Chaplain

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.

We are looking for an enthusiastic, highly motivated, and experienced individual to be based at Wexham Park Hospital in Slough. Experience working in pastoral care 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. You will work with the Lead Chaplain and the current team of Chaplains and Trust Volunteers.

Previous applicants need not apply.

Main duties of the job

Your role will involve:

• 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.
• Sharing in the out of hours on-call rota and working as a generic chaplain able to respond to the needs of people of all faiths and beliefs, noting that the majority of calls are for Anglican and Roman Catholic patients
• You will primarily at Wexham Park Hospital but be expected to work cross-site depending on operational needs.

About us

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.

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Job description

Job responsibilities

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

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• A member of a member church of Churches Together England and in good standing
• Bachelor's Degree level or higher in Theology

Desirable

• Ordained, authorised or licenced faith leader
• Counselling skills Qualification
• Accredited training course in healthcare chaplaincy
• CHCC Membership

Experience

Essential

• Substantial, recent pastoral experience in local faith/belief community setting or equivalent
• Substantial management of volunteers in local faith/belief community setting or equivalent
• Experienced in crisis work e.g. pastoral care traumatic injury or death, or in the event of a major incident

Desirable

• Experience of collaborative working in a multi-faith/belief setting
• Experience of working as a permanent staff member in health care chaplaincy in an NHS setting

Skills and knowledge

Essential

• Sufficient experience and understanding of spiritual, religious and pastoral care in the healthcare chaplaincy setting
• Able to support and facilitate sacraments/rites and spiritual needs according to service user's own faith/belief group
• Skilled at using Microsoft Office

Desirable

• Understanding of current issues in the NHS
• Able to facilitate services of worship in a wide variety of settings

Employer details

Employer name

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Wexham Park Hospital

Wexham St

Slough

SL2 4HL

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