Healthcare Chaplain inLondon inLondon PUBLISHED 22 MAY 2024

To be Board Registered or eligible to be registered by the UKBHC, with postgraduate specialist Healthcare Chaplaincy qualification.
Job summary


Healthcare Chaplain



NHS AfC: Band 6


This is an exciting opportunity to be part of the Chaplaincy Team for St George's University Hospitals supporting patients, staff, carers, visitors & students within St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Hospital Chaplains are a collaborative member of the chaplaincy team in fulfilling the goal of providing person-centred spiritual and pastoral care to all patients, visitors and staff, irrespective of their religion or belief in line with local and national best practice.

Applicants must have significant previous experience within Healthcare Chaplaincy, including covering urgent out of hours calls, providing staff teaching on spiritual care, delivering patient & staff support to those of all faiths and none.

If you would like to find out more about this exciting role or to arrange an informal visit, please get in touch with Laura Hunt, Head of Chaplaincy and Spiritual Care on 020 8725 3285.

We look forward to receiving your application.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will fully participate in the urgent on-call Rota for the spiritual care needs of patients, visitors and staff.Responsibility for appropriately supervising and supporting Spiritual Care Team volunteers, care of chaplaincy resources and responsibility for the handling of donations is integral to the post.

The Chaplaincy team helps to provide spiritual, religious and pastoral support for patients, staff and visitors. The post holder will work under the supervision of the Lead Chaplain with other members of the Chaplaincy team to ensure these services are developed and delivered across the whole trust and that these are of a high quality.

You will be accredited with authority to practice by your faith or belief group and be able to practice within the United Kingdom Board for Healthcare Chaplaincy Capabilities and Competencies Framework and Code of Conduct.

About us

About us

With nearly 9,000 dedicated staff caring for patients around the clock, they are the largest healthcare provider in southwest London. The main site, St George's Hospital in Tooting - one of the country's principal teaching hospitals - is shared with St George's, University of London, which trains medical students and carries out advanced medical research. St George's Hospital also hosts the St George's, University of London and Kingston University Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences, which is responsible for training a wide range of healthcare professionals from across the region. As well as acute hospital services, they provide a wide variety of specialist care and a full range of community services to patients of all ages following integration with Community Services Wandsworth in 2.St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of 1.3 million across southwest London. A large number of services, such as cardiothoracic medicine and surgery, neurosciences and renal transplantation, also cover significant populations from Surrey and Sussex, totalling around 3.5 million people. The trust also provides care for patients from a larger catchment area in southeast England, for specialties such as complex pelvic trauma. Other services treat patients from all over the country, such as family HIV care and bone marrow transplantation for non-cancer diseases. The trust also provides a nationwide state-of-the-art endoscopy training centre.

Job description

Job responsibilities

*****Please see the attached supporting document which contains more information about the role*****

Job description
Job responsibilities

*****Please see the attached supporting document which contains more information about the role*****

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

  • Significant previous experience within Healthcare Chaplaincy, including covering urgent out of hours calls, providing staff teaching on spiritual care, delivering patient & staff support to those of all faiths and none.
  • To be Board Registered or eligible to be registered by the UKBHC, with postgraduate specialist Healthcare Chaplaincy qualification
  • Broad knowledge of faith and belief systems to be able to work in a multicultural/multi-faith and belief context.
Desirable

  • Knowledge of the ways in which other professions work within the health care setting.
Qualifications

Essential

  • An established and appropriately qualified chaplain in good standing with and representative of their faith community.
  • If of a specific faith group that requires it, is eligible to be authorised/ licensed by that group to operate within their tradition.
  • Educated to Honours degree level.
Desirable

  • Counselling or coaching qualification or equivalent training.
Person Specification
Experience

Essential

  • Significant previous experience within Healthcare Chaplaincy, including covering urgent out of hours calls, providing staff teaching on spiritual care, delivering patient & staff support to those of all faiths and none.
  • To be Board Registered or eligible to be registered by the UKBHC, with postgraduate specialist Healthcare Chaplaincy qualification
  • Broad knowledge of faith and belief systems to be able to work in a multicultural/multi-faith and belief context.
Desirable

  • Knowledge of the ways in which other professions work within the health care setting.
Qualifications

Essential

  • An established and appropriately qualified chaplain in good standing with and representative of their faith community.
  • If of a specific faith group that requires it, is eligible to be authorised/ licensed by that group to operate within their tradition.
  • Educated to Honours degree level.
Desirable

  • Counselling or coaching qualification or equivalent training.
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.
UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see

Additional information
UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see

Employer details

Employer name

St George's Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Address

St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Blackshaw Road

Tooting

SW17 0QT

Employer's website
Job summary

Healthcare Chaplain


NHS AfC: Band 6


This is an exciting opportunity to be part of the Chaplaincy Team for St George's University Hospitals supporting patients, staff, carers, visitors & students within St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Hospital Chaplains are a collaborative member of the chaplaincy team in fulfilling the goal of providing person-centred spiritual and pastoral care to all patients, visitors and staff, irrespective of their religion or belief in line with local and national best practice.

