Chaplain

Job Overview

We are looking for an enthusiastic, highly motivated, and experienced individual. They will have their main base at Wexham Park Hospital and be required to work on Fridays. Experience working in healthcare chaplaincy is an essential requirement.

They will join the Trust-wide Chaplaincy Department of Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust. The Chaplaincy Department provides pastoral, spiritual and religious care to patients, their relatives and carers and staff within the Trust. They will work as a generic chaplain and their approach will be person‑centred and collaborative. Working well within a team is central to the role and you will work with the Lead Chaplain and the current team of Chaplains and Trust Volunteers.

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust has three main sites:
Frimley Park Hospital in Frimley, Surrey;
Wexham Park Hospital in Slough, Berkshire; and Heatherwood Hospital in Ascot, Berkshire. The Trust also provides services from a number of satellite sites including Farnham Hospital and Heathlands Centre in Bracknell and Fleet Community Hospital.

• Working with the current team of Chaplains and Trust Chaplaincy Volunteers in extending the provision of care in challenging situations.
• Providing specialist knowledge and expertise in matters relating to spiritual and religious beliefs, experiences and practices.
• Sharing in daytime weekday duties which are from 8am to 4pm, with the Friday duty being a regular duty.
• Sharing in the out of hours on‑call rota.
• You will primarily at Wexham Park Hospital but be expected to work at other sites depending on operational demands.

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first‑class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.

Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.

For a full list of responsibilities and tasks associated with this role, please refer to the job description/person specification attached to this vacancy.

• Leadership skills
• Ability to work collaboratively across faith and belief boundaries
• Working knowledge of faith and belief systems other than one’s own, and the ability to apply this knowledge in a diverse context
• Skilled at designing, facilitating and leading services of worship in a wide variety of settings
• Digital and verbal communication skills desirable for effective communication of information within the organisation and with the public

• Pastoral supervision skills
• Volunteer management skills
• Counselling skills

• Formal Theological Qualification or equivalent to degree level or equivalent.
• Endorsement for the role by a faith or belief group as defined by the Network for Pastoral, Spiritual and Religious Care in Health.

• Registered as a Board‑Certified chaplain with the UK Board for Healthcare Chaplaincy
• Member of the College of Health Care Chaplains and/or The Association for Hospice & Palliative Care Chaplains
• Postgraduate Certificate in Healthcare Chaplaincy
• Qualification in Clinical Pastoral Education

• Substantial, recent pastoral experience in a local faith/belief community setting or equivalent
• Experience in facilitating rites and meeting spiritual needs according to service user’s own faith/belief group
• Experience of training, supervising and managing volunteers
• Experience in the pastoral care of bereaved people
• Experience in the…