Hindu Chaplain

London North West Healthcare NHS Trust; Greenhill; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare trust in the UK is seeking a Hindu Chaplain to provide compassionate spiritual care to patients, families, and staff. The role includes responsibilities such as ward visits, bereavement support, and collaboration with clinical teams. Ideal candidates should have experience in pastoral care and be able to offer support to diverse faith communities while ensuring continuity during the Chaplain's absence.

Qualifications

• Compassionate and faith-sensitive approach to spiritual care.
• Experience in providing pastoral care to diverse faith communities.
• Ability to collaborate with clinical teams.

Responsibilities

• Provide pastoral care to patients, families, and staff across the Trust.
• Assist in the support and training of chaplaincy volunteers.
• Participate in the hospital chaplaincy team.

Job description

Overview

The Hindu Chaplain will provide compassionate, faith-sensitive pastoral and spiritual care to patients, families and staff across the Trust. Responsibilities include ward visits, religious rites, bereavement support, and collaboration with clinical teams. The role also involves ad hoc on-call cover, maintaining sacred spaces, and supporting service development. The postholder will ensure continuity of care during the current Chaplain's career break, contributing to holistic healthcare and staff wellbeing.

Responsibilities

• Be a member of the multi-faith hospital chaplaincy team offering pastoral, spiritual and religious care to all patients, visitors and staff.
• Provide specialist pastoral, spiritual and religious advice and care for Hindu patients, families and staff.
• Offer ecumenical support to individuals from other faith communities.
• Maintain, participate in and develop pastoral, spiritual and religious care in the Trust through providing support, training and facilitation of reflective practice, including ethical considerations for all staff under the guidance of the Lead Chaplain.
• Assist with the supervision and direction of chaplaincy support for all, including recruitment, training, and support of chaplaincy volunteers.

About LNWH

London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH) cares for the people of Brent, Ealing, Harrow and beyond. Our team of more than 8,200 clinical and support staff serve a diverse population of almost one million people. We run major acute services at:

• Northwick Park Hospital: home to one of the busiest emergency departments (A&E) in the country. The hospital provides a full range of services including the country\'s top-rated hyper-acute stroke unit and one of only three hyper-acute rehabilitation units in the UK
• St Mark\'s Hospital: an internationally renowned specialist centre for bowel disease
• Ealing Hospital: a busy district general hospital providing a range of clinical services, as well as 24/7 emergency department and urgent care centre, and specialist care at Meadow House Hospice
• Central Middlesex Hospital: our planned care site, hosting a range of surgical and outpatient services and collocated with an urgent care centre.

We are a university teaching NHS trust, in recognition of the important role we play in training clinicians of the future and bringing the benefits of research to the public.