Healthcare Chaplain

Job summary

Healthcare Chaplain

NHS AfC: Band 6

This is an exciting opportunity to be part of the Chaplaincy Team for St George's University Hospitals supporting patients, staff, carers, visitors & students within St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Hospital Chaplains are a collaborative member of the chaplaincy team in fulfilling the goal of providing person-centred spiritual and pastoral care to all patients, visitors and staff, irrespective of their religion or belief in line with local and national best practice.

Applicants must have significant previous experience within Healthcare Chaplaincy, including covering urgent out of hours calls, providing staff teaching on spiritual care, delivering patient & staff support to those of all faiths and none.

If you would like to find out more about this exciting role or to arrange an informal visit, please get in touch with Laura Hunt, Head of Chaplaincy and Spiritual Care on 020 8725 3285.

We look forward to receiving your application.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will fully participate in the urgent on-call Rota for the spiritual care needs of patients, visitors and staff.Responsibility for appropriately supervising and supporting Spiritual Care Team volunteers, care of chaplaincy resources and responsibility for the handling of donations is integral to the post.

The Chaplaincy team helps to provide spiritual, religious and pastoral support for patients, staff and visitors. The post holder will work under the supervision of the Lead Chaplain with other members of the Chaplaincy team to ensure these services are developed and delivered across the whole trust and that these are of a high quality.

You will be accredited with authority to practice by your faith or belief group and be able to practice within the United Kingdom Board for Healthcare Chaplaincy Capabilities and Competencies Framework and Code of Conduct.

About us

About us

With nearly 9,000 dedicated staff caring for patients around the clock, they are the largest healthcare provider in southwest London. The main site, St George's Hospital in Tooting - one of the country's principal teaching hospitals - is shared with St George's, University of London, which trains medical students and carries out advanced medical research. St George's Hospital also hosts the St George's, University of London and Kingston University Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences, which is responsible for training a wide range of healthcare professionals from across the region. As well as acute hospital services, they provide a wide variety of specialist care and a full range of community services to patients of all ages following integration with Community Services Wandsworth in 2010.St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of 1.3 million across southwest London. A large number of services, such as cardiothoracic medicine and surgery, neurosciences and renal transplantation, also cover significant populations from Surrey and Sussex, totalling around 3.5 million people. The trust also provides care for patients from a larger catchment area in southeast England, for specialties such as complex pelvic trauma. Other services treat patients from all over the country, such as family HIV care and bone marrow transplantation for non-cancer diseases. The trust also provides a nationwide state-of-the-art endoscopy training centre.