Lead Chaplain

NHS; Coventry; On-site; GBP 47,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in Coventry is seeking a dedicated chaplain to manage spiritual care services and support a multi-faith team. The ideal candidate will have extensive pastoral experience, a degree in ordination training, and the ability to assist clients and staff in emotional and spiritual distress. This position offers varied working patterns and a competitive salary, along with numerous development opportunities and a supportive work environment.

Benefits

Generous annual leave

Learning and development opportunities

Salary sacrifice schemes

Wellbeing support

Employee Assistance Programme discounts

Qualifications

• Significant experience in recognized religious ministry.
• Substantial years of experience in health care chaplaincy with a supervised clinical practice.
• Ability to support people of all faiths and beliefs.

Responsibilities

• Manage a team of chaplains and volunteers.
• Assist in developing religious, spiritual, and pastoral care.
• Travel across Trust sites in Coventry and Warwickshire.

Skills

Pastoral care

Emotional and spiritual support

Cultural competence

Team collaboration

Education

Degree level ordination training or equivalent

Registered as a chaplain with UKBHC

Job description

Job summary

Hello, I'm Simon Moult and I'm retiring after 21 years serving as lead chaplain at Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust. During this time, I have found the challenges of providing spiritual care in the mainly mental health setting both rewarding and challenging. I have experienced a real feeling of belonging and connectedness with my colleagues and can truly say that chaplaincy is at the very heart of our Trust. If you feel drawn towards an organisation that will respect your belief, enable you to grow, encourage your ingenuity in providing spiritual & religious care, value what faith can bring as a key factor in the resilience of our clients, and also as a contributing factor to its every day organisation and policies, then I'd like to hand over to someone who can be as excited as I have been to take on the opportunity to join an NHS Trust which has embedded spiritual and religious care for its people at its heart.

You will manage a band 6 chaplain, volunteers and Service Level Agreement, you will be part of a multi-faith team and will assist in the continued development and provision of religious, spiritual, and pastoral care in imaginative and creative ways for our clients, relatives and staff. The Trust also gets involved in cutting edge research for our spiritual care. Dr YingFei Hliot | University of Surrey

Main duties of the job

• Be able to meet the guidance notes criteria for successful applications.
• Be able to demonstrate your interest, experience and understanding of working within a health care or a similar setting with transferable skills.
• Be able to demonstrate your extensive pastoral experience of supporting people in emotional and spiritual distress or who are suffering from mental illness or trauma.
• Be able to demonstrate your own emotional and spiritual coping techniques when providing such support.
• Be able to demonstrate your ability to support, accept and care for people of all faiths, beliefs and none.
• Be able to be comfortable in forensic, Psychiatric Intensive Care Units, elderly mental health, learning disabilities, adults, adolescents, and children's settings.
• Be able to demonstrate your ability to work as part of a Chaplaincy team, alongside colleagues and volunteers and with wider multidisciplinary teams within the Trust in addition to being able to work alone.
• Be able to travel across Trust sites in Coventry & Warwickshire.

About us

At Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust (CWPT), we deliver a wide range of physical, mental health, learning disability and autism services, and are proud to serve communities across Coventry, Warwickshire and beyond.

We put 'people at our heart'; this ethos is at the centre of everything we do and how we do it. We care for our staff and colleagues as much as they care for others and offer a wide range of benefits and development opportunities.

• generous annual leave entitlement which increases during your time with us
• excellent learning and development opportunities, including apprenticeship frameworks, distance learning, internal training, coaching and mentoring, and much more
• salary sacrifice schemes for lease car/ vehicle, Cycle to Work, home and electronics, gym membership and more
• discounts with a range of retailers, restaurants and entertainment venues through our Employee Assistance Programme and NHS discount schemes
• wellbeing support, including an in-house counselling service, external helpline and more
• staff networks and support group

We're always on the lookout for people who share our passion for improving the lives and wellbeing of people in our community, as well as our values of compassion, collaboration, excellence, integrity and respect.

Details

Date posted: 15 December 2025

Pay scheme: Agenda for change

Band: Band 7

Salary: £47,810 to £54,710 a year per annum pro rata

Contract: Permanent

Working pattern: Full-time, Part-time, Flexible working

Reference number: 444-7678531-CORP

Job locations: Wayside House, Wilsons Lane, Coventry, CV6 6NY

Person Specification Qualifications Essential

• Degree level ordination training, or faith community equivalent, authorisation by faith community, and significant experience of working in a recognised religious ministry
• Ordained or authorised within an appropriate ecclesiastical authority
• Registered as a chaplain with UK Board of Healthcare Chaplaincy or equivalent and able to undertake appropriate professional training including being informed of national developments within spiritual healthcare
• Evidence of annual continued professional development relevant to healthcare chaplaincy to UKBHC standards

Knowledge Essential

• Substantial years of experience in health care chaplaincy with approximately 1600 hours experience of professionally supervised clinical practice as an autonomous practitioner healthcare chaplain
• Working knowledge of major faith communities and belief groups working in the healthcare context
• Development of a specialist area of knowledge and expertise in an Adult Mental Health, Forensic, Learning Disability and Autism or specialist Children's Services
• Teaching and training of healthcare professionals at a variety of levels
• Experience of working at a strategic level
• Experience of overseeing a range of complex cases supporting others to deliver effective pastoral and spiritual care.
• Experience of leading reflective practice with a range of groups
• Experience of leading ritual or other spiritual process in a way that is sensitive to the pastoral context and faith/believe needs of those present
• Cultural competence and religious literacy in diverse religious, spiritual and pastoral traditions

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust

Wayside House

Wilsons Lane

Coventry

CV6 6NY

Employer website

https://www.covwarkpt.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)