Lead Chaplain

We are looking for a Lead Chaplain to coordinate and lead our well established and highly respected chaplaincy team.

We wish for a compassionate, caring and reliable leader with at least two years demonstrable healthcare chaplaincy experience who is in good standing with their faith or belief group. This role would require excellent leadership and communication skills to be able to work in collaboration with members of staff across our hospitals.

The chaplaincy team provides high quality pastoral, spiritual and religious care to patients, visitors and staff who do or do not hold any faith or belief.

The Lead Chaplain will drive change across the organisation, in line with national and local guidance and in response to our service users feedback. They will work with multi-disciplinary teams for palliative/end of life care and bereavement as well as our staff wellbeing lead. This role will offer supervision and mentoring to the chaplains, lay staff and chaplaincy volunteers as well as developing and delivering training and education programmes relating to pastoral and spiritual care for staff.

This role requires a person who is able to provide out of hours on call and has a driving licence, owns a vehicle and is able to drive between all the Hospital sites, as required.

**Base Location**: Bournemouth, Poole and Christchurch Hospitals

**Interview Date**: TBC

To understand the role in more detail please read the full job description and person specification documents which are attached to this advert.

Our values define who we are as #TeamUHD. They underpin everything we do now and in the future. They define how we treat our patients, visitors, and each other, our valued teammates and colleagues.

UHD are investing in services across the Trust, with many being transformed and developed following merger and the New Hospital Programme.

This means that some services may move site this year or next, either temporarily or long term. Recruiting Managers interviewing for this role will be happy to answer any specific questions that you have at interview.

To understand the role in more detail please read the full job description and person specification documents which are attached to this advert.