An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Department Pastoral and Spiritual Care serving the new Humber Health Partnership Group Structure at Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) and Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLaG) as a Band 6 WTE Trust Chaplain. (full time, part time/job share would be considered).
A core element of the role will be the engagement with patients, carers, their families, and staff, as a Chaplaincy practitioner, primarily within the Trust, but across the Group to meet exceptional operational need. This will include full participation in the on-call rota to provide 24 hours/365-day Chaplaincy cover to the Trust/Group as required. As a Trust Chaplain you will have knowledge and experience about your tradition which is relevant to Chaplaincy. You will also need a working knowledge of other faiths/beliefs and philosophies. You will play a key role in implementing high quality Pastoral and Spiritual Care opportunities, utilising appropriate systems and processes to ensure the effective and efficient day to day delivery of Pastoral and Spiritual Care.
Applicants are likely to have experience of effectively communicating the importance of high-quality Pastoral and Spiritual Care to peers and senior colleagues utilising demonstrably well-developed communication skills. Candidates will need to be well grounded in their own faith/belief group tradition, and able to demonstrate respect for the validity of people of all faiths/beliefs (including those who espouse no faith or belief). The successful candidate is likely to have an awareness of current challenges in the NHS, and the evolving place of Pastoral and Spiritual Care. They will also demonstrate experience of developing and delivering high quality and effective pastoral and spiritual care in either an NHS, or social care setting, and demonstrable recent experience of designing and delivering effective training programmes.
Working closely with all colleagues, and the designated Site Lead Chaplain, you will play a key role in the promotion, development, and provision of Spiritual and Pastoral Care within the Trust, remaining cognisant with current research in Chaplaincy/Pastