Team Chaplain | Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 22 August 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £38,682 - £46,580 per annum pro rata |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 21 September 2025 |
| Location: | Cambridge, CB2 0QQ |
| Company: | Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7432217/180-F-253114 |
Summary
We have an exciting opportunity for a Band 6 Chaplain at Cambridge University Hospitals. This is your chance to become a vital part of our compassionate and dedicated team, providing spiritual and pastoral care to our diverse patient community.
As a Band 6 Chaplain, you will play an instrumental role in offering emotional and spiritual support to patients, families, and staff from various cultural and religious backgrounds. Your empathetic nature and excellent communication skills will help foster a comforting and inclusive environment for those in need.
We are looking for someone with relevant qualifications and experience in pastoral care or chaplaincy, who is passionate about making a positive impact on the lives of others. If you have a deep understanding of the complexities of hospital life and a genuine desire to support the well-being of our patients and staff, we would love to hear from you.
At CUH the Chaplain will provide the following:
Deliver spiritual care to patients, their loved ones and staff, utilising their understanding of faith/belief, combined with their experience in pastoral care to provide person-centered support.
Work collaboratively within the Chaplaincy Team, and wider CUH teams, to ensure integrated practice, optimal care and adherence to guidelines/standard operating procedures.
Operate reflectively as a practitioner, seeking to develop their practice and be a catalyst for wider team change to the benefit of the hospital and patients we serve.
Provide compassionate, empathetic and holistic staff support to sustain wellbeing and spiritual health.
Working one to one, in groups and with teams.
To work flexibly across our service delivery locations, supporting Chaplaincy colleagues, and being responsive to the demands upon the Chaplaincy service.
To contribute towards the development and delivery of training within the Trust.
Our Trust
Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH) NHS Foundation Trust comprises Addenbrooke’s Hospital and the Rosie Hospital in Cambridge. With over 13,000 staff and over 1100 beds the priorities of the Trust focus on a quality service which is all about people – patients, staff and partners. Recognised as providing ‘outstanding’ care to our patients and rated ‘Good’ overall by the Care Quality Commissioner, is testament to the skill and dedication of the people who work here. CUH’s values – Together - Safe, Kind, Excellent – are at the heart of patient care, defining the way all staff work and behave. The Trust provides accessible high-quality healthcare for the local people of Cambridge, together with specialist services, dealing with rare or complex conditions for a regional, national and international population.
CUH is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community - a place where we can all be ourselves. We value our differences and fully advocate and support an inclusive working environment where every individual can fulfil their potential. We want to ensure our people are truly representative of all the communities that we serve. We welcome applications for all positions in the organisation irrespective of people’s age, disability, ethnicity, race, nationality, gender identity, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership status, or pregnancy and maternity status or social economic background.
Please see the attached Applicant Information Pack (combined Job Description and Person Specification) for key duties and responsibilities.
Due to Home Office immigration rules, a full time permanent vacancy cannot be filled by individuals on a Student visa. Therefore, please be advised that if you are a Student visa holder, we will not be able to offer you a full time permanent contract unless you have:
- applied for a Graduate visa
- or you will have successfully completed your course and have applied for a Graduate visa before the anticipated start date of your employment
- or the Trust has agreed that they will Sponsor you as a Skilled Worker and you will complete your studies within 3 months of the anticipated start date of employment
For NHS Cambridgeshire and Peterborough based roles, all applicants from NHS Cambridgeshire and Peterborough who have identified that they are at risk of redundancy will be prioritised over those not at risk. However, interviews cannot be guaranteed.
This vacancy will close at midnight on 3rd September 2025.
Interviews are due to be held on 15th September 2025.
Benefits to you
At Cambridge University Hospitals, we want to do all we can to support good working days. We offer development opportunities and a wide range of benefits, including on-site leisure facilities, shopping concourse and day nurseries. Our good work programme currently includes providing reduced cost Stagecoach bus travel to and from Cambridge University Hospital site. Park and Ride bus journeys between Babraham Road and Trumpington sites are free, as is the route to and from Cambridge train station and our hospitals. We also subsidise the cost of parking on site for eligible staff.
On CUH campus, hot food is available 24/7 and at a reduced cost for colleagues. Recently we launched the first of our staff pod break spaces. Located in the Deakin Centre, we have a purpose-created colleague-only café, with free tea and coffee, a break space and private outside area for colleagues to rest, refuel and recharge. Just one of the ways we are working hard to support good working days at CUH.
CUH is committed to assisting employees in achieving a good work-life balance irrespective of role or personal circumstances. Flexible arrangements may include, but are not limited to, part-time working, job-share, term-time working and flexible start and finish times.
Please note if you would like to discuss the required hours of this role further, you should approach the contact given. In some cases, alternative working hours will be considered.
We welcome applications from the Armed Forces.
This advert closes on Wednesday 3 Sep 2025