Job summary
Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust are currently seeking applications to join its highly valued Hospital Chaplaincy Team. We are seeking experienced Healthcare Chaplains who can work autonomously across the hospital sites to ensure the provision of 24hr On-Call and backfill for absences.
Bank Chaplains will need to be available to respond to both office hours and out of hours calls in a timely manner, as well as to be able to travel between the acute hospital sites.
These positions are open only to those accredited / licensed with authority to practice as a healthcare chaplain by a sponsoring faith community or belief group.
Main duties of the job
The jobholder's primary responsibility is to be available to visit patients/carers/relatives/staff in wards and departments as requested and when required to offer the appropriate care. The jobholder will work as part of the chaplaincy team ensuring that that pastoral, spiritual and religious needs are met.
Chaplains and chaplaincy volunteers deliver person-centred pastoral, spiritual and religious care for patients, relatives, friends, carers, and members of staff, regardless of whether these be persons of faith or not.
It is essential that you are a team player and enjoy working collaboratively.
About us
We employ more than 6,500 staffwho deliver compassionate care from our two main hospitals,Calderdale Royal Hospital and Huddersfield Royal Infirmary as well as in community sites, healthcentres and in patients' homes. We also are incredibly proud to have almost 150 volunteers here at CHFT.
We provide a range of services including urgent and emergency care; medical; surgical; maternity; gynaecology; critical care; children's and young people's services; end of life care and outpatient and diagnostic imaging services.
We provide community health services, including sexual health services in Calderdale from Calderdale Royal and local health centres. These include Todmorden Health Centre and Broad Street Plaza.
We continue to modernise and invest in our health services to build on our strong reputation.Foundation trusts are public leaders in improving quality in health services. They are part of the NHS- yet decisions about what they do and how they do it are driven by independent boards. Boardslisten to their Council of Governors and respond to the needs of their members - patients, staff andthe local community.
Foundation trusts provide what the health service wants, yet are also free to invest quickly in thechanges to the local community needs, in striving to be the best, and in putting their patients first.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To participate in the on-call rota for weekends and public holidays, to respond to urgent and non-urgent referrals for patients and their families requesting religious care and support.
To provide prayers and rituals for End-of-Life Care patients and families and parents who have a pregnancy loss or still birth.
To support ward staff in the provision of health care by providing information, advice and support regarding pastoral, spiritual and religious care.
To provide support to relatives of patients, including those who are bereaved.
To provide pastoral care and support parents with pregnancy loss and still birth.
On occasion share in the provision of prayer and worship for patients, families and staff.
To be able to make specialist independent judgements and provide support regarding religious and spiritual care, dependent upon the situation including End of Life Care and other issues as they arise.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To participate in the on-call rota for weekends and public holidays, to respond to urgent and non-urgent referrals for patients and their families requesting religious care and support.
To provide prayers and rituals for End-of-Life Care patients and families and parents who have a pregnancy loss or still birth.
To support ward staff in the provision of health care by providing information, advice and support regarding pastoral, spiritual and religious care.
To provide support to relatives of patients, including those who are bereaved.
To provide pastoral care and support parents with pregnancy loss and still birth.
On occasion share in the provision of prayer and worship for patients, families and staff.
To be able to make specialist independent judgements and provide support regarding religious and spiritual care, dependent upon the situation including End of Life Care and other issues as they arise.
Person Specification
QUALIFICATIONS / TRAINING
Essential
- Degree level training in a subject relevant to health care chaplaincy that includes systematic study in any of the following fields: theology, religious studies, pastoral care, psychology, counselling, or psychotherapy
- Accreditation/acknowledged status for faith / belief community leadership role
- A commitment to undertake further training essential to the requirement of the post
Desirable
- Postgraduate degree or diploma in a chaplaincy-related discipline OR engaged on a course leading to this.
- Registration with the UK Board of healthcare Chaplains or eligibility to register.
KNOWLEDGE, EXPERIENCE & EXPERTISE
Essential
- Substantial experience in Healthcare Chaplaincy or the equivalent in a pastoral care setting
- Significant work with people from diverse backgrounds, including of faith and no faith
- Counselling / pastoral skills
- Able to lead religious services and nonreligious ceremonies in a way that is sensitive to the pastoral context and needs of those present, adapting ritual to context
- Experience of working in a multidisciplinary setting and the ability to promote shared decision making
- Experience of working in a multidisciplinary setting and the ability to promote shared decision making.
- Demonstratable evidence of working with and respecting religious, spiritual and pastoral diversity and differences
- Deputise for the lead chaplain in chairing and facilitating meetings for staff, volunteers, and interfaith service meetings
- Endorsement to practice as a healthcare Chaplain by a recognised sponsoring faith, community, or belief group
- Working knowledge of major faith communities and belief groups in relation to the acute hospital context
- Evidence of experience of the NHS as a healthcare chaplain.
- An understanding of the NHS and chaplaincy
- The ability to communicate sensitively with people who have mental and physical health problems, to request support and escalate concerns as required to Lead Chaplain.
Desirable
- Effective performance as a healthcare chaplain at a minimum of Band 5.
- Involvement in the recruitment of staff e.g., volunteers
- Experience in counselling and pastoral techniques.
COMMUNICATION AND RELATIONSHIPS (INCLUDING MANAGEMENT RESPONSIBILITIES)
Essential
- The ability to regulate own workload and work on own initiative
- The ability to establish effective relationships and maintain the cooperation of others.
- To be trustworthy, showing careful attention to the individual and specific needs of those in their care and to have an approach that values and affirms the rights of those outside the chaplain's own tradition to practice their beliefs appropriately
- Demonstrate appropriate personal and professional values and behaviours and practice in accordance with the UKBHC Code of Ethics
- A professional Chaplaincy identity rooted in one's own religious/spiritual/pastoral heritage that integrates professional values and disclosure, positive use of power and authority, and clear and responsible boundaries behaviours, skills and specialist knowledge
- Competent use of self in chaplaincy practice including emotional availability, cultural humility, appropriate self
Person Specification
QUALIFICATIONS / TRAINING
Essential
- Degree level training in a subject relevant to health care chaplaincy that includes systematic study in any of the following fields: theology, religious studies, pastoral care, psychology, counselling, or psychotherapy
- Accreditation/acknowledged status for faith / belief community leadership role
- A commitment to undertake further training essential to the requirement of the post
Desirable
- Postgraduate degree or diploma in a chaplaincy-related discipline OR engaged on a course leading to this.
- Registration with the UK Board of healthcare Chaplains or eligibility to register.
KNOWLEDGE, EXPERIENCE & EXPERTISE
Essential
- Substantial experience in Healthcare Chaplaincy or the equivalent in a pastoral care setting
- Significant work with people from diverse backgrounds, including of faith and no faith
- Counselling / pastoral skills
- Able to lead religious services and nonreligious ceremonies in a way that is sensitive to the pastoral context and needs of those present, adapting ritual to context
- Experience of working in a multidisciplinary setting and the ability to promote shared decision making
- Experience of working in a multidisciplinary setting and the ability to promote shared decision making.
- Demonstratable evidence of working with and respecting religious, spiritual and pastoral diversity and differences
- Deputise for the lead chaplain in chairing and facilitating meetings for staff, volunteers, and interfaith service meetings
- Endorsement to practice as a healthcare Chaplain by a recognised sponsoring faith, community, or belief group
- Working knowledge of major faith communities and belief groups in relation to the acute hospital context
- Evidence of experience of the NHS as a healthcare chaplain.
- An understanding of the NHS and chaplaincy
- The ability to communicate sensitively with people who have mental and physical health problems, to request support and escalate concerns as required to Lead Chaplain.
Desirable
- Effective performance as a healthcare chaplain at a minimum of Band 5.
- Involvement in the recruitment of staff e.g., volunteers
- Experience in counselling and pastoral techniques.
COMMUNICATION AND RELATIONSHIPS (INCLUDING MANAGEMENT RESPONSIBILITIES)
Essential
- The ability to regulate own workload and work on own initiative
- The ability to establish effective relationships and maintain the cooperation of others.
- To be trustworthy, showing careful attention to the individual and specific needs of those in their care and to have an approach that values and affirms the rights of those outside the chaplain's own tradition to practice their beliefs appropriately
- Demonstrate appropriate personal and professional values and behaviours and practice in accordance with the UKBHC Code of Ethics
- A professional Chaplaincy identity rooted in one's own religious/spiritual/pastoral heritage that integrates professional values and disclosure, positive use of power and authority, and clear and responsible boundaries behaviours, skills and specialist knowledge
- Competent use of self in chaplaincy practice including emotional availability, cultural humility, appropriate self
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.
