Band 7 Lead Chaplain Birmingham, England
Job description
Job overview
An exciting opportunity to join a thriving and developing multi-faith hospital Chaplaincy Service. The post holder will lead and manage the chaplaincy and spiritual care team through its next stage of development and beyond.
The Chaplaincy department is responsible for facilitating the pastoral, spiritual and religious care of patients their family, staff, students, volunteers and visitors of the University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Trust, regardless of their faith or belief.
The role will work to ensure that the spiritual, religious and pastoral needs of patients, their family, visitors and staff are met effectively, within a framework of individual choice, appropriate to their cultural and religious expression, to the highest standard of care and pastoral support, and within available resources.
The postholder will have exceptional listening and communication skills with a vision and a strong sense of vocation to lead our Chaplaincy and Spiritual Care Team.
We have a clear vision, and you could be part of this! If you share our values and you want to make a difference to the lives of our patients and their families and carers, and our staff we would love to hear from you.
Main duties, tasks & skills required
The post holder will ensure that the spiritual, religious and pastoral needs of patients, their family, students, visitors and staff are met effectively, within a framework of client choice, appropriate to their cultural, spiritual and religious expression, to the highest standard of care, and within available resources.
As Lead Chaplain be responsible for the operational development, oversight and implementation of spiritual, religious and pastoral care provision throughout the University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Trust within Chaplaincy standards and in line with the Trust's chaplaincy policy and Trust objectives.
To visit patients, carers, relatives and staff of designated wards and departments regularly and, when requested, to care for the seriously ill, the dying and the bereaved in consultation with medical and nursing staff; to maintain the quality of service as expressed through the relevant standards.
The postholder will have exceptional listening and communication skills with a vision and a strong sense of vocation to lead our Chaplaincy and Spiritual Care Team.
The post holder will support a number of improvement projects in relation to patient and staff experience across the Trust.
About us
We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this.
Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to:
Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can;
Offer our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives.
UHB is committed to ensuring that our staff are treated fairly and feel that they belong, by creating a kind and inclusive environment. This is about equity of opportunity; removing all barriers, including discrimination and ensuring each individual member of staff reach their true potential, achieve their ambitions and thrive in their work. This is more than words. We are taking action. Our commitment to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation where every voice is heard, driven by our diverse and active staff networks, and at Board level by the Fairness Taskforce led by our CEO. We nurture a culture which empowers staff to challenge discriminatory behaviours and to enable people to bring their 'whole self' to a kinder, more connected and bold place to work.
Job description
*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential
- The post holder must be from the faith
/ belief-specific background as outlined in the
faith specific appendix
- The post-holder will be in good
standing within, and authorised, licensed or
sponsored by their faith / belief-specific
background as required by job role
- University accredited Degree level
theological training or equivalent knowledge
according to their faith / spiritual tradition.
- Postgraduate qualification or
equivalent experience in a chaplaincy-related
discipline
- Eligible to be authorised by
appropriate faith or belief group to practise as
a healthcare chaplain.
Experience
Essential
Significant and demonstrable
experience of working as a healthcare
Chaplain with additional experience of
offering formal pastoral care in a
recognised, professional capacity.
- Demonstrable experience in providing
pastoral care within one's own faith
tradition.
- Experience of the multi-cultural,
religious and spiritual dimensions of
health care.
- Experience of complex ethical,
theological and pastoral issues that
may arise in a healthcare setting.
- Strong understanding of their own
faith/spiritual tradition, with ability to
articulate this clearly whilst respecting
and working with those of differing
traditions.
- Experience of working collaboratively
- Knowledge and experience of the
implementation of audit, service evaluation
and research in relation to national and local
guidance.
within a team
- Experience of teaching and training
others.
- Active participant within their own faith
/ spiritual community.
- Excellent knowledge of issues relating
to spiritual, religious and pastoral care
- Knowledge of national policy and
guidance relating to the managing of
an effective chaplaincy service
- A breadth of knowledge sufficient to
contribute to specialist and higher
education training programmes in
spiritual, religious and pastoral care.
- Knowledge sufficient to develop
methods and procedures for
appropriate and informed methods of
spiritual assessment for use by the
healthcare team and chaplaincy team.
- Knowledge sufficient to assess and
seek to meet the complex spiritual and
needs of individuals and to record
assessments, interventions and
referral to others in the patient
information systems.
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.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants.
