Spiritual Care Lead

NHS; Southampton; On-site; GBP 19,000 - 22,000; Full time

Job summary

The NHS is seeking a spiritual care leader to provide vital support to patients at Mountbatten Hospice. This role involves developing and leading spiritual support strategies, coordinating education programs, and ensuring comprehensive care for patients and families. This position requires strong interpersonal skills, experience in healthcare ministry, and a degree in Theology.

Qualifications

• Clergy with 3 years experience.
• Experience of ministry in healthcare setting.
• Licensed to lead Holy Communion.

Responsibilities

• Lead and embed a culture of spiritual care.
• Coordinate spiritual support for patients and families.
• Develop and implement spiritual support strategies.

Skills

Interpersonal communication

Counselling

Listening

Education

Degree/Diploma in Theology

Tools

Word

Excel

Outlook

Job description

The postholder will lead the provision of pastoral, spiritual and religious support to patients and families atMountbatten Hospice. This will include working as part of a multi-disciplinary team to offer adviceon, and the delivery of, interventions to manage spiritual distress.

They will propose, develop and implement a culturally sensitive hospice strategy for pastoral, spiritualand religious support, coordinating and delivering spiritual care education and training and consultation both internally andexternally.

The successful candidate will contribute to the development of integrated spiritual support strategies for patients and families, as well as employees and volunteers.

*22.5 hours per week to be worked in accordance with the needs of the service*

Main duties of the job

In conjunction with the Senior Management Team, lead and embed a culture of spiritualcare throughout the hospice services. Ensure that patients, families, employees andvolunteers are supported to explore issues such as loss, hope and meaning in line withorganisational values, vision and mission.

Develop provision and policies for spiritual support, ensuring there are effectivemechanisms for monitoring and evaluating service provision and that practice meets beststandards.

Lead on pastoral, spiritual and religious education across all employees and volunteersregarding all areas of the hospice service provisions. To engage with the local populationto offer appropriate education opportunities.

Offer personally, and by co-operation as appropriate, full sacramental ministry and non-liturgical prayer and pastoral care within the hospice and in the community as required.This duty will include working (or making appropriate arrangements) for key religious,multi-faith, and non-faith-based celebrations, including all major festivals.

About us

Mountbatten Hampshire is part of the Mountbatten Group, and its sister Hospice is Mountbatten Isle of Wight.

We pride ourselves on providing expert care and support to our communities across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, who are facing death, dying and bereavement.

Our vision at Mountbatten is of a world where all dying people and those closest to them, have access to expert care of the highest quality, provided by compassionate and professional teams.

Our Values

We care about what we do. We appreciate that people are different and we are kind and compassionate to our patients and families, to our local community and to each other

We are experts in our field. We are professional at all times, aspiring to be the best that we can be in everything that we do

We are innovative and bold. We respond quickly and creatively to the changing needs of our society within the scope of our human and financial resources

We respect our community. We exist for our local population, now and into the future, and we believe that we can achieve more together by working in partnership with others

Job responsibilities

Key Tasks:

To build and sustain effective relationships and engagement with a wide range ofcolleagues, and other stakeholders, including clinical partners and educators.

To coordinate the provision of spiritual support, including non-denominational and non-liturgical worship, in relation to assessed support plans for patients, carers and families.This will include engagement with local partners to deliver specific spiritual care to ourpatients, carers and families as well as employees and volunteers.

To lead the development of coherent patient and carer pathways for spiritual distresswhich integrate both inpatient and community provision.

To assess and develop spiritual care support to meet the needs of patients with a rangeof problems, of differing severity and complexity.

To ensure the provision of relevant spiritual support presence to patients and familiesduring the last moments of life (this is a 24/7 requirement for the in-patients).

To assess and develop spiritual care support to meet the needs of patients with a rangeof problems, of differing severity and complexity.

To contribute to data analysis and report writing to inform external commissioners/stakeholders, the Senior Management Team and the Board of Trustees as appropriate.

*PLEASE REFER TO THE ATTACHED JOB DESCRIPTION, WHICH INCLUDES THE PERSON SPECIFICATION, FOR THE FULL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF THIS ROLE*

Person Specification

Abilities

• Ability to lead an education programme for spiritual support, including planning, promoting, delivering and evaluating the programme
• Ability to demonstrate emotional resilience to work in palliative care
• Able to support others from a range of faiths and cultures
• Able to manage and support a team of volunteers

Skills

• Excellent interpersonal communication skills, and can communicate effectively verbally and in writing
• Counselling and listening skills
• Computer literacy including Word, Excel and Outlook

Experience

• Clergy/Minister or Authorised Lay Worker with at least 3 years experience as an incumbent or equivalent
• Experience of ministry in a healthcare setting
• Experience and licensed to prepare and lead Holy Communion, weddings, funerals and blessings
• Experience of collaborative working across faiths
• Experience of working with loss, dying, death and bereavement

Other

• Current Driving Licence
• Use of a vehicle, with insurance for business purposes
• Be prepared to assist with Hospice fundraising
• Support and adopting of Mountbattens Values

Qualifications

• Degree/Diploma in Theology/palliative care
• Qualified spiritual leader within a recognised faith such as Churches Together in Britain and Ireland
• Ordination training or licensed pastoral/religious leader of faith community

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.

Director of Psychosocial and Spiritual Care

£19,200 to £22,000 a year£32,000 - £36,668 per annum Full Time Equivalent