Chaplain | Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Cramlington; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS organization in Cramlington is seeking a Chaplain to provide spiritual, pastoral, and religious support for patients, staff, and visitors. The role involves working with a dedicated chaplaincy team and managing designated areas within the trust. Candidates must demonstrate the ability to collaborate within multi-disciplinary teams and share responsibilities for volunteer training. This position offers the opportunity to work in a supportive environment within one of England's top-performing NHS trusts, promoting a positive staff and patient experience.

Responsibilities

• Provide spiritual, pastoral, and/or religious care for patients, visitors, staff, and volunteers.
• Manage designated areas and units while being responsible to the Lead Chaplain.
• Supervise and train volunteers and students as appropriate.

Job description

Overview

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

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.

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! Please read ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application.

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.

Application Deadline

This advert closes on Thursday 8 Jan 2026.