Job summary
Hours:18.5 hours across the working week (Monday to Friday). Hours can be
flexible but must meet the needs of the service.
Are you passionate about providing compassionate, holistic support to those navigating the end-of-life journey? Join our team as a Spiritual Care Practitioner, where youll play a vital role in delivering spiritual care that respects all faiths, beliefs, and cultural backgrounds.
At Ashgate Hospice, we believe that every individual should have the opportunity to explore and express their spirituality in a supportive, inclusive environment. As part of our dedicated team, youll provide spiritual care to patients and their families in our inpatient unit, day services, and the wider North Derbyshire community. You will assess spiritual needs, participate in care planning, and guide meaningful conversations about hope, meaning, and belief.
Main duties of the job
As a Spiritual Care Practitioner, specialising in hospice care, you will play a vital role in delivering the service by collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to support patients and families at every stage of care.
You will offer expert advice on spiritual, religious, and cultural beliefs, participate in community outreach activities, promote open conversations about death and end-of-life care whilst developing a spiritual care service that is tailored to support the spiritual needs and values of all patients and their family.
We are looking for someone who is empathetic, open-minded, and motivated to create a compassionate, responsive spiritual care service. If you thrive in a collaborative environment and are eager to make a meaningful impact, wed love to hear from you!
About us
Ashgate Hospice is a registered charity that provides compassionate, specialist palliative and end of life care, free of charge, to patients with a life-limiting illness and their families across North Derbyshire. Our values are at the heart of everything we do at Ashgate. They are grounded in our commitment to being the best we can be for our patients and the people who are important to them, and for each other. We are compassionate. We are a team. We are respectful, open and inclusive.
We are proud of our Outstanding CQC rating and our recent RCN award-winning in-patient unit and have ambitious plans for high quality and sustainable patient care.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Provide holistic spiritual care to patients and families across inpatient, day, and community services, addressing spiritual, religious, and existential needs. Facilitate meaningful conversations on life-limiting illness, belief, purpose, and end-of-life preferences, and offer support through worship, meditation, and religious expression.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Provide holistic spiritual care to patients and families across inpatient, day, and community services, addressing spiritual, religious, and existential needs. Facilitate meaningful conversations on life-limiting illness, belief, purpose, and end-of-life preferences, and offer support through worship, meditation, and religious expression.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- A minimum of two years experience of:
- Working with people with life limiting and palliative illnesses
- Delivering spiritual/pastoral care
- Conducting public worship, funerals or acts of reflection
- To have good standing within your own faith/belief community with evidence of spiritual/theological training
- A knowledge of world religions/beliefs and their practices around death and dying
Experience
Essential
- Evidence of an established place within a faith community
- Experience of working with people with a life limiting condition
- Awareness of current issues in palliative care/hospice chaplaincy
- Awareness of standards of professional practice
- Understanding of the needs of bereaved people
Desirable
- Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary setting and with external agencies
- Teaching experience ability to impart knowledge
Additional Criteria
Essential
- Organisational/time management skills
- Ability to manage and respond to change
- Excellent communication skills clear and concise
- Active listening skills
- Ability to form professional relationships and work with a multi disciplinary team/other professionals/agencies
- Ability and openness to work with people of all faiths and those with none, and a genuine interest in the views/beliefs of others
- A team player who values the support and trust of colleagues
- Knowledge of Microsoft 365 packages including Teams, Word, Excel, PowerPoint
Desirable
- Teaching and presentation skills
- Demonstrate career progression and personal development
- Experience of using an electronic recording system for writing up patient notes
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- A minimum of two years experience of:
- Working with people with life limiting and palliative illnesses
- Delivering spiritual/pastoral care
- Conducting public worship, funerals or acts of reflection
- To have good standing within your own faith/belief community with evidence of spiritual/theological training
- A knowledge of world religions/beliefs and their practices around death and dying
Experience
Essential
- Evidence of an established place within a faith community
- Experience of working with people with a life limiting condition
- Awareness of current issues in palliative care/hospice chaplaincy
- Awareness of standards of professional practice
- Understanding of the needs of bereaved people
Desirable
- Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary setting and with external agencies
- Teaching experience ability to impart knowledge
Additional Criteria
Essential
- Organisational/time management skills
- Ability to manage and respond to change
- Excellent communication skills clear and concise
- Active listening skills
- Ability to form professional relationships and work with a multi disciplinary team/other professionals/agencies
- Ability and openness to work with people of all faiths and those with none, and a genuine interest in the views/beliefs of others
- A team player who values the support and trust of colleagues
- Knowledge of Microsoft 365 packages including Teams, Word, Excel, PowerPoint
Desirable
- Teaching and presentation skills
- Demonstrate career progression and personal development
- Experience of using an electronic recording system for writing up patient notes
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
