Job summary
Inclusive Chaplain, with Christian accreditation
Band: 6
Salary: £35,392 - £42,618 per annum/pro rata with on-call
Interview Date: Week Commencing 2nd September 2024
We are recruiting for a Inclusive Chaplain, with Christian accreditationwho shares our ambition and vision to deliver theBest of Care by the Best Peopleand has the drive to take us forward, by ensuring that the Trust continues to be the first choice for patients and our staff.
Main duties of the job
To work as a member of the Chaplaincy Team, to provide pastoral and spiritual care for patients, relatives and members of staff.
To contribute to the development, management and provision of the Trust's chaplaincy service, providing high quality pastoral, spiritual and religious care to patients and their relatives, and to staff within the Trust.
To ensure that pastoral, spiritual, religious and non-religious, sacramental, ritual and cultural requirements of users are met in sensitive and appropriate manner.
The Band 6 chaplain will usually act as the "duty-chaplain" prioritising case-loads, supporting volunteers and junior chaplains to fulfil their duties, and responding to new referrals and unexpected events in a timely and appropriate manner.
Our values are Bold, Every Person Counts, Sharing and Open and Together. It is important that you understand and to refer to our values when completing your application and always reflect our values throughout your employment with the Trust.
We are committed to endorsing diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion; our policies / procedures ensure that all applicants are treated fairly at every stage of the recruitment process.
To contribute to our exciting future and become part of our team, apply today.
About us
Do you have the ambition and vision to deliver our mission of theBest of Careby the Best of People providing excellent care, every time?
Here at Medway, we pride ourselves on working together as one to ensure that our shared visionis achieved for our patients.
As a key partner in the healthcare of our local population, we are keen to deliver this as an outcome of our Trust-wide strategy - Patient First.Using an Operational Excellence approach to align our priorities and operational management structures, we are just over a year and half into our Patient Firstdeployment. We are looking for creative, skilled people to join our Transformation Team and further support us on this journey.
Our culture and values define us here at Medway NHS Foundation Trust and are the heartbeat of who we are as an organisation.
Our BEST values underpin Patient First and are at the core of the care we give to our patients, the support we offer to our staff and our overall leadership approach:
B - Bold
E - Every person counts
S - Sharing and open
T - Together
Our Trust is a great choice for people who want to develop their career in an ambitious and dynamic environment; our employees are able to choose the coverage and supplemental benefits that best fit their needs and those of their families. This includes the promotion of flexible working opportunities across the Trust.
Job description
Job responsibilities
On this occasion, we are looking for an inclusive chaplain, with Christian accreditation.
An Equality Impact Assessment has been completed accordingly.
This vacancy was created after a colleague left to fulfil family commitments.
This 2 day-a-week post is a great opportunity to use and grow your gifts and skills dynamically and diversely.
We are a small team of paid chaplains with many enthusiastic and committed volunteers supporting our work in this single-site hospital. Your presence will enable us to grow and increase in diversity and impact, supporting the whole of the hospital community.
If successful, you would be working opposite another 2 day-a-week band 6 chaplain, whose current work-pattern is Monday/Tuesdays. Although a new weekly-pattern may be workable, availability to work on Fridays is desirable.
The successful applicant will be able to cover on-call nights at least once a week, and it is desirable that they will be able to conduct acts of Christian worship on occasional Sundays.
They will have the necessary authorisation from their licencing faith-body to fulfil these duties, as well as to administer end of life rites.
Job description
Job responsibilities
On this occasion, we are looking for an inclusive chaplain, with Christian accreditation.
An Equality Impact Assessment has been completed accordingly.
This vacancy was created after a colleague left to fulfil family commitments.
This 2 day-a-week post is a great opportunity to use and grow your gifts and skills dynamically and diversely.
We are a small team of paid chaplains with many enthusiastic and committed volunteers supporting our work in this single-site hospital. Your presence will enable us to grow and increase in diversity and impact, supporting the whole of the hospital community.
If successful, you would be working opposite another 2 day-a-week band 6 chaplain, whose current work-pattern is Monday/Tuesdays. Although a new weekly-pattern may be workable, availability to work on Fridays is desirable.
