Hospital Chaplain

We are looking for an enthusiastic, highly motivated and experienced healthcare chaplain with a track record of providing spiritual, pastoral and religious care (SPaRC) in an NHS healthcare setting. This role will involve supporting the development, delivery and implementation of the Trust's Spiritual Care Policy.

You will be a Trust resource providing specialist knowledge and expertise on matters relating to spiritual and religious beliefs, pastoral and ethical issues. You will always seek to uphold the Trust values of Excellent, Kind and Together.

This role requires working across the Trust in clinical and non-clinical areas with patients, staff and visitors. It includes responding to referrals and being a proactive presence on the wards. You will provide a flexible, responsive service of spiritual, pastoral, and religious care to patients, visitors and staff whatever their beliefs, culture or lifestyle.

Working as a team; with your Chaplaincy colleagues, alongside internal Trust staff and with external faith and belief communities you will provide high quality SPaRC care.

As part of the 24/7 provision that the Chaplaincy Service provides you will work across a 7 day a week rota providing an on-site chaplaincy presence; (core hours 08:30-16:30) with emergency out of hour on-call; (16:30-08:30) from home., The chaplain supports the development, delivery and implementation of the Trust's Spiritual Care Policy which provides spiritual, pastoral and religious care to patients, staff and visitors of UHNM Trust.

The Chaplain provides high quality pastoral, spiritual and religious care to service users of all faith and beliefs.

The Chaplain provides specialist knowledge and expertise in matters relating to spiritual and religious beliefs, experiences, practices and ethical issues.

The chaplain contributes to a high quality of bereavement care being provided by the Trust.

The chaplain supports the development of sustainable and creative relationships between their own faith/belief community and the UHNM Trust.

University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust is one of the largest and most modern in the country. Based across two sites, Royal Stoke in Stoke-on-Trent and County Hospital in Stafford, we are proud to serve around three million people and we're highly regarded for our facilities, teaching and research. We are the specialist centre for major trauma for the North Midlands and North Wales.

All of our employees make a valuable contribution regardless of role here at UHNM and we are proud of our wide range of development packages aimed at ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to fulfil their true potential.

UHNM create and encourage a culture of inclusion, providing equal opportunities for career development that are fair and transparent. We are committed to being a diverse and inclusive employer and foster a culture in which all staff feel valued and respected. In return we ask all of our employees to make a commitment to the values, co-created by or staff, patients and carers, and that unite us as a Trust.

At University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust we know that investing in, supporting and developing our staff has a direct impact on the quality of care that we deliver. Our employees are as important as our patients and the population that we serve.