Chaplain

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust; Slough; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in Slough is seeking a dedicated healthcare chaplain to provide spiritual care and support to patients and teams. The ideal candidate will have a theological qualification, pastoral experience, and the ability to work across faith boundaries, ensuring care is person-centered. This role involves teamwork, providing on-call support, and contributing to enhancing spiritual well-being within the Trust.

Benefits

First class development opportunities

Flexible working patterns

Supportive work environment

Qualifications

• Experience in healthcare chaplaincy is essential.
• Substantial recent pastoral experience required.
• Endorsement by a faith or belief group necessary.

Responsibilities

• Provide pastoral care in challenging situations.
• Work with medical teams and support patients' spiritual needs.
• Participate in on-call rota and weekday duties.

Skills

Ability to work collaboratively across faith and belief boundaries

Working knowledge of faith and belief systems

Skilled at designing and leading worship services

Digital and verbal communication skills

Extensive knowledge of pastoral care in healthcare

Training and supervision skills

Counselling skills

Education

Formal Theological Qualification equivalent to degree level

Registered as Board-Certified chaplain

Postgraduate Certificate in Healthcare Chaplaincy

Qualification in Clinical Pastoral Education

Job description

We are looking for an enthusiastic, highly motivated, and experienced individual. They will have their main base at Wexham Park Hospital. Experience working in healthcare chaplaincy is an essential requirement.

They will join the Trust-wide Chaplaincy Department of Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust. The Chaplaincy Department provides pastoral, spiritual and religious care to patients, their relatives and carers and staff within the Trust. They will work as a generic chaplain and their approach will be person-centred and collaborative. Working well within a team is central to the role and You will work with the Lead Chaplain and the current team of Chaplains and Trust Volunteers.

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust has three main sites: Frimley Park Hospital in Frimley, Surrey; Wexham Park Hospital in Slough, Berkshire; and Heatherwood Hospital in Ascot, Berkshire. The Trust also provides services from a number of satellite sites including Farnham Hospital and Heathlands Centre in Bracknell and Fleet Community Hospital.

Main duties of the job

Your role will involve:

• Working with the current team of Chaplains and Trust Chaplaincy Volunteers in extending the provision of care in challenging situations.
• Providing specialist knowledge and expertise in matters relating to spiritual and religious beliefs, experiences and practices.
• Sharing in daytime weekday duties which are from 8am to 4pm.
• Sharing in the out of hours on-call rota.
• You will primarily at Wexham Park Hospital but be expected to work at other sites depending on operational demands.

About us

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.

Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.

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Job responsibilities

For a full list of responsibilities and tasks associated with this role, please refer to the job description/person specification attached to this vacancy.

Person Specification

Skills

• Ability to work collaboratively across faith and belief boundaries
• Working knowledge of faith and belief systems other than one's own, and the ability to apply this knowledge in a diverse context
• Skilled at designing, facilitating and leading services of worship in a wide variety of settings
• Digital and verbal communication skills desirable for effective communication of information within the organisation and with the public
• Extensive knowledge and insight into pastoral, spiritual and religious care in a healthcare setting
• Training and supervision skills
• Counselling skills

Qualifications

• Formal Theological Qualification or equivalent to degree level or equivalent.
• Endorsement for the role by a faith or belief group as defined by the Network for Pastoral, Spiritual and Religious Care in Health.
• Registered as a Board-Certified chaplain with the UK Board for Healthcare Chaplaincy
• Member of the College of Health Care Chaplains and/or The Association for Hospice & Palliative Care Chaplains
• Postgraduate Certificate in Healthcare Chaplaincy
• Appropriately authorised, licensed, or commissioned for the role of healthcare chaplain
• Qualification in Clinical Pastoral Education

Experience

• Substantial, recent pastoral experience in a local faith/belief community setting or equivalent
• Experience in facilitating rites and meeting spiritual needs according to service user's own faith/belief group
• Experience of training, supervising and managing volunteers
• Experience in the pastoral care of bereaved people
• Experience in the pastoral care of terminally ill people
• Experience in crisis work such as pastoral care following traumatic injury, death and major incidents
• Experience of providing teaching on spiritual care to healthcare professionals
• Experience in Healthcare Chaplaincy
• Experience of pastoral care of staff under pressure
• Experience of collaborative working in a diverse multi-faith/belief setting
• Experience in the pastoral care of people bereaved of children and experience of death through pregnancy loss, still birth, and neonatal death.

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.

£20,308 to £24,389 a yearper annum incl HCAS