The successful applicant will be able to cover on-call nights at least once a week, and it is desirable that they will be able to conduct acts of Christian worship on occasional Sundays.
They will have the necessary authorisation from their licencing faith-body to fulfil these duties, as well as to administer end of life rites.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- The post-holder must be an ordained/ accredited Christian minister/ religious sister or brother within Churches Together in Britain and Ireland (CTBI) and acceptable for appointment by the appropriate Church body, recognised in own faith community
- The post is conditional on the applicant being licenced for the role of Healthcare chaplain, by their licencing body, especially for end-of-life prayers and delivery of Holy-communion (by extension, if necessary).
- The post holder will have recognised theological training to degree-level or equivalent.
- The post-holder will have studied at university-level, in an area relevant to pastoral, spiritual and religious care and healthcare chaplaincy.
- The post-holder will be recognised or appropriately accredited, and in current good standing with faith or belief community.
Desirable
- The post-holder will have Professional Registration with UKBHC
Experience
Essential
- Substantial spiritual, religious leadership experience (or equivalent work with the community), including work with the care of the sick and dying.
- Proven capability to work in demanding and sensitive situation with effective pastoral skill is fundamental to the role.
- Experience as a chaplain in a hospital or any similar sector, e.g. hospice, prison, school, armed forces.
- Experience of visiting patients in a hospital in a pastoral capacity.
- Experience of working alone unsupervised in a flexible manner
- Substantial experience of assessing and delivery of pastoral, spiritual and religious care.
- Experience of working in a challenging environment, often in acute and end of life situations
- Experience of supporting people through difficult and/or distressing circumstances.
Knowledge
Essential
- You should be aware of the need to preserve patient confidentiality, and the importance of this in line with the Data Protection Act
- Good knowledge of other world faith traditions
- Must have a developed understanding of the mental health dimensions of well-being.
Skills
Essential
- Evidence of pastoral skills will be required, with the ability to prepare and conduct services of Christian worship, appropriate to the congregations needs.
- The post holder will have excellent listening, empathy and counselling-like skills
- Must have a full driving licence, and should normally be able to reach the hospital site in 40 minutes, for on-call purposes.
- The post-holder must have excellent, spoken and written, English language skills.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- The post-holder must be an ordained/ accredited Christian minister/ religious sister or brother within Churches Together in Britain and Ireland (CTBI) and acceptable for appointment by the appropriate Church body, recognised in own faith community
- The post is conditional on the applicant being licenced for the role of Healthcare chaplain, by their licencing body, especially for end-of-life prayers and delivery of Holy-communion (by extension, if necessary).
- The post holder will have recognised theological training to degree-level or equivalent.
- The post-holder will have studied at university-level, in an area relevant to pastoral, spiritual and religious care and healthcare chaplaincy.
- The post-holder will be recognised or appropriately accredited, and in current good standing with faith or belief community.
Desirable
- The post-holder will have Professional Registration with UKBHC
Experience
Essential
- Substantial spiritual, religious leadership experience (or equivalent work with the community), including work with the care of the sick and dying.
- Proven capability to work in demanding and sensitive situation with effective pastoral skill is fundamental to the role.
- Experience as a chaplain in a hospital or any similar sector, e.g. hospice, prison, school, armed forces.
- Experience of visiting patients in a hospital in a pastoral capacity.
- Experience of working alone unsupervised in a flexible manner
- Substantial experience of assessing and delivery of pastoral, spiritual and religious care.
- Experience of working in a challenging environment, often in acute and end of life situations
- Experience of supporting people through difficult and/or distressing circumstances.
Knowledge
Essential
- You should be aware of the need to preserve patient confidentiality, and the importance of this in line with the Data Protection Act
- Good knowledge of other world faith traditions
- Must have a developed understanding of the mental health dimensions of well-being.
Skills
Essential
- Evidence of pastoral skills will be required, with the ability to prepare and conduct services of Christian worship, appropriate to the congregations needs.
- The post holder will have excellent listening, empathy and counselling-like skills
- Must have a full driving licence, and should normally be able to reach the hospital site in 40 minutes, for on-call purposes.
- The post-holder must have excellent, spoken and written, English language skills.
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Additional information
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
