Chaplain

Previous applicants need not apply

This is an exciting post for an experienced practitioner who wants to take the next step in delivering spiritual, pastoral, and religious care within a hospital environment.

Are you an ordained minister in good standing with a Member Church of the Free Churches Group, the Anglican Church, or the Roman Catholic Church, and able to be endorsed as laid out in the Network for Pastoral, Spiritual and Religious Care in Health (NPSRCH).

Are you looking to work in a supportive values-based environment and job role?

Do you want to join a team of spiritual care practitioners who are ambitious and committed to developing best practice and delivering best care within a modern healthcare environment?

Have you got the qualifications, experience, and skills to offer holistically based spiritual, pastoral, and religious care to people regardless of their faith, belief, or non-belief?

As a chaplain, you will be responsible for enabling, facilitating, promoting, providing, and contributing to the spiritual, pastoral, and religious care of people within the hospital community and actively supporting our SPaRC Strategic Plan. You will be based at Southmead Hospital and will participate in a Bristol wide out of hours on-call service.
- An autonomous, qualified practitioner whose role is to seek out and respond to the spiritual, pastoral, and religious needs of individuals, their carers and staff while remaining accountable to the chaplaincy team leader for all aspects of their duties and decisions.
- Engage in the assessment, delivery, enablement, monitoring and recording of person-centred SPaRC which addresses the individual and collective needs of the hospital community.
- Providing safe, effective, compassionate, and responsive care and interventions that addresses the identified holistic SPaRC needs of people to support healing and wholeness, within the parameters of the role and in accordance with professional codes of conduct and clinical governance.
- Respond to people in spiritual distress including those who may show challenging behaviours, or have complex needs by using professional and pastoral knowledge, skills, and practice.
- Provide or enable religious rites and ceremonies as may be requested or required including children and babies, people facing complex surgery, approaching the end of life, after death, or following baby loss during pregnancy or soon after.
- Arrange and conduct Trust funerals.

You will be joining the chaplaincy team at an exciting point of change where you will work alongside other chaplains, volunteers and representatives to deliver SPaRC to people from a range of religious backgrounds and none. Together we are delivering a new strategy which puts SPaRC at the heart of our Patient Experience and is building stronger links with our local faith communities.

For full details please refer to the Job Description and Personal Specification attached. The list is note exhaustive but it is comprehensive in highlighting the main duties for this post.