Healthcare Chaplain

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 37,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player seeks a compassionate and skilled Chaplain to join their dedicated team. This role offers a unique opportunity to provide spiritual and pastoral care in a large hospital setting, supporting patients and their families during critical moments. The successful candidate will engage in collaborative efforts with healthcare professionals, ensuring comprehensive support for the diverse needs of the community. With a commitment to personal development and a focus on inclusivity, this position is perfect for those looking to make a meaningful impact in healthcare. Join a team that values diversity and innovation in delivering world-class care.

Qualifications

• Accredited or licensed to practice as a spiritual care leader.
• Experience in providing spiritual care in healthcare settings.

Responsibilities

• Provide 24-hour on-call spiritual care and support to patients and staff.
• Develop spiritual care plans and maintain confidentiality.
• Collaborate with healthcare professionals to enhance patient care.

Skills

Interpersonal Skills

Active Listening

Crisis Management

Team Collaboration

Education

Accredited Training in Theology or Pastoral Care

Degree Level Qualification

Further Counselling Skills Training

Job description

Nottingham University Hospitals (NUH) is the biggest employer in Nottingham with over 19,000 staff

Main area: Chaplaincy
Grade: Band 6
Contract: 9 months (Fixed term or secondment)
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Allocation of Night on call duties proportional to hours worked and some weekend working)
Job ref: 164-6943413-A

Site: Queen's Medical Centre
Town: Nottingham
Salary: £37,338 - £44,962 pa pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 17/03/2025 23:59

Job overview

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust - Department of Spiritual & Pastoral Care

Band 6 Chaplain

Do you want to join a team of spiritual care practitioners who are compassionate, mutually supportive, ambitious, and committed to developing best practice and delivering effective, supportive care for the hospital community of Nottingham University Hospitals? This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Healthcare Chaplain who wants to broaden the horizons of their experience in delivering spiritual, pastoral, and faith-based care in a large, acute hospital setting. This fixed-term 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, those who surround them and visit our hospitals, and staff colleagues. Applicants will be Accredited or Licensed with authority to practice as a religion or belief (including non-religious beliefs) leader/representative and/or pastoral worker. If you answer yes to each of the above questions, please read on and consider joining the team here at Nottingham University Hospitals Chaplaincy.

Main duties of the job

Chaplains share in the provision of 24-hour on-call cover; assessing and providing pastoral, spiritual, and religious care needs. Scheduled interactions, crisis situations; and responding to emergency calls are part of the role. It also includes delivering training, supervising students, developing the chaplaincy service within the Trust, and working collaboratively with other healthcare professionals. Frequent involvement in end-of-life care is to be expected, including peri-natal loss and conducting baby funerals.

Working for our organisation

With over 19,000 staff, we are one of the biggest employers in the city with a central role in supporting the health and wellbeing of our local population. We play a leading role in research, education, and innovation.

Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world-class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!

We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Contribute to the effective working of the Spiritual and Pastoral Care team.
• Ensure good communication and collaboration with all members of the Spiritual and Pastoral Care Department.
• Follow established procedures and policies.
• Opportunity to share in the provision of 24-hour on-call cover; making decisions using own initiative about spiritual needs in crisis situations; responding to emergency calls in week and weekend night-times while meeting the required response time.
• Share in the daytime duty rota.
• Receive and respond to referrals from members of the healthcare team.
• Assist in the planning of the work of Spiritual and Pastoral Care students.
• Participate in particular projects and operational groups as directed by the Spiritual and Pastoral Care Manager.
• Prepare and disseminate briefing material, reports, and liturgical material as directed by the Spiritual and Pastoral Care Manager.
• Assist with Spiritual and Pastoral Care service developments, including Major Incident planning and implementation.
• Contribute to audit and research within Chaplaincy practice.
• Provide pastoral and spiritual care, assess spiritual health and wellbeing needs, develop spiritual care plans, and keep written and electronic records.
• Manage referrals and determine a timely response.
• Maintain confidentiality and obtain informed consent.
• Provide or facilitate spiritual and pastoral care sensitive to the cultural, faith, and belief realities of the diversity of service users.
• Maintain effective and consistent links with designated clinical areas.
• Work collaboratively alongside other professionals of all grades.
• Provide or facilitate religious care, deliver ritual consistent with one’s own faith or belief tradition, conduct funerals, and organise rites and sacraments.
• Provide support for staff, model working relationships that respect the integrity of others, and assess and respond to staff pastoral and spiritual needs.
• Providing training and education, identify the learning needs of self and others, and contribute to the planning and delivery of learning opportunities.
• Maintain an up-to-date understanding of the theory and practice of Spiritual and Pastoral Care.
• Participate in the Development Review Process (Appraisal).
• Develop as a reflective practitioner and receive regular supervision.
• Follow Trust policies and procedures.
• Undertake mandatory training.
• Represent Spiritual and Pastoral Care in healthcare teams.

Person specification

Training and Qualifications

• Accreditation/ licensing with authority to practice as a religion or belief (including non-religious beliefs) leader/ representative and/or pastoral worker.
• Accredited training/qualification (normally degree level or higher) in theology, pastoral care or other relevant discipline.
• Further counselling skills supported by appropriate training.

Experience

• Substantial, recent pastoral experience in local faith/belief community setting or equivalent.
• Significant experience of healthcare chaplaincy OR of providing spiritual and pastoral care in a non-religious setting.
• Awareness of professional and legal requirements relating to safe and effective practice.
• Understanding of current issues in NHS.

Requirements specific to the role

• Able to participate in the departmental on-call provision, including overnight on-call.
• Committed to working collaboratively in ecumenical and multi-faith/belief team and setting.
• Work to maintain Chaplaincy Standards and compliant with UK Board of Healthcare Chaplaincy Code of Conduct for Healthcare Chaplains.
• Committed to continued personal and professional development and learning.
• Eligible for registration with the UK Board of Healthcare Chaplains.

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Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world-class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at the NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!

We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.