Lead Spiritual Practitioner

6 months ago


Gloucester, United Kingdom Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Together with the Modern Matron of Recovery Units, to lead and maintain the strategic vision for spiritual care and chaplaincy services within the Trust. To develop, maintain and update appropriate policies, protocols and guidance that enable the delivery of the aforementioned vision. These will include documents such as a protocol for visits of external faith representatives, a protocol for the referral of service users, a Standard Operational Policy (SOP) for the use of our reflective spaces, and the Terms of Reference (TOR) for the Spirituality Steering Group (SSG), amongst others. To lead and manage the Spiritual Care and Chaplaincy Team, ensuring that the spiritual, pastoral and religious needs of patients, relatives, carers, students and staff are met this may sometimes mean contacting local faith representatives and requesting their input, where the patient, etc., is a member of a different faith to that of the postholder To meet with individual patients, following a request or referral, to assess their spiritual needs; to provide a friendly, non-judgmental ear when they wish to share their concerns and anxieties; and to make available to them resources which enable/assist them to continue to observe the requirements of their religion: prayer mats, prayer beads and holy texts, for example.

In addition to supporting patients on hospital wards, the postholder may also be contacted by any of the Trusts community-based teams and asked to provide religious or spiritual support to one of their community patients. It may also be necessary to provide follow-up support to people who have recently been discharged from their inpatient setting. To conduct staff appraisals, one-to-one support meetings, the setting and agreeing of departmental and personal objectives for each person being line managed, and to ensure that they receive and complete all appropriate training (including Trust mandatory training). As line manager to the other Spiritual Practitioners, to manage sickness, disciplinary and performance issues in a professional manner.

To oversee the provision, development and use of reflective/worship spaces throughout the Trust, ensuring that these spaces are conducive for prayer, quietness, reflection and meditation for people of all faith traditions and none. To collect and analyse statistical data which supports and enables the development of the spiritual care and chaplaincy service. To develop and maintain close links with local faith leaders, communities, statutory & non-statutory organisations, as required and/or requested. To enhance local faith communities understanding of mental health and mental illness through the dissemination of available resources and through personal input, e.g., in worship services, church meetings, away days, training events, etc., as opportunities arise.

To promote and publicise the work of the Spiritual Care and Chaplaincy Team to stakeholders within the Trust hospitals and related agencies through appropriate written information (posters, leaflets, etc.) and verbal communication (presentations, lectures, training, etc.). To maintain, or to seek, membership of the United Kingdom Board for Healthcare Chaplaincy (UKBHC) and to uphold its professional standards for chaplains.



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