Chaplain

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Sutton-in-Ashfield; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a dedicated Chaplain to join our Department of Spiritual and Pastoral Care, delivering compassionate spiritual support across the Trust and responding to referrals.

You will participate in a 24/7 on-call rota for urgent and emergency care, provide bereavement support including guiding families through loss, and collaborate with colleagues and external faith communities to ensure inclusive care.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering compassionate spiritual support across a healthcare setting.
• Ability to respond to referrals and provide bereavement care.
• Demonstrated ability to work with diverse faith communities and staff.

Responsibilities

• Provide pastoral, spiritual and ethical guidance to patients, families and staff.
• Respond to referrals and visit wards/departments regularly.
• Participate in a 24/7 on-call rota for urgent and emergency care.
• Deliver bereavement support, including guidance for pregnancy or baby loss and other bereavement scenarios.
• Collaborate with internal colleagues and external faith communities to ensure inclusive care.

Skills

Pastoral care

Bereavement support

Interpersonal communication

Ethical guidance

On-call availability

Education

Chaplaincy training/qualification

Job description

Are you passionate about providing compassionate, inclusive care to patients, families, and staff? Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a dedicated Chaplain to join our Department of Spiritual and Pastoral Care.

As a Chaplain, you will offer pastoral, spiritual and religious support across the Trust, responding to referrals, visiting wards and departments regularly, and participating in a 24/7 on-call rota for urgent and emergency care. You will play a vital role in bereavement care, including delivering the Trust’s contract funeral service for families experiencing pregnancy or baby loss, child bereavement, or for adults without next of kin.

You’ll act as a specialist resource on spiritual, religious, pastoral and ethical matters, working closely with internal colleagues and external faith and belief communities to ensure high-quality, inclusive care.

If you are committed to supporting people through some of life’s most challenging moments and have the experience to offer sensitive, professional guidance, we would love to hear from you.

To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.

We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.

We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as ‘outstanding’ for care and our King’s Mill Hospital as the only ‘outstanding’ NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.

Role

Not all of our roles are eligible for visa sponsorship. To find out which roles are eligible, please refer to the shortage occupation list found here:

Skilled Worker visa: eligible healthcare and education jobs - GOV.UK

Home Office guidance has changed as of 9th April. Anyone that requires switching visa type may not be eligible for sponsorship even if the role is on the shortage occupation list.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Liz Franklin Job title: Lead Chaplain Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 01623 622515

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