Band 6 Spiritual Care Practitioner

Job summary

We are seeking a forward-thinking Spiritual Care Practitioner (Chaplain) to join our team, passionate about the intersection of spiritual wellbeing and mental health recovery. The role involves developing and expanding services in line with evidence-based practice and the Recovery agenda, while integrating spiritual support into recovery-focused approaches.

The ideal candidate will have experience working with children, young people, or vulnerable populations, and in community settings, helping extend Spiritual Care beyond institutional environments. Experience in research and data collection to evaluate the impact of interventions is essential, ensuring services are measurable, evidence-based, and continuously improved.

We are looking for someone innovative and strategic, capable of developing new approaches, partnerships, and pathways to make Spiritual Care more accessible and responsive to diverse needs.

Main duties of the job

Being the primary spiritual care representative on allocated wards, offering and delivering spiritual and pastoral care to all inpatients regardless of the patient's or post holder's personal faith belief

To facilitate spiritual activities requested by departments, wards or service user groups.

Responding to requests for links to be made with local spiritual and pastoral support for service users discharged from hospital or receiving services from a community team, managing the sensitivities where there are concerns about potential conflict between priorities for clinical care and the beliefs and values of the faith

Completing electronic patients records and electronic diary of activities undertaken in a timely manner to adhere guideline and best practice which support production of audit checks.

Contributing appropriately to research, service modernisation, policies, clinical governance and any other process developed to enhance the provision of spiritual care services including undertaking surveys and audits as necessary to own work - i.e. faith surveys.

About us

Welcome to Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust. Our 4000 clinical and support staff help us to improve mental health wellbeing and meet the needs of the 70,000 people we serve each year. We provide a range of mental healthcare services across Birmingham and Solihull, as well as specialised services nationally. We also offer medical, nursing and psychology training and are proud of our international reputation for both research and innovation.

Our population is culturally diverse, characterised in places by high levels of deprivation which create an increasing demand for our services and a necessity for us to make sure everyone can access the help they need. We are a team of compassionate, inclusive and committed people working together to provide excellent care to support our community. If you are looking for a place to belong, where you can make a real difference to people's lives, join our team where our warm welcome is waiting for you.