Chaplain (Bank) - Band 5

Job responsibilities

Job Summary

To minister as a chaplain within the Department of Pastoral and Spiritual Care providing for the pastoral, spiritual, ethical and religious needs of service users, relatives and staff

Key Results Area

1. To work ecumenically within a multi faith team offering ministry and support to people from a diverse background of culture and religion.

2. To work within both hospital and community locations with particular responsibility to the service based at Fieldhead, Wakefield.

3. To be ecumenically sensitive and pass on referrals as appropriate to chaplains of other denominations within the department.

4. To be able to establish and maintain pastoral involvement in behaviourally and emotionally challenging or distressing situations.

5. To work closely with colleagues from other healthcare disciplines especially in relation to patient care planning. To play a full part in discussions where spiritual care of patients is an important issue.

6. To meet as far as possible the particular spiritual and pastoral needs of patients belonging to the chaplains denomination or religion and to respond where appropriate to requests for help or advice from patients or other cultural or religious backgrounds.

7. To have a commitment to ones own professional and spiritual growth and development and to attend mandatory training

8. To be able to make independent judgement regarding spiritual care

9. To work within the professional guidelines and codes of practice as laid down by the relevant Chaplaincy Governing Bodies.

It is national policy that the NHS is smoke free and the Trust supports this by not permitting smoking anywhere in its buildings or grounds.

The post holder will support the Trusts commitment to a healthy work life balance and the achievement of the IWL Practice and Practice plus standard.

The contents of this post will be reviewed in consultation with the post holder when necessary and in line with the service developments.

The holder must co-operate with all policies and procedures designed to ensure equality in employment. The post holder must treat everybody equally irrespective of gender, ethnic or national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, religion etc.

Trust Values:

The Trust is committed to ensuring the highest standards of care and treatment and expects that all staff treat people e.g, service users, their carers, relatives, friends, colleagues, visitors etc, with dignity and respectat all time. The post holder must all time act in accordance with the Trusts Values:

Honest, open, transparent

Respectful

Person first and in the centre

Improve and be outstanding

Relevant today, ready for tomorrow

Families and carers matter

Safeguarding:

Report any concerns regarding the safety or wellbeing of children, adults service users, members of their families etc, in accordance with Trust Policy.

Prevent and respond appropriately to abuse and understand own role in this by undertaking Safeguarding training.

Trust policies and commitments to be read in line with the relevant Trust Policy:

All staff employed by the Trust must comply with the Trusts policies and procedures, undertake appropriate training required for their role and commit to:

ensure they are aware of the Whistleblowing Policy and how they raise concerns;

maintain confidentiality, in line with the Trusts Confidentiality Policy and Code of Conduct;

understand their personal responsibilities with regards to data quality for any information which they create, use or process in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998 and Trust Data Protection Policy;

comply with the provisions of The Trusts Health and Safety Policy and Protocol. Ensuring their own safety and that of colleagues, service users and visitors. Know the action to be taken in the event of a fire and must undertake fire training annually;

receive supervision in line with the Trusts Supervision Policy and an annual Appraisal in line with the Trusts Appraisal Policy, during which mandatory, role specific and personal development needs should be identified and agreed;

understand their responsibilities under the Trusts Equal Opportunities in Employment Policy and ensure that they adhere to the provisions of the policy;

recognise, respect and support the equality diversity of staff, colleagues, service users, carers and the public. Contribute to a working environment which promotes and responds positively to difference and diversity;

ensure they carry out their duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and young people under the age of 18 years, as issued under Section 11 of The Children Act 2004, by being familiar with and adhering to Trust safeguarding policies and participatingin relevanttraining;

comply with their professional responsibilities to develop their practice and deliver care through a Clinical Governance framework (i.e. CPD, Audit, Supervision);

demonstrate, through practice and practical understanding, the importance of the continual development of individual, team and service wide quality improvement;

abide by relevant codes of professional practice, with the organisation taking action when codes of conduct are breached;

work flexibly to meet the needs of the service/organisation, whilst working within a culture of progressive employment practices and commitment to the Investors in People (IiP) Standards.

adhere to the Trusts smoke free policies, which prohibits smoking anywhere on Trust grounds;

being socially responsible by complying with measures that support the Trust in reducing or offsetting our environmental impact;

Identify and report risks, hazards, incidents, accidents and near misses promptly;

In addition to the Trusts own responsibilities under the Health and Social Care Act 2008, Code of Practice on the prevention and control of infections and related guidance, for your safety, ALL staff (and contractors) are responsible for ensuring their work adheres to this Code in the delivery of safe patient care.

This job description is an outline of the main duties of the post. The postholder will be required to undertake other duties commensurate with the band as directed. The content of this post will be reviewed in consultation with the postholder when necessary and in line with the service developments.

Personal Attributes

Essential

• The ability to communicate sensitively with people who have mental and physical health problems
• The ability to establish effective relationships and maintain cooperation of others
• To be trustworthy showing careful attention to the individual and specific needs of those in their care, and have an approach that values and affirms the right of those outside the chaplains own tradition to practice their beliefs appropriately
• Proficient written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to maintain a satisfactory level of attendance
• Good team worker

Desirable

• Ability to travel across the Trust as appropriate to the role.

Qualifications

Essential

• Ordained minister or accredited faith leader.
• Evidence of study to degree level or equivalent in relevant discipline

Desirable

• Honours degree (or Faith Community Equivalent) in a related subject (e.g. Theology)

Experience

Essential

• Extensive pastoral experience in full time ministry and / or substantial experience of pastoral work in a mental health environment
• Be in good standing with their own faith community

Desirable

• Hospital related chaplaincy

Physical Attributes

Essential

• Ability to undertake the duties and demands of the post. A satisfactory sickness record over the previous 2 years (subject to the need to act with fairness and equality of opportunity, particularly where the sickness is related to a disability and/or pregnancy).

Training

Essential

• Commitment to undertake further training essential to the requirements of the post

Desirable

• Training in a range of religions and faiths through a degree or equivalent

Special Knowledge and Skills

Essential

• In-depth knowledge of own faith community and religious traditions, plus knowledge and experience of other traditions and faith communities, multi-faith issues and cultural care
• Computing skill
• Understanding of the need to maintain confidentiality
• Accepting of individual responsibility within a teamwork culture
• The ability to manage own workload and act on own initiative

Desirable

• Experience in training others
• An understanding of the NHS and Chaplaincy
• Experience of managing change
• Knowledge of religious spiritual and ethical issues relating to health care
• To have had experience of training others
• To have had experience of supervising others and carrying out appraisals
• Understanding of counselling processes
• Staff supervisory Skills
• Utilise information effectively

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).