Lead Chaplain

South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust; Warwick; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust in Warwick is seeking an experienced healthcare chaplain to lead our team and provide spiritual, pastoral and religious care to patients, relatives and staff across our three hospitals (Warwick, Stratford and Leamington Rehabilitation Hospital).

The Lead Chaplain will oversee multi-faith chaplaincy services, work with the Head of Patient Experience, Volunteering & Chaplaincy to plan and improve services, manage chaplains and volunteers, and

Qualifications

• Lead our team and provide spiritual, pastoral and religious care to patients, relatives and staff.

Responsibilities

• Lead multi-faith and belief Chaplaincy services across the Trust.
• Plan, manage and improve chaplaincy services with the Head of Patient Experience, Volunteering & Chaplaincy.
• Manage healthcare chaplains, honorary chaplains and chaplaincy volunteers.
• Ensure there is an on-call chaplaincy provision out of hours.

Job description

We are looking for an experienced healthcare chaplain of any faith tradition to lead our team and to work with us in providing spiritual, pastoral and religious care to patients, relatives and staff. This post will be based in our acute team and will work across our three hospitals (Warwick, Stratford and Leamington Rehabilitation Hospital).

You will join a well-established, creative and committed team in a Trust which is very supportive of the chaplaincy service. The wider team includes over 40 very well trained, active chaplaincy volunteers.

You will be expected to participate in our emergency out of hours on call provision, which also includes call-outs to the Myton Hospices at Coventry and Warwick. We anticipate this to require being on call one night a week and one weekend a month.

The Lead Chaplain is responsible for leading the delivery of multi-faith and belief Chaplaincy services across the Trust.

The Lead Chaplain will work closely with the Head of Patient Experience, Volunteering & Chaplaincy to plan, manage, and improve chaplaincy services, ensuring that patients, families, and staff receive appropriate religious, spiritual, and pastoral support.

They will have management responsibility for healthcare chaplains, honorary chaplains and chaplaincy volunteers and ensure there is an on-call chaplaincy provision out of hours.

The Lead Chaplain with will work within the Council for Professional Chaplains and Pastoral Carers Code of Conduct.

Come and join a Trust rated Outstanding by the CQC. South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust have been rated as outstanding following our latest inspection by the CQC and we are recruiting new staff to come and help us improve even further. In addition our staff survey results have placed us 4th in the country for recommended place to work.

We provide services across Warwickshire and beyond ranging from Hospitals in Warwick, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Royal Leamington Spa and Shipston-on Stour to Community Services across the county. We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of productivity. Our values can be summed up in one sentence. We are ‘Trusted to provide safe, inclusive, effective and compassionate care’. Throughout the recruitment process you will be asked to think about how you demonstrate these values and how they impact on your work. It doesn’t matter what role you do, whether it is patient facing or not, we are all working in the same way with our values at the core.