Chaplain @ Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust

Job summary

Are you looking for an opportunity where you can have a real impact on patients, their loved ones and your colleagues?

Our chaplaincy team is seeking a Hospital Chaplain to join them in Norfolk, to help grow and shape the pastoral, spiritual and religious service we provide across Norfolk and Suffolk.

You'll be joining a small, collaborative team and will be supported with supervision.

This is a full time opportunity, however we can be flexible around the working days. You'll be covering the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk so must be able to travel between different locations.

It is integral that you are open minded and prepared to work with patients, their relatives and friends, and staff and students; whatever their cultural and faith tradition, for the purpose of pastoral, spiritual and religious care.

Although there will be a lot of independent working, there will also be an expectation to support with the development of volunteers into the chaplaincy team; something we are very passionate about.

If you're suitably qualified and seeking an opportunity to work alongside inspiring, compassionate individuals - we'd love to hear from you!

Main duties of the job

As chaplain, you will

• Help develop, maintain and provide a comprehensive spiritual and pastoral care service in Norfolk and Suffolk.
• You will help develop and promote a multi-disciplinary approach to care which recognises the importance of spirituality in mental health care
• You will develop and maintain a resource of faith group leaders and workers in providing for the care of their faith group members who are Trust service users, carers or staff.
• You may have the opportunity to supervise and train spiritual and pastoral care team volunteers and student / ministerial placements as required.
• You will help manage appropriate resources for the spiritual, religious and pastoral care of service users, carers and staff, including the provision of sacred spaces for worship and personal reflection.

About us

Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing experiences and learning from each other. In addition to ongoing training and development opportunities, we are committed to providing an environment in which you can thrive.

Why work for us? We are an improving Trust, with ambitious aspirations and pushing ahead with exciting transformation work. We have strong, established nursing networks coupled with an exceptional leadership team who will ensure you are truly cared for and cared about.

Why Norfolk and Suffolk? The people here are warm and welcoming, you'll never be far from the beautiful coastline or Broads National Park. We're an hour and a half away from London and have an international airport in Norwich too. Our villages, towns and cities are packed full of history, independent cafes, shops and theatres. We have excellent shopping, eating out, top ranking schooling and affordable house prices too.

Benefits

Benefits included with this role are:-

• NHS pension
• a comprehensive in house & external training programmes
• career progression
• starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays)
• staff physio service
• NHS discounts and many more
• Relocation packages.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY!

Interview dates are yet to be set; you will be contacted via email and invited to book a time. These emails may go to your SPAM, so please keep checking all your emails if applying.

Previous Applicants Need Not Apply

Person Specification

Skills

Essential

• Excellent written, verbal and non-verbal communication skills
• Strong interpersonal skills
• IT/computer literate
• Self-motivated
• Teaching / training skills
• Able to work with empathic awareness in stressful environments

Desirable

• Specialist communication skills
• Supervisory skills

Experience

Essential

• Experience of pastoral ministry (or equivalent).
• Experience of working within a team.
• Experience of multi-disciplinary working.

Desirable

• Experience as a mental health chaplain.
• Pastoral experience in the NHS.
• Working in a mental health related context.
• Working in specialist areas e.g. forensic psychiatry, dementia care.
• Experience working in a busy NHS environment

Qualifications

Essential

• Accredited training and licensing with authority to practice as a faith group leader and/or pastoral worker, or comparable e.g. accredited humanist celebrant.
• Accredited training in pastoral care or other relevant discipline.

Desirable

• Authority to practise as a chaplain by a recognised faith group.
• Accredited training in healthcare chaplaincy.
• Professional education in relevant discipline.
• Member of the Council of Professional Chaplains and Pastoral Carers (CPCPC) (previously UK Board for Healthcare Chaplains (UKBHC))

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 (Opens in a new tab).

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 (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust

Address

Hellesdon Hospital - Norfolk & Suffolk

Norfolk & Suffolk

NR6 5BE

United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://www.nsft.nhs.uk/Pages/Home.aspx (Opens in a new tab)