Healthcare Chaplain Responsible for The Roman

5 months ago


Salford, United Kingdom Northern Care Alliance NHS Group Full time

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**:
**Healthcare Chaplain**

**With responsibility for the Roman Catholic Community**

22.5 hours per week - plus shared on-call

This is an exciting opportunity to join an established multi-faith/ belief team in Salford Care Organisation, part of the Northern Care Alliance. As a member of the Chaplaincy and Spiritual Care team, you will be working in a diverse setting and will be required to respond to the spiritual, religious, cultural and pastoral needs of patients, visitors and staff.

The part time positions will involve working set hours/ days and participating in a shared on-call rota (out of hours, weekends and bank holidays) with other chaplains. This would require you to live within a reasonable distance of the hospitals and have an ability to travel to the hospitals when needed.

**Main duties of the job**:
The Chaplain will primarily work with and support those of a Roman Catholic faith providing pastoral and sacramental care. This will involve responding to specific referrals and visiting wards to provide pastoral/ emotional care; sacramental care and rituals, as well as sharing in the training and supervision of volunteers as is appropriate.

We are looking for an ordained minister in good standing with the Roman Catholic Church Previous experience of healthcare chaplaincy and the NHS is desirable but it is not essential. You will be eligible to work towards UKBHC registration.

**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 Minister endorsed by the Roman Catholic Church.

**Desirable criteria**:

- A recognised counselling qualification

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

- Ministerial experience of working with Roman Catholic 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 relation to role

**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 the Roman Catholic Church and the Bishop of Salford.
- Able to share in weekend provision and participate in an on-call rota to respond to urgent calls out of contracted hours.
- To be able to travel to the hospital within 1 hour at any time of the day/ night when working or on call.
- We understand the importance of balancing work and home life. We are committed to supporting flexible working for our people wherever possible and all our colleagues are given the opportunity to discuss potential for flexible working. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.

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