Spiritual Care Services

What is Spiritual Care?

Spiritual care also known as Pastoral Care is a kind, calm, carrying, compassionate, empathetic and supportive presence during difficult times. This includes moments of vulnerability, transition, illness, or grief.

At GV Health, the spiritual care service helps provide holistic, person-centred health care. This service values each person’s unique spiritual dimension and needs. Spiritual Care is available to all at GV Health regardless of faith, religion or beliefs.                        

Are you feeling alone, overwhelmed, vulnerable, worried, in pain, doubtful or exploring the purpose of life. Maybe you just want to have a chat or needing a space to process?              

Spiritual care services can help.

Our Team

At GV Health, our Spiritual Care Team is led by a skilled Professional Clinical Spiritual Carer. Our Spiritual Carers are trained and qualified.

They respond to your spiritual care needs with compassion, empathy and respect. They listen to you without judgement and honour your privacy, confidentiality, culture, values, identity, dignity, rights, and choice.

Spiritual Care Services

• Providing a listening and reassuring presence
• Providing wellbeing support
• Holding a safe space to process difficult emotions and situations
• Coordinating Religious based Spiritual Care needs – prayer and rituals
• Facilitating access to Spiritual resources – including religious text
• Responding to loss by providing grief support

Benefits of Spiritual Care

• Strengthens the human spirit as part of a holistic approach
• Comfort, peace and emotional support
• Ease stress, and anxiety
• Enhance coping ability
• Encourages hope, meaning and connection
• Supports faith-based values, prayer, ritual and texts
• Improves your relationships and wellbeing
• Beneficial when used with other medical treatments

Who Can Access Spiritual Care?

• Patients
• Residents
• Clients
• Families
• Staff
• Carers
• Support Team

Location

Spiritual Care Team, Goulburn Valley Health, 20 Graham Street, Shepparton, 3630

The Sanctuary       

GV Health has a Multifaith Room at the Graham St Campus. This room is a safe space for spiritual care and religious practices.

How to Access Spiritual Care    

• Speak to any staff member to arrange a consultation
• Call: 1800 222 582 (Option 4)