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Chaplain
| Posting date: | 01 May 2025 |
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| Salary: | £37,338.00 to £44,962.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £37338.00 - £44962.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 15 May 2025 |
| Location: | Wigan, WN1 2NN |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9302-25-0287 |
Summary
To share in general visiting on the wards and departments to provide pastoral, spiritual and religious care to patients, relatives and staff of all faiths, beliefs and none. To support the Manager when dealing with complex issues as they might arise within the chaplaincy and spiritual care team. Conduct contract funerals. Provide support for staff and schedule time for staff as service users. Assessing and respond to staff pastoral and spiritual needs (individual or collective). To work sensitively and collaboratively with the patients own Priest/Minister/Faith Leader to meet the holistic pastoral needs of their parishioners. Capability to deal with complex issues both systematically and creatively, make sound judgments, and take personal responsibility and initiative. Workload prioritisation, time management and the capacity to incorporate new challenges, and to support managing projects. Fluent and effective communicator in speech and writing. Demonstrable communication skills to communicate with individuals in a variety of complex encounters. Self-assured, friendly and professional approach to working with colleagues, the capability to work independently and collaboratively. Participate in a range of cases supporting the manager to deliver effective pastoral and spiritual care. Participate in reflective practice with a range of groups. Capability to deal with persons requiring mental health wellbeing support and referral to the appropriate resources to aid management. Communication with healthcare professionals in multidisciplinary discussions. Communicating with patients and their families/carers in complex and often sensitive situations. To assist in preparing and conducting services of public worship, to facilitate private prayer as appropriate and to administer religious rites appropriate to the person's faith group or belief and those of no belief. To participate in the provision of 24hr chaplaincy on call cover, assist in team rosters and planning of team resources to provide chaplaincy and spiritual care support. To support the chaplaincy and spiritual care team including volunteers in the performance of their duties, fostering productive and positive working relationships. To build and maintain effective relationships with clinical teams and departments and wards within the trust. Participate projects and operational groups as directed by the Chaplaincy & Spiritual Care Manager. Contribute to internal education and training programmes and internal/external voluntary and healthcare groups. Assist in introducing what healthcare chaplaincy is to another team/ service within WWL NHS FT. Participate in Induction programmes for new trust staff. Participate in education and training sessions as part of the trust education and training programmes. Assist in preparing education and training materials for use by others to support the management of the chaplaincy provision to education and training. Full time 37.5hrs Ability to travel independently across Trust sites in accordance with organisation policies and service need. Ability to attend an urgent on-call referral.