Job summary
We are looking for a Lead Chaplain to coordinate and lead our well established and highly respected chaplaincy team.
We wish for a compassionate, caring and reliable leader with at least two years demonstrable healthcare chaplaincy experience who is in good standing with their faith or belief group. This role would require excellent leadership and communication skills to be able to work in collaboration with members of staff across our hospitals.
The chaplaincy team provides high quality pastoral, spiritual and religious care to patients, visitors and staff who do or do not hold any faith or belief.
The Lead Chaplain will drive change across the organisation, in line with national and local guidance and in response to our service users feedback. They will work with multi-disciplinary teams for palliative/end of life care and bereavement as well as our staff wellbeing lead. This role will offer supervision and mentoring to the chaplains, lay staff and chaplaincy volunteers as well as developing and delivering training and education programmes relating to pastoral and spiritual care for staff.
This role requires a person who is able to provide out of hours on call and has a driving licence, owns a vehicle and is able to drive between all the Hospital sites, as required.
Base Location: Bournemouth, Poole and Christchurch Hospitals
Interview Date: TBC
Main duties of the job
To understand the role in more detail please read the full job description and person specification documents which are attached to this advert.
About us
Our values define who we are as #TeamUHD. They underpin everything we do now and in the future. They define how we treat our patients, visitors, and each other, our valued teammates and colleagues.
UHD are investing in services across the Trust, with many being transformed and developed following merger and the New Hospital Programme.
This means that some services may move site this year or next, either temporarily or long term. Recruiting Managers interviewing for this role will be happy to answer any specific questions that you have at interview.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To understand the role in more detail please read the full job description and person specification documents which are attached to this advert.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To understand the role in more detail please read the full job description and person specification documents which are attached to this advert.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- The post holder must be from the faith / belief-specific background as outlined in the faith specific appendix
- The post-holder will be in good standing within, and authorised, licensed or sponsored by their faith / belief-specific background as required by job role
- University accredited Degree level theological training or equivalent knowledge according to their faith / spiritual tradition.
- Postgraduate qualification or equivalent experience in a chaplaincy-related discipline
- Eligible to be authorised by appropriate faith or belief group to practise as a healthcare chaplain.
- To be Professionally Registered with UKBHC (Chaplaincy's national registration body)
Desirable
- To be a member of the of Chaplaincy's professional Body CHCC
Experience
Essential
- Two Years Significant and demonstrable experience of working as a healthcare Chaplain with additional experience of offering formal pastoral care in a recognised, professional capacity
- Demonstrable experience in providing pastoral care within one's own faith tradition.
- Experience of the multi-cultural, religious and spiritual dimensions of health care.
- Experience of complex ethical, theological and pastoral issues that may arise in a healthcare setting.
- Strong understanding of their own faith/spiritual tradition, with ability to articulate this clearly whilst respecting and working with those of differing traditions.
- Experience of working collaboratively
Skills
Essential
- Ability to provide operational management for the Chaplaincy team and to respond to requests from the head of service or local management.
- Skills necessary to implement local and national policies and guidelines across the chaplaincy service including the educating of both hospital staff and local communities in spiritual, religious and pastoral care.
- Skills necessary to manage the selection, training and supervision of chaplains, honorary / bank chaplains and chaplaincy volunteers.
- Skills necessary to identify strategic service needs and to implement significant changes within the service where necessary.
- Ability to undertake, manage and implement research, service evaluation and audit within the Chaplaincy service and the wider healthcare team
- To act as a resource for specialist e.g. relating to end of life care) advice within the Trust, within multi-disciplinary teams, and in the local community.
Knowledge
Essential
- Excellent knowledge of issues relating to spiritual, religious and pastoral care
- Knowledge of national policy and guidance relating to the managing of an effective chaplaincy service
- A breadth of knowledge sufficient to contribute to specialist and higher education training programmes in spiritual, religious and pastoral care
- Knowledge sufficient to assess and seek to meet the complex spiritual and needs of individuals and to record assessments, interventions and referral to others in the patient information systems.
- Knowledge sufficient to develop methods and procedures for appropriate and informed methods of spiritual assessment for use by the healthcare team and chaplaincy team.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- The post holder must be from the faith / belief-specific background as outlined in the faith specific appendix
- The post-holder will be in good standing within, and authorised, licensed or sponsored by their faith / belief-specific background as required by job role
- University accredited Degree level theological training or equivalent knowledge according to their faith / spiritual tradition.
- Postgraduate qualification or equivalent experience in a chaplaincy-related discipline
- Eligible to be authorised by appropriate faith or belief group to practise as a healthcare chaplain.
- To be Professionally Registered with UKBHC (Chaplaincy's national registration body)
Desirable
- To be a member of the of Chaplaincy's professional Body CHCC
Experience
Essential
- Two Years Significant and demonstrable experience of working as a healthcare Chaplain with additional experience of offering formal pastoral care in a recognised, professional capacity
- Demonstrable experience in providing pastoral care within one's own faith tradition.
- Experience of the multi-cultural, religious and spiritual dimensions of health care.
- Experience of complex ethical, theological and pastoral issues that may arise in a healthcare setting.
- Strong understanding of their own faith/spiritual tradition, with ability to articulate this clearly whilst respecting and working with those of differing traditions.
- Experience of working collaboratively
Skills
Essential
- Ability to provide operational management for the Chaplaincy team and to respond to requests from the head of service or local management.
- Skills necessary to implement local and national policies and guidelines across the chaplaincy service including the educating of both hospital staff and local communities in spiritual, religious and pastoral care.
- Skills necessary to manage the selection, training and supervision of chaplains, honorary / bank chaplains and chaplaincy volunteers.
- Skills necessary to identify strategic service needs and to implement significant changes within the service where necessary.
- Ability to undertake, manage and implement research, service evaluation and audit within the Chaplaincy service and the wider healthcare team
- To act as a resource for specialist e.g. relating to end of life care) advice within the Trust, within multi-disciplinary teams, and in the local community.
Knowledge
Essential
- Excellent knowledge of issues relating to spiritual, religious and pastoral care
- Knowledge of national policy and guidance relating to the managing of an effective chaplaincy service
- A breadth of knowledge sufficient to contribute to specialist and higher education training programmes in spiritual, religious and pastoral care
- Knowledge sufficient to assess and seek to meet the complex spiritual and needs of individuals and to record assessments, interventions and referral to others in the patient information systems.
- Knowledge sufficient to develop methods and procedures for appropriate and informed methods of spiritual assessment for use by the healthcare team and chaplaincy team.
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.
