751 Care Team Member, Nanaimo BC

LE002 Marketplace Chaplains Canada; Nanaimo; Hybrid; CAD 25,000 - 33,000; Part time

Job summary

Marketplace Care Canada is seeking a Part-Time Care Team Member for Nanaimo, BC, to support employees and their families through faith-based ministry.

This remote field role involves weekly visits to client worksites, compassionate listening, confidential pastoral conversations, and collaboration with company leadership.

Applicants must embrace Christian values, demonstrate spiritual maturity, and provide discreet, empathetic support across diverse settings.

Qualifications

• Requires ability to work in an interfaith setting and provide confidential pastoral discussions.
• Strong listening and communication skills with employees and families.
• Must demonstrate Christian values and ministry alignment.
• Ability to handle sensitive issues with discretion and professionalism.
• Proficiency in documenting interactions to standards.

Responsibilities

• Makes regular visits to client worksites (usually weekly) to interact with employees and build trust.
• Provides pastoral conversations and spiritual support to employees and immediate family members as needed.
• Offers referral services and coordinates specialized assistance for employees.
• Assists in planning or attending funerals and providing follow-up support to families.
• Represents MCC in workplace ministry activities and employee orientation where appropriate.

Skills

Active listening

Empathy

Interpersonal skills

Spiritual maturity

Christian ministry

Cultural sensitivity

Communication skills

Documentation

Job description

It's fun to work in a company where people truly BELIEVE in what they're doing! We're committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business.

Please Note: While assigned hours are generally consistent from week to week, there are no guaranteed minimal hours and positional needs will vary depending on Care Team Member availability and Client requirements.

BC, Nanaimo - Care Team Member Part Time - 0.5 hours/week

Position Summary

Care Team Members are the frontline staff fulfilling the mission and Christian ministry of MCC, by using their gifts and talents to serve company employees and their immediate families.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities

• Serves as a messenger and conveyor of faith, mission, and purpose.
• Interacts with companies, their employees, and the community in a manner that exhibits character through personal and spiritual disciplines.
• Ministry: Makes regular visits to company worksites (usually weekly) to interact with employees and build relationships of trust and friendship motivated by Christian faith.
• Visits employees or immediate family members wherever care can be expressed and help given: hospitals, nursing homes, funeral homes, family residences, or other sites.
• May provide confidential pastoral discussions for problem issues of employees and their immediate family members including, but not limited to family matters, divorce, serious illness, care of aging parents, death and grief recovery, parenting, financial situations that may include debt discussions, budgeting, and other life issues related to financial stress, as well as any other personal issues.
• Provides referral service and acts as coordinator for specialized assistance to employees and/or immediate family members with specific needs.
• May assist in the planning, conduct or attend funerals for employees or immediate family members, including follow-up support and encouragement to immediate family members during the grief period.
• May make jail visits to employees and immediate family members.
• Works with companies to serve notifications of death and serious injuries to families and other employees, encouraging those impacted by various tragedies.
• May provide post-termination care for laid-off or terminated employees in order to foster a smooth transition to another work environment.
• May facilitate, but not lead, spiritual enrichment activities, as an employee-sponsored and led activity will usually be more fruitful than a Care Team Member led event.
• Provides, as appropriate/requested, literature and other resources to assist company employees with life issues.
• Represents companies to clients/customers where it would be appropriate to ministry services involved (i.e., serious illness, accidents, traumatic events, and funerals).
• Participates in new employee orientation to explain the Employee Care Service and the role of the Care Team Member Team.
• With Executive Director of Operations (EDO) permission, responds positively and assertively to other duties and services requested by executive leadership of companies, within the scope of the Letter of Agreement between MCC Care Team Members and the company.

Requirements

1. 1. Has ability to work as member of interdisciplinary group and in an interfaith setting. Possesses ability to accept different lifestyles, cultures, beliefs, and values.
2. 2. Skills to effectively listen and interact with clients, employees, and their families. Skills to deliver community presentations. Skills to deal effectively with family members and staff under stressful circumstances. High regard for the dignity and worth of clients, employees and their families. Skills to cope with stressful situations and able to document accurately according to standards.
3. 3. Spiritual maturity and commitment to a Christian lifestyle and to MCC's Ministry values. Incorporates Christian values and beliefs in day-to-day activities and in the performance of job duties. Has a fundamental understanding of the Holy Bible and its proper application. Attests to a saving faith in Jesus Christ and actively participates in a biblically based church.
4. 4. Demonstrated ability to interact professionally with diplomacy, patience, and courtesy with diverse groups; ability to establish and maintain effective and cooperative working relationships while providing exceptional customer service. Ability to make administrative and procedural decisions and judgments on sensitive, confidential issues.
5. 5. Demonstrated excellent oral and written communication skills to communicate and interact effectively with leadership, colleagues, employees, and families. Ability to maintain emotional stability to cope with human suffering, emergencies, and other stresses.
6. 6. Demonstrated skill in analyzing information to define and follow up on problems or objectives. Ability to identify solutions and solve problems. Demonstrated skill in interpreting policy and procedures related to the position and keeping others informed.
7. 7. Demonstrated computer proficiency using Google Suites, Microsoft Office, or other equivalent software, internet, email messaging, and web-based software applications. Ability to understand and learn new technology programs.
8. 8. Must have active provincial license and auto insurance.

Conditions of Employment

Must pass a pre-employment background check and reference check.

Work Environment

This is a remote position in the field, and the work environment is dependent upon the clients’ worksite. Work environments can include manufacturing, hospitals, office buildings, and funeral homes with differing levels of temperature, noise, and light exposure.

Founded in Dallas, Texas, in 1984, Marketplace Care has expanded every year for the past 20+ years and now serves in 44 states and over 850 cities. Client companies with multiple locations are able to have care teams available to employees at each of their sites. Marketplace Care is the longest continuing provider of workplace care teams to corporate North America today, as well as the largest. Over 1,400 care team members serve from northern British Columbia to Texas, providing personal care to nearly 500,000 employees and family members. Marketplace Care Canada began service in 2009 in Fort St. John, BC. Starting with eight clients in this Northern British Columbia community, we now serve clients in New Brunswick, Ontario, Alberta, Saskatchewan as, well as northern and southern British Columbia.