Chaplain

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Cramlington; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust invites applications for a Chaplain to join our Chaplaincy team at The Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital in Cramlington. The post reports to the Lead Chaplain and offers spiritual, pastoral, and religious care to patients, carers and staff across the Trust.

The successful candidate will liaise with colleagues to develop services, provide cover, and work within multi-disciplinary teams.

Qualifications

• Educated to Degree Level or equivalent.
• Licensable as a faith leader.
• Endorsed as a pastoral carer by a faith group for healthcare chaplaincy.

Responsibilities

• Liaise with Chaplaincy team to develop and deliver services across the Trust.
• Provide reciprocal cover for chaplaincy colleagues as needed.
• Work collaboratively within multi-disciplinary teams where appropriate.
• Provide spiritual, pastoral and religious care for patients, visitors, staff and volunteers within the Trust.
• Be responsible for designated areas/units and manage work under the Lead Chaplain.
• Share in supervision and training of volunteers and students.

Skills

Pastoral care

Counselling

Education

Degree or equivalent

Pastoral care endorsement

Job description

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Chaplain

The closing date is 23 November 2026

The Chaplaincy team members help provide spiritual, pastoral and religious support for patients, carers and staff.

Main duties of the job

Reporting to the Lead Chaplain, the post holder will:

• liaise with other members of the Chaplaincy team to ensure Chaplaincy services are developed and delivered across the whole trust and that these are of a safe and high quality.
• be expected to work within the team and to provide reciprocal cover for chaplaincy colleagues as necessary.
• be expected to work collaboratively within multi-disciplinary teams, where directed and appropriate.

About us

We manage Chaplaincy in four major locality hospitals at Cramlington, North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Haltwhistle and Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality - Cramlington Hospital is a state of the art Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England.

Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Come to work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn't, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way!

Job responsibilities

The post holder will:

• work with the other chaplains in the team to provide spiritual, pastoral and/or religious care for patients, visitors, staff and volunteers within the Northumbria Trust.
• be also responsible for designated areas and/ or units within the trust and will manage their work while being responsible to the Lead Chaplain.
• share in the supervision and training of volunteers and students as appropriate.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• If already a faith leader, to be licensable by your faith group.
• Educated to Degree Level or equivalent
• If from a belief group, to be authorized as a pastoral carer with endorsement to practice as a healthcare chaplain by an appropriate faith or belief group (see NPSRCH Homepage - Network for Pastoral, Spiritual and Religious Care in Health).
• Education within aspects of counselling and/or pastoral care.

Other

• It is an essential requirement of the role that the post holder has a valid UK driving license and is either a car owner and able to use the car for work purposes, or has a Trust personal lease vehicle which may be used for the role. However, the Trust would consider making reasonable adjustments to the role, if necessary, to enable a disabled person to undertake the role

Experience and knowledge

• Knowledge of the NHS
• Knowledge of and sensitivity to a range of faith and belief systems.
• Substantial pastoral experience and skills
• Counselling experience

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Address

The Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital

The Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital