Job summary
Previous applicants need not apply!
This is an exciting post for an experienced practitioner who wants to take the next step in delivering spiritual, pastoral, and religious care within a hospital environment.
- Are you an ordained minister in good standing with a Member Church of the Free Churches Group, the Anglican Church, or the Roman Catholic Church, and able to be endorsed as laid out in the Network for Pastoral, Spiritual and Religious Care in Health (NPSRCH).
- Are you looking to work in a supportive values-based environment and job role?
- Do you want to join a team of spiritual care practitioners who are ambitious and committed to developing best practice and delivering best care within a modern healthcare environment?
- Have you got the qualifications, experience, and skills to offer holistically based spiritual, pastoral, and religious care to people regardless of their faith, belief, or non-belief?
If you answer yes to each of the above questions, please read on. Due to our current staffing situation this post is open to ordained ministers as outlined above. Other people need not apply on this occasion.
As a chaplain, you will be responsible for enabling, facilitating, promoting, providing, and contributing to the spiritual, pastoral, and religious care of people within the hospital community and actively supporting our SPaRC Strategic Plan. You will be based at Southmead Hospital and will participate in a Bristol wide out of hours on-call service.
Main duties of the job
An autonomous, qualified practitioner whose role is to seek out and respond to the spiritual, pastoral, and religious needs of individuals, their carers and staff while remaining accountable to the chaplaincy team leader for all aspects of their duties and decisions.
Engage in the assessment, delivery, enablement, monitoring and recording of person-centred SPaRC which addresses the individual and collective needs of the hospital community.
Providing safe, effective, compassionate, and responsive care and interventions that addresses the identified holistic SPaRC needs of people to support healing and wholeness, within the parameters of the role and in accordance with professional codes of conduct and clinical governance.
Respond to people in spiritual distress including those who may show challenging behaviours, or have complex needs by using professional and pastoral knowledge, skills, and practice.
Provide or enable religious rites and ceremonies as may be requested or required including children and babies, people facing complex surgery, approaching the end of life, after death, or following baby loss during pregnancy or soon after.
Participate in a 24-hour, 7 day per week SPaRC emergency on call service shared with UHBW and provide SPaRC support as required during any Major Incidents subject to separate or prior agreement.
Arrange and conduct Trust funerals.
About us
You will be joining the chaplaincy team at an exciting point of change where you will work alongside other chaplains, volunteers and representatives to deliver SPaRC to people from a range of religious backgrounds and none. Together we are delivering a new strategy which puts SPaRC at the heart of our Patient Experience and is building stronger links with our local faith communities.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For full details please refer to the Job Description and Personal Specification attached. The list is note exhaustive but it is comprehensive in highlighting the main duties for this post.
Please note this is a full-time position (37.5 hpw) to meet service demands and the offered candidate will start at the bottom of Band 6 unless they have relevant NHS experience/agenda for change.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For full details please refer to the Job Description and Personal Specification attached. The list is note exhaustive but it is comprehensive in highlighting the main duties for this post.
Please note this is a full-time position (37.5 hpw) to meet service demands and the offered candidate will start at the bottom of Band 6 unless they have relevant NHS experience/agenda for change.
Person Specification
Qualifications and Training
Essential
- oPostgraduate certificate or diploma in healthcare chaplaincy, or comprehensive theological education to at least diploma level, or evidence of an equivalent accredited faith qualification.
- oOrdained minister in good standing with a Member Church of the Free Churches Group, the Anglican Church, or the Roman Catholic Church, and able to be endorsed (meeting the appointment criteria for their faith/denominational body) as laid out in the Network for Pastoral, Spiritual and Religious Care in Health (NPSRCH).
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
- oExperience in providing extensive pastoral ministry within their own faith or belief context including support for people with complex needs.
- oExperience in responding to people with spiritual problems encountered in sickness, dying, death and bereavement.
- oExperience or understanding of delivering SPaRC to people of any belief and none within a hospital context.
- oKnowledge of a range of world faiths and belief perspectives that impact SPaRC within a hospital context.
- oExperience of preparing and delivering education and training to adult learners.
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- oGood listening skills, a keen self-awareness, and an un-shockable constitution.
- oGood interpersonal and communication skills.
- oAbility to work in complex and/or stressful situations with exposure to highly distressing or emotional circumstances and to maintain personal resilience.
- oIT literacy and familiarity with Microsoft Office software and able to input and interrogate data.
- oAbility to pray with people and to deliver or facilitate religious rites by request, within the scope of the post holder's faith endorsement.
- oAbility to participate in a 24/7 Bristol wide shared emergency on-call service, including lone-working with access to suitable transport.
Personal Qualities and Aptitudes
Essential
- oDemonstrates personal standards and values that conform to the Health Care Chaplains Code of Conduct and support the Trust Values.
- oProvides care and treatment without discrimination in ways that respects and values diversity regardless of difference including age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, maternal status, race, ethnicity or diversity of religion, belief and non-belief.
- oMaintains a professional, calm, empathic, sensitive, caring, and compassionately respectful approach when working in stressful and emotional situations within a busy environment.
- oSelf-motivated and maintains a positive attitude even when encountering challenging or complex situations.
- oDemonstrates an open, mature, and disciplined spirituality.
- oAble to work as part of a supportive but diverse SPaRC team, within a multi-disciplinary and multi-faith environment.
- oAble to respond appropriately to people of all faiths or beliefs and none without prejudice or proselytising.
Person Specification
Qualifications and Training
Essential
- oPostgraduate certificate or diploma in healthcare chaplaincy, or comprehensive theological education to at least diploma level, or evidence of an equivalent accredited faith qualification.
- oOrdained minister in good standing with a Member Church of the Free Churches Group, the Anglican Church, or the Roman Catholic Church, and able to be endorsed (meeting the appointment criteria for their faith/denominational body) as laid out in the Network for Pastoral, Spiritual and Religious Care in Health (NPSRCH).
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
- oExperience in providing extensive pastoral ministry within their own faith or belief context including support for people with complex needs.
- oExperience in responding to people with spiritual problems encountered in sickness, dying, death and bereavement.
- oExperience or understanding of delivering SPaRC to people of any belief and none within a hospital context.
- oKnowledge of a range of world faiths and belief perspectives that impact SPaRC within a hospital context.
- oExperience of preparing and delivering education and training to adult learners.
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- oGood listening skills, a keen self-awareness, and an un-shockable constitution.
- oGood interpersonal and communication skills.
- oAbility to work in complex and/or stressful situations with exposure to highly distressing or emotional circumstances and to maintain personal resilience.
- oIT literacy and familiarity with Microsoft Office software and able to input and interrogate data.
- oAbility to pray with people and to deliver or facilitate religious rites by request, within the scope of the post holder's faith endorsement.
- oAbility to participate in a 24/7 Bristol wide shared emergency on-call service, including lone-working with access to suitable transport.
Personal Qualities and Aptitudes
Essential
- oDemonstrates personal standards and values that conform to the Health Care Chaplains Code of Conduct and support the Trust Values.
- oProvides care and treatment without discrimination in ways that respects and values diversity regardless of difference including age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, maternal status, race, ethnicity or diversity of religion, belief and non-belief.
- oMaintains a professional, calm, empathic, sensitive, caring, and compassionately respectful approach when working in stressful and emotional situations within a busy environment.
- oSelf-motivated and maintains a positive attitude even when encountering challenging or complex situations.
- oDemonstrates an open, mature, and disciplined spirituality.
- oAble to work as part of a supportive but diverse SPaRC team, within a multi-disciplinary and multi-faith environment.
- oAble to respond appropriately to people of all faiths or beliefs and none without prejudice or proselytising.
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).
