Healthcare Chaplain

University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent healthcare institution in central London is seeking an experienced Healthcare Chaplain to lead a team providing spiritual, pastoral, and faith-based care in a large acute hospital setting. The ideal candidate will have strong interpersonal skills, active listening abilities, and be accredited to practice as a religion leader. This role offers flexible working and numerous employee benefits in a supportive environment.

Benefits

Interest-free season ticket loan

Access to free independent support

Retail discounts

Cycle-to-work scheme

On-site accommodation

Wellbeing programme with arts engagement

Annual Celebrating Excellence Awards

Qualifications

• Experienced spiritual care practitioner with a person-centred approach.

Responsibilities

• Manage a team of employed and voluntary chaplains from diverse faith/belief backgrounds.
• Lead by example as a healthcare chaplain, providing spiritual care.

Skills

High-level interpersonal skills

Active listening

Leadership

Education

Accredited or Licensed authority to practice

Job description

This role requires an experienced and proficient spiritual care practitioner with a person‑centred approach who employs active listening together with a high level of interpersonal skills in support of patients, their visitors and staff colleagues. Please note that all correspondence regarding your application will be via email. The mails will be sent to you via TRAC.jobs and not via NHS Jobs – we encourage you to check your inbox regularly.

Do you want to lead a team of spiritual care practitioners who are compassionate, mutually supportive and committed to developing best practice and who deliver effective, supportive care for the healthcare community of University College London Hospitals? This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Healthcare Chaplain who wants to broaden the horizons of their experience of managing the delivery of effective spiritual, pastoral, and faith‑based care in a large, acute hospital setting in central London. You will manage a team of employed and voluntary chaplains from diverse faith/belief backgrounds, and you yourself will lead by example as a healthcare chaplain.

Responsibilities

• Manage a team of employed and voluntary chaplains from diverse faith/belief backgrounds.
• Lead by example as a healthcare chaplain, providing spiritual, pastoral and faith‑based care in a large acute hospital setting.

Qualifications

• Accredited or Licensed with authority to practice as a religion or belief leader/representative and/or pastoral worker in line with NHS chaplaincy Guidelines for NHS managers on pastoral, spiritual and religious care.
• Experienced spiritual care practitioner with a person‑centred approach.
• High-level interpersonal skills and active listening.

Benefits

• UCLH top trust to work at in England – In the most recent NHS staff survey UCLH had the highest percentage of staff who said they would recommend us as a place to work, out of all general acute or acute/community NHS trusts in England – for the third year in a row.
• UCLH recognises the benefits of flexible working for staff – To find out more, visit: Flexible working. To discover more about what makes UCLH a great place to work, visit: Why Choose UCLH?
• At UCLH we have a real ‘One Team’ ethos, and our values – safety, kindness, teamwork and improvement – are central to the way we work.
• UCLH recognises the benefits of flexible working for staff and has a dedicated policy which allows staff to apply for flexible working right from the beginning of employment.
• We offer our permanent staff an interest‑free season ticket loan for travel, all our staff have access to free independent and confidential support, large retail discounts, a staff discount platform, cycle‑to‑work scheme and on‑site accommodation.
• UCLH Arts and Heritage's staff wellbeing programme, Creative Comfort, offers a variety of ways to engage with the arts as a member of UCLH staff. You can try out the weekly choir, weekly art club and join the Culture Club for exclusive access to free and discounted tickets for opera, exhibitions, theatre and more.
• We recognise, reward and thank colleagues by nominating them for our annual Celebrating Excellence Awards, which are funded by UCLH Charity.
• UCLH is also a member of www.mytrustbenefits.co.uk/ which offers discounts on high‑street retail stores, offers on travel deals, and cash‑back schemes.