Team Chaplain

Job overview

**Job Title**: Team Chaplain

**Hours per week**: various hours available ,

Perm/Fixed Term-Permanent

**Salary**: £35,392 - £42,618 per annum, pro rata

**Closing Date**: 30 July 2023

**Interview Date**: w/c 7thAugust 2023

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We are looking to appoint a permanent full or part-time Team Chaplain with at least 3 years spiritual, pastoral, and religious leadership, or relevant experience. You must be able to work flexibly and creatively to deliver effective pastoral, spiritual, and religious care within an acute Trust that is investing in its Chaplaincy service.

You will also be part of the Trust Chaplaincy 24/7 on-call provision via a rota system. You will have an in-depth knowledge of spiritual and pastoral care as well as an understanding and knowledge of other major faith, belief and spirituality expressions and traditions outside of your own. You will be a part of an inclusive Chaplaincy team that supports the whole Trust. The Chaplains work closely with a variety of departments and staff within the Trust.

For further information please contact Rev Janelle Kingham, Lead Chaplain on 02476 865046.

Here at George Eliot our vision to‘excel at patient care’takes centre stage. An ever evolving clinically-led acute service provider we are on a journey to continually provide high quality, safe and responsive services delivered by inspiring, friendly and compassionate employees who share our corporate values which underpin everything we do. Our values are not just words on a piece of paper, they bond us together, reflect our ambition and shape who we are:
Effective Open Communication

excellence and safety in everything we do

Challenge but support

Expect respect and dignity

Local health that inspires confidence

**Benefits**: On-site nursery, 27 days minimum annual leave plus bank holidays, cycle to work scheme, flexible working, on-site discounted gym, extensive in-house course learning directory, buying and selling of annual leave, subsidised restaurant, tranquillity garden and generous subsidised on-site parking.

To identify and provide for the pastoral, spiritual or religious needs of patients, carers and staff, the Team Chaplain will be required to:
1. Be a person of integrity within their own faith/belief/spirituality tradition.

2. Be a person committed to personal reflection and continued learning in their faith/belief/spirituality tradition and field of work.

3. Be an informed, visible, and active presence in the hospital, visiting patients and staff in wards and departments frequently; ensuring that the pastoral, spiritual and religious needs of all patients, staff and relatives are met.

4. Be readily available to relatives and patients, particularly those who are bereaved or struggling with diagnosis, and those who are close to the end of life, to ensure that sensitive, efficient, and appropriate spiritual care is given at all times.

5. Ensure that suitable religious services, rites, and ceremonies (e.g., baptism/dedication of extremely ill babies, washing of deceased patients, administering sacraments) are made available to all who require them, at any stage of life, without discrimination and in consultation with ward staff and the patient’s religious community as appropriate.

6. To facilitate, when requested, visits to patients by representatives of their own faith traditions.

7. To work with the maternity and neonatal teams to offer support to parents and families experiencing baby loss at any stage of gestation, or the care of extremely ill babies.

8. Plan, organise and conduct adult contract funerals, baby funerals (at any stage of gestation) thanksgiving, memorial, and other services as required always respecting the faith tradition and needs of others, in a manner authentic to the Chaplain.

9. Plan, organise and conduct services of worship, in accordance with their own faith/belief tradition.

10. Ensure that the multi-faith/belief prayer room/Chapel and waiting areas are properly maintained and accessible to all.

11. Actively offer a ministry of encouragement to staff and offer time and space for supportive listening and counsel when sought.

12. Contribute to education programs within the Trust to enhance understanding of spiritual, cultural, and religious needs of patients and staff.

13. Identify opportunities to collaboratively improve the Chaplaincy service to provide the best patient and staff care within the resources available.

14. Work with the rest of the Chaplaincy team in a spirit of unity, as well as the wider Trust to make the hospital a place of equality for people of all faiths, beliefs, spiritualities and none.

15. To be a part of the Chaplaincy response within the Trust’s major incident plans and response.

To ensure that Chaplaincy volunteers are trained and supervised the team