Chaplain

Job Overview

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust has three main sites: Frimley Park Hospital in Frimley, Surrey; Wexham Park Hospital in Slough, Berkshire; and Heatherwood Hospital in Ascot, Berkshire. The Trust also provides services from a number of satellite sites including Farnham Hospital and Heathlands Centre in Bracknell and Fleet Community Hospital.

We are looking for an enthusiastic, highly motivated, and experienced individual to be based at Wexham Park Hospital in Slough. Experience working in pastoral care is an essential requirement.

They will join the Trust-wide Chaplaincy Department of Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust. The Chaplaincy Department provides pastoral, spiritual and religious care to patients, their relatives and carers and staff within the Trust. They will work as a generic chaplain and their approach will be person-centred and collaborative. Working well within a team is central to the role. You will work with the Lead Chaplain and the current team of Chaplains and Trust Volunteers.

Previous applicants need not apply.

Main duties of the job

Your Role Will Involve

• Working with the current team of Chaplains and Trust Chaplaincy Volunteers in extending the provision of care in challenging situations.
• Providing specialist knowledge and expertise in matters relating to spiritual and religious beliefs, experiences and practices.
• Sharing in daytime weekday duties which are from 8am to 4pm.
• Sharing in the out of hours on-call rota and working as a generic chaplain able to respond to the needs of people of all faiths and beliefs, noting that the majority of calls are for Anglican and Roman Catholic patients;
• You will primarily at Wexham Park Hospital but be expected to work cross-site depending on operational needs.
  
  

Working for our organisation

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.

Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.

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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

For a full list of responsibilities and tasks associated with this role, please refer to the job description/person specification attached to this vacancy.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• A member of a member church of Churches Together England and in good standing
• Bachelor’s Degree level or higher in Theology
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Ordained, authorised or licenced faith leader
• Counselling skills Qualification
• Accredited training course in healthcare chaplaincy
• CHCC Membership
  
  

Experience

Essential criteria

• Substantial, recent pastoral experience in local faith/belief community setting or equivalent
• Substantial management of volunteers in local faith/belief community setting or equivalent
• Experienced in crisis work e.g. pastoral care traumatic injury or death, or in the event of a major incident
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Experience of collaborative working in a multi-faith/belief setting
• Experience of working as a permanent staff member in health care chaplaincy in an NHS setting
  
  

Skills and knowledge

Essential criteria

• Sufficient experience and understanding of spiritual, religious and pastoral care in the healthcare chaplaincy setting
• Able to support and facilitate sacraments/rites and spiritual needs according to service user’s own faith/belief group
• Skilled at using Microsoft Office
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Understanding of current issues in the NHS
• Able to facilitate services of worship in a wide variety of settings
  
  

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.

We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.

We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.

Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.

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