Lead Chaplain | Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust

Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust; Coventry; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional NHS Trust in Coventry is looking for a Chaplain to provide spiritual and pastoral care within a multi-faith team. Responsibilities include managing a band 6 chaplain and volunteers, supporting clients of diverse beliefs, and engaging in cutting-edge research. Ideal candidates will have extensive pastoral experience and be comfortable in varied healthcare settings. Benefits include generous annual leave and excellent professional development opportunities. The application deadline is January 16, 2026.

Benefits

Generous annual leave

Learning and development opportunities

Salary sacrifice schemes

NHS discounts

Wellbeing support

Qualifications

• Demonstrate extensive pastoral experience supporting emotional and spiritual distress.
• Comfortable in various health care settings including elderly mental health and learning disabilities.
• Ability to work as part of a Chaplaincy team and travel across Trust sites.

Responsibilities

• Manage a band 6 chaplain and volunteers.
• Assist in spiritual and religious care for clients, relatives, and staff.
• Contribute to research in spiritual care.

Skills

Pastoral care experience

Ability to support diverse beliefs

Emotional coping techniques

Teamwork within multidisciplinary settings

Job description

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 Héliot | University of Surrey

Responsibilities

• 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.

Qualifications

• 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.

Benefits

• 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.

This advert closes on Friday 16 Jan 2026