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The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) brings together staff and services from the former Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust and The Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust. The sheer size, scale and potential of our combined service is huge. Together, we’ve a wealth of skills and resources to share and tap into and, a wide range of career paths for you to develop and explore. If you want to join a team of around 20,000 NHS experts in delivering high-quality, local care across Salford, Oldham, Bury and Rochdale and beyond
- **come and take your place with us.**

**Job overview**:
This is an exciting part-time opportunity to join an established multi-faith team working in Salford Royal Hospital. You will respond to the diverse spiritual, religious, cultural, and pastoral needs of patients, visitors, and staff. You will be highly motivated, knowledgeable, compassionate, diplomatic, and creative; an excellent listener and communicator, with a non-judgemental calm and confident approach. We are looking for an ordained or accredited minister, endorsed by the Churches Together in England, with pastoral experience.

Previous experience of healthcare chaplaincy and the NHS is desirable but not essential and the post is an ideal training opportunity in which to develop experience of working as a Chaplain in the NHS as an entry into professional chaplaincy. The successful applicant will benefit from training and supervision. Engaged in self-reflection and developing your spiritual care skills, you will be eligible to work towards UKBHC registration.

**Main duties of the job**:
The Chaplain will:

- Provide pastoral, emotional, spiritual, and religious care for patients, visitors, and staff;
- Identify spiritual, cultural, and religious needs and provide/facilitate appropriate care;
- Visit wards and units, and have a designated focus within the hospital;
- Provide insights and spiritual/ religious care to all, specialising in caring for those from an Anglican or Free Church tradition;
- Lead and facilitate worship and prayer;
- Support chaplaincy volunteers;
- Share in weekend working (1 weekend in 5), and an on call rota (out of hours). You must be able to travel to the hospital within a reasonable time.

You must be:

- Committed to delivering compassionate and person-focused care.
- Non-judgemental, flexible, calm, and confident in approach.
- Knowledgeable about religious and belief-based care within and beyond your own tradition
- Committed to the Trust values
- Motivated to deliver the highest standard of spiritual care at all times.

**Working for our organisation**:
The Northern Care Alliance (NCA) is one of the largest NHS organisations in the country. Launched in April 2017, the NCA serves over one million people across Greater Manchester and employs over 19,000 healthcare professionals across Bury, Rochdale, Salford and Oldham. The sheer size, scale and potential of our combined service is huge. At the NCA, we can offer groupwide, flexible multi-site opportunities, as part of our connected, integrated and engaged team. We believe in saving and improving lives and are passionate about driving forward significant improvements to the provision of safe, high-quality integrated health and social care to our local community. If you share our vision, take your place with us.

**Detailed job description and main responsibilities**:
**Person specification**:
**Qualifications**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Ordained or accredited minister endorsed by the Church of England or Free Churches Group of Churches Together in England.

**Desirable criteria**:

- A recognised counselling qualification

**Experience**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Ministerial experience of working with the Church of England or Free Church community.
- Experience of working with others and independently, including with colleagues of other faiths / traditions and none.
- Experience of caring for the sick or bereaved

**Desirable criteria**:

- Basic knowledge and experience of NHS care strategy and policy.

**Knowledge**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Knowledge of and ability to provide rites of passage and rituals etc, particularly with the regard to the dying and for those seriously ill.
- Knowledge of multi-faith/ belief needs and cultural requirements.
- An understanding and respect for diversity
- Understanding of Trust Values and relevance

**Desirable criteria**:

- Knowledge of Ethical issues.

**Skills**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Computer literate.
- Good communication and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to listen, be open minded and respond with empathy compassion and with a tolerant attitude.
- Ability to demonstrate self
- awareness.
- Ability to balance care, confidentiality and accountability within reporting structures

**Other**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Evidence of continued Professional Development
- Willing to receive supervision and leadership of the chaplaincy manager.
- To be in good standing with own faith/ belie