Team Chaplain

South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust; Warwick; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an experienced chaplain to provide spiritual, pastoral and religious care across Warwickshire's three hospitals: Warwick, Stratford and Leamington Rehabilitation Hospital. You will join a supportive team, participate in on-call out-of-hours cover, and help train chaplaincy volunteers while upholding the Trust's values and commitment to compassionate care.

The post involves collaboration with patients, relatives and staff to address diverse faith

Qualifications

• Qualified chaplain with endorsement suitable for NHS.
• Ability to provide spiritual and pastoral care to patients, relatives and staff.
• Experience with on-call duties and multi-site care.

Responsibilities

• Provide holistic spiritual and religious care across three hospitals.
• Coordinate training and supervision for chaplaincy volunteers.
• Participate in emergency on-call roster including weekends.

Job description

We are looking for an experienced chaplain of any faith tradition to join 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 and part of the role will be to provide training and supervision for them. There is some change ahead, with a new Lead Chaplain to be appointed within the next six months.

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.

For an informal conversation or more information, please contact Rev Ricarda Witcombe, Lead Chaplain: [e-mail]

The Team Chaplain is to work with the whole Chaplaincy team in the delivery of holistic, pastoral, spiritual and religious care to all patients, their relatives and staff.

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.

As Part Of Our Commitment To Equality, Diversity And Inclusion We Encourage All Applicants To Complete a Short Survey. This Can Be Accessed Via The Link Below

https://forms.office.com/e/ahWY3eAGM2

We appreciate you completing the survey.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Rev Ricarda Witcombe Job title: Lead Chaplain Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 07876 577993