (AODA). If you require accommodation at any time throughout the recruitment process, please speak with the Hiring Manager.
This posting is for a current vacancy.
Artificial intelligence (AI) may be used as part of the applicant screening process.
Job Type: Part-time
Pay: $28.00 per hour
Application question(s):
- Have you completed post-secondary education in theology, divinity, pastoral ministry, spiritual care, or a related field
Experience:
- providing spiritual care : 1 year (required)
Work Location: In person