Applicants must have significant previous experience within Healthcare Chaplaincy, including covering urgent out of hours calls, providing staff teaching on spiritual care, delivering patient & staff support to those of all faiths and none.

If you would like to find out more about this exciting role or to arrange an informal visit, please get in touch with Laura Hunt, Head of Chaplaincy and Spiritual Care on 020 8725 3285.

We look forward to receiving your application.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will fully participate in the urgent on-call Rota for the spiritual care needs of patients, visitors and staff.Responsibility for appropriately supervising and supporting Spiritual Care Team volunteers, care of chaplaincy resources and responsibility for the handling of donations is integral to the post.

The Chaplaincy team helps to provide spiritual, religious and pastoral support for patients, staff and visitors. The post holder will work under the supervision of the Lead Chaplain with other members of the Chaplaincy team to ensure these services are developed and delivered across the whole trust and that these are of a high quality.

You will be accredited with authority to practice by your faith or belief group and be able to practice within the United Kingdom Board for Healthcare Chaplaincy Capabilities and Competencies Framework and Code of Conduct.

About us

About us

With nearly 9,000 dedicated staff caring for patients around the clock, they are the largest healthcare provider in southwest London. The main site, St George's Hospital in Tooting - one of the country's principal teaching hospitals - is shared with St George's, University of London, which trains medical students and carries out advanced medical research. St George's Hospital also hosts the St George's, University of London and Kingston University Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences, which is responsible for training a wide range of healthcare professionals from across the region. As well as acute hospital services, they provide a wide variety of specialist care and a full range of community services to patients of all ages following integration with Community Services Wandsworth in 2.St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of 1.3 million across southwest London. A large number of services, such as cardiothoracic medicine and surgery, neurosciences and renal transplantation, also cover significant populations from Surrey and Sussex, totalling around 3.5 million people. The trust also provides care for patients from a larger catchment area in southeast England, for specialties such as complex pelvic trauma. Other services treat patients from all over the country, such as family HIV care and bone marrow transplantation for non-cancer diseases. The trust also provides a nationwide state-of-the-art endoscopy training centre.

Job description

Job responsibilities

*****Please see the attached supporting document which contains more information about the role*****

Job description
Job responsibilities

*****Please see the attached supporting document which contains more information about the role*****

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

  • Significant previous experience within Healthcare Chaplaincy, including covering urgent out of hours calls, providing staff teaching on spiritual care, delivering patient & staff support to those of all faiths and none.
  • To be Board Registered or eligible to be registered by the UKBHC, with postgraduate specialist Healthcare Chaplaincy qualification
  • Broad knowledge of faith and belief systems to be able to work in a multicultural/multi-faith and belief context.
Desirable

  • Knowledge of the ways in which other professions work within the health care setting.
Qualifications

Essential

  • An established and appropriately qualified chaplain in good standing with and representative of their faith community.
  • If of a specific faith group that requires it, is eligible to be authorised/ licensed by that group to operate within their tradition.
  • Educated to Honours degree level.
Desirable

  • Counselling or coaching qualification or equivalent training.
Person Specification
Experience

Essential

  • Significant previous experience within Healthcare Chaplaincy, including covering urgent out of hours calls, providing staff teaching on spiritual care, delivering patient & staff support to those of all faiths and none.
  • To be Board Registered or eligible to be registered by the UKBHC, with postgraduate specialist Healthcare Chaplaincy qualification
  • Broad knowledge of faith and belief systems to be able to work in a multicultural/multi-faith and belief context.
Desirable

  • Knowledge of the ways in which other professions work within the health care setting.
Qualifications

Essential

  • An established and appropriately qualified chaplain in good standing with and representative of their faith community.
  • If of a specific faith group that requires it, is eligible to be authorised/ licensed by that group to operate within their tradition.
  • Educated to Honours degree level.
Desirable

  • Counselling or coaching qualification or equivalent training.
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.
UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see

Additional information
UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see

Employer details

Employer name

St George's Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Address

St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Blackshaw Road

Tooting

SW17 0QT

Employer's website


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