Chaplain

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Basingstoke; On-site; GBP 27,000 - 36,000; Part time

Job summary

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an experienced chaplain to provide spiritual, pastoral, and religious care across inpatient wards, community services and forensic mental health settings. The role supports patients, relatives and staff across Parklands, Alton Community Hospital, Petersfield and Andover Hospitals.

Part-time (30 hours per week), the post requires compassionate professional leadership, active listening, and the ability to work across multiple

Responsibilities

• Engage with the spiritual needs of service users and staff across the Trust
• Be a full, professional and participating member of the Chaplaincy team
• Use active listening and pastoral skills when providing spiritual care
• Assist individuals to contact their spiritual or faith community and support them and their community as appropriate
• Deliver compassionate, generic spiritual care to patients and visitors of all faiths, beliefs and none
• Initiate and undertake educational events to raise awareness of End of Life Care needs/issues in relation to faith and belief
• Support bereaved families and staff
• Promote ecumenical and inter-faith working within the Chaplaincy
• Deliver general pastoral care to Trust staff
• Promote the Chaplaincy service within the Divisions and Trust wide
• Work collaboratively within the Chaplaincy team and MDT settings
• Support voluntary Chaplaincy within the locality and across the Trust
• Support relevant events and commemorations as required
• Abide by local and national healthcare chaplaincy professional standards and best practice guidelines
• Engage with staff exposed to critical incidents, providing support and care
• Work flexibly across multiple sites as required

Job description

We are looking for an experienced and compassionate Chaplain to join us to provide spiritual, pastoral, and religious care across our Trust. This rewarding role will offer inclusive support to individuals across a range of mental health and community health settings. You will use skilled pastoral care to support patients, relatives and colleagues experiencing illness, distress, uncertainty, bereavement, or significant life challenges, helping to ensure spiritual needs are recognised as part of a holistic package of care. The role will involve working with people across inpatient wards, community services and secure or forensic mental health settings. You will need to be confident supporting individuals with complex needs, including those who may be detained under the Mental Health Act, while maintaining compassion, professional boundaries, and a non-judgemental approach. You will demonstrate excellent listening skills, the ability to problem-solve, work proactively, and show leadership, whilst contributing to service development. The role covers a wide geographical area, offering variety and the opportunity to make lasting change where no two days are likely to be the same. Please note, references must include one from an acknowledged religious or spiritual leader. This role is part time 30 hours per week and covers Parklands, Alton Community Hospital, Petersfield, and Andover Hospitals.

Key Responsibilities

• To engage with the spiritual needs of the Service Users and staff across the Trust
• To be a full, professional and participating member of the Chaplaincy team
• To use active listening and pastoral skills when providing spiritual care
• To assist any individual to make contact with their spiritual or faith community as they request and offer support to them and their community as appropriate
• To facilitate and deliver appropriate, compassionate, generic spiritual care, as required to patients and visitors of all faiths, beliefs and none, respecting, supporting and valuing the diversity of all
• To initiate and undertake relevant educational events to raise awareness of End of Life Care needs/issues in relation to faith and belief
• To support bereaved families and staff
• To promote and foster good ecumenical and inter-faith working relationships within the Chaplaincy
• To deliver general pastoral care to HIOWH staff
• To promote the role of the Chaplaincy service within the Divisions and Trust wide
• To work collaboratively within the Chaplaincy team and MDT settings
• To support voluntary Chaplaincy within your locality and across the Trust
• To support relevant events and commemorations as required
• To abide by local and national healthcare chaplaincy professional standards and best practice guidelines
• To engage with staff who have been exposed to critical incidents, providing support and care
• To work flexibly across multiple sites when required in accordance with the interests of the service

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.

Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care. We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support. Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence.