Job summary
- Main area
- Chaplaincy
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 15 hours per week
- Job ref
- 275-2407CHAPLAIN
- Employer
- Medway NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Medway Maritime Hospital
- Town
- Gillingham
- Salary
- £35,392 - £42,618 per annum/pro rata with on-call
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 14/08/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Hospital Chaplain
Band 6
Do you have the ambition and vision to deliver the Best of Care by the Best People?
Here at Medway, we pride ourselves on working together as one to ensure that our shared vision of Better, Best, Brilliant is achieved
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, we are able to give our employees flexibility on where, when and the hours they work.
Our culture and values are what drives Medway NHS Foundation Trust and is the heartbeat of who we are as an organisation. It is important that you understand and to refer to our values when you are completing your application and always reflect our values throughout your employment with the Trust.
Job overview
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 accreditation who shares our ambition and vision to deliver the Best of Care by the Best People and 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.
Working for our organisation
Do you have the ambition and vision to deliver our mission of the Best of Care by 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 vision is 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 First deployment. 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.
Detailed job description and main 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 criteria
- 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 criteria
- The post-holder will have Professional Registration with UKBHC
Experience
Essential criteria
- 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 criteria
- 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 criteria
- 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.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Malou Bengtsson-Wheeler
- Job title
- Head of Patient Experience
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01634 825175
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