Job summary
- Main area
- Chaplaincy
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 22.5 hours per week (to include on-call plus weekends.)
- Job ref
- 427-6596442
- Employer
- Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Royal United Hospital Bath
- Town
- Bath
- Salary
- £37,338 - £44,962 per annum, pro rota
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 20/11/2024 23:59
- Interview date
- 25/11/2024
Employer heading
Team Chaplain
Band 6
Job overview
This is an exciting post as a Team Chaplain at the RUH. The Spiritual Care Team aims to provide Religious and Spiritual Care and support to patients, their family, carers and Trust staff - engaging with people of all faiths and diverse spiritualities, without prejudice, fully embracing the principles of the Equality Act 2010.
You will be an excellent team player, committed to team working and the development of other people with an ability to work on your own initiative, whilst remaining accountable to others. You will have the ability to enable others from any faith and spirituality to address their Spiritual and Religious needs in a manner consistent with their own culture, background, values and beliefs.
Main duties of the job
This role involves providing spiritual care across the Trust in clinical and non-clinical area to patients, carers, staff and volunteers. It includes responding to referrals, but also a proactive presence throughout the Trust, particularly in palliative areas. It is part of a 7-day a week on-site chpaliancy presence, with evening on-call from home urgent response service. Working as a Team is key, both within the Spiritual Care, but also alongside staff colleagues across the Trust seeking to uphold the Trust values of everyone matters, working together and making a difference.
Working for our organisation
At the RUH we put people at the heart of what we do, working together as one team to make a difference for our patients, each other, and our community. No matter what your role is, we value everyone’s contribution in supporting the exceptional, person-centred care we pride ourselves on.
We are proud to be in the top 20 best hospitals to work for in the country.
We are committed to creating a compassionate and inclusive environment. This can be seen in our growing community of staff networks – celebrating successes and creating opportunities to listen and learn. We value our differences, champion kindness and civility, and truly believe that diversity makes us stronger.
A culture of learning, developing and innovating is the thread that runs throughout our whole organisation. We want to support you to thrive, taking your career to its full potential.
We value staff wellbeing, with a well-established programme of support. We believe in a holistic approach spanning all aspects of living a healthy life, including physical, emotional, spiritual and financial wellbeing. We’ve even got a pool!
We are committed to supporting you and hope you want to join our team. In the meantime, find out more about living and working the beautiful historic city of Bath, learn about our extensive package of staff benefits, and read about how we’re providing healthcare fit for the future with the landmark Dyson Cancer Centre and our passion for research.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please find attached to the vacancy a detailed person specification and job description for further information about this role.
Person specification
Qualifications and Training
Essential criteria
- Endorsement to practice as a healthcare chaplain by a recognised/established sponsoring faith community or belief group
- Experience of Healthcare Chaplaincy
- Training in Health Care Chaplaincy
- Evidence of continuing personal and professional development.
- An undergraduate degree (or equivalent experience) with ability to demonstrate learning in a relevant field, such as counselling, pastoral care, psychology, psychotherapy, religious studies or theology
Desirable criteria
- Membership of the College of Health Care Chaplains (CHCC)
- It is not compulsory for Chaplains to be registered with UKBHC but the Professional Standards Authority for Health and Social Care recommends choosing them from an Accredited Register
- Postgraduate qualification (or equivalent experience) with demonstrable outcomes of learning relevant to healthcare chaplaincy
- Qualification (or working towards) in pastoral supervision (such as those recommended by APSE), coaching, management, or leadership
Knowledge and experience
Essential criteria
- Experience and knowledge in offering Spiritual Care in a palliative setting.
- Good presentation, training and teaching skills with an ability to engage with others.
- To be able to discern, assess and provide for the Spiritual, Emotional and Religious – of patients, relatives, and staff - whatever their philosophy, belief and value systems
- To be able to make independent, specialized judgements regarding their care.
- Knowledge of and engagement with faith/belief traditions beyond your own
- Evidence of the ability to manage time prioritizing workload including a commitment to continuity of service provision
- Engagement with safeguarding, information governance, audit, service evaluation or research
- Evidence of finding or searching for meaning through exploration of spiritual issues encountered in sickness, mental health, dying, death and bereavement
Desirable criteria
- Specialist knowledge of NHS guidance and directives on delivering Spiritual Care within the NHS.
- Specialist knowledge of all aspects of Spiritual Care and how this is applied to other faiths and cultural traditions.
- Experience of working in a team that is Ecumenical, Multi-faith and embraces diverse spiritualities.
- Experience in supervising volunteers or healthcare pastoral assistants/care workers
Values
Essential criteria
- Values and respects others, treats everyone as an individual, is non-judgemental
- Motivated to be genuinely kind and caring. Have a good sense of humour.
- Helps and co-operates with colleagues
- Pro-active and takes responsibility
- Willing to learn, open to change
- Motivated to make a difference in whatever way they can
- Takes pride in themselves, their appearance, their role and where they work.
Specific Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to work on own initiative, whilst co-ordinating a team and remaining accountable to the Lead Chaplain
- Evidence of working collaboratively, contributing to team and sustaining positive working relationships with colleagues.
- Evidence of establishing and sustaining relationships in pastorally complex and challenging environments demonstrating empathy and compassion while taking personal responsibility and initiative
- Ability to deliver care with kindness compassion dignity and respect even when own values are being challenged
- Committed to accepting and supporting others across the full Equality Diversity and Inclusion agenda from prejudice or bias
- Ability to create and lead ritual or other spiritual process in a way that is sensitive to the pastoral context and faith/belief needs of those present
- Ability to handle highly sensitive confidential or contentious information in a highly emotive or hostile atmosphere working consistently under stress
- Ability to provide Spiritual and Religious Care for the dying, critically ill and newly bereaved, including those experiencing sudden death or pregnancy loss
- Evidence of fluent and effective communication, in speech and writing, along with competence in computer skills (EPR, emails, word processing, Trust eLearning)
- To respond to all referrals to Spiritual Care Services and be willing to offer support during a Major Incident
- Practice professionally within recognised boundaries within pastorally diverse settings, and a Commitment to work within the UKBHC Code of Conduct
- A professional Chaplaincy identity rooted in one’s own religious/spiritual/pastoral heritage that integrates professional values and behaviours, skills and specialist knowledge.
- Ability to apply theoretical knowledge of ethical issues relating to health care
- Enhanced use of self in chaplaincy practice including emotional availability, cultural humility, appropriate self-disclosure, positive use of power and authority and clear and responsible boundaries
Desirable criteria
- Cultural competence and religious literacy in diverse religions, spiritual and pastoral traditions
- Ability to lead reflective practice
- Acts as an informed theological/philosophical and ethical resource in complex pastoral and clinical situations
Physical Effort and Emotional Effort
Essential criteria
- Able to walk substantial distances with long periods of standing
- A high degree of personal stability and resilience to cope with significant stress and emotional distress on a sustained basis.
- Ability to recognise and manage personal stress and to maintain clear judgements and decisions under pressure.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
- Narinder Tegally
- Job title
- Lead Chaplain
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01225824039
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