pastoral worker

Pastoral workers support religious communities. They provide spiritual education and guidance and implement programmes such as charity works and religious rites. Pastoral workers also assist ministers and help participants in the religious community with social, cultural or emotional problems.

The most in-demand skills for this role include provide charity services, build community relations, establish collaborative relations, perform religious ceremonies, provide spiritual counselling, respond to enquiries. These are the skills O*NET identifies as most important for competent performance.

Our AI-durability model gives pastoral worker a score of 0.50 on a 0-1 scale (higher = more exposure). That places it at moderate AI exposure — some tasks are being automated but the role adapts. Learning to work with AI tools rather than against them is the path forward.