Lottie Stewart Hospital
Our Services
Pastoral Care Services
Pastoral Care at Lottie Stewart Hospital involves all staff and volunteers who seek to provide quality care in a Christian environment. A variety of services offered by the Pastoral Care Department are coordinated by the Hospital Chaplain who is an ordained minister of the Uniting Church of Australia. An onsite chapel is open at all times for private prayer and meditation. Services of worship are held on a scheduled basis as well as special services throughout the year. The Sacrament of Holy Communion is celebrated in all Sunday services.
The Chaplain is available to assist with personal counselling, guidance and support for:
- Patients, residents, staff and volunteers
- Family members and friends
- Persons adapting to changing circumstances
- Persons seeking to cope with loss and grief
- The arrangement and conducting of Funeral Services.
Pastoral Care Assistants regularly make contact with all residents and patients through weekly visits. The Chaplain is happy to arrange additional visits from Priests or Ministers from other denominations upon request.
Clinical Pastoral Education
Lottie Stewart Hospital is one of the only facilities in New South Wales who are accredited by the NSW College of Clinical Pastoral Education to provide educational courses.
Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) is a method of developing personal and professional growth in ministry, a distinctive feature of which is practical experience of ministry under supervision in a hospital setting. Opportunity is provided for personal growth through reflecting on the way you are performing your ministry. Professional competency is encouraged by improving the effectiveness of your functioning as a team member.
Such education assists in building of pastoral identity, as you reflect on your own spiritual journey and accompany others on theirs as well as further developing your ability to assess specific concerns arising from differences of cultural, spiritual, ethnic, socioeconomic, psychological and backgrounds.
Basic and advanced level courses, part time will be offered at Lottie Stewart Hospital , Dundas . Courses will commence in February and July with the possibility of additional courses (including an evening course) depending on interest and demand. CPE Introductory Units may be offered at off-site locations by arrangement.
Clinical Pastoral Education courses are accredited by the NSW College of Clinical Pastoral Education inc. Academic credits can be gained from CPE Units towards Diplomas, Bachelor and Masters degrees through most theological institutions.
Basic & Advanced CPE Units – Part Time
Present an action reflection model of ministry which arises out of actual ministry situations and encounters.
Each Unit consists of 400 hours supervised placement over twenty weeks and includes:
- Pastoral visitation of patients and residents
- Verbatim writing
- Course work
- Group supervision
- Individual supervision
- Preparation of reports
Introductory CPE Units – Part Time
Each Unit consists of forty hours which includes information and education in the areas of; Ageing, loss and grief, death and dying, emotional wellbeing, spirituality, sexuality, dementia, health and wellbeing. Case studies, films, subject hand-outs are included in the methodology of maximising the opportunities for information and learning in this unit. The NSW College of CPE will issue a certificate upon completion of this course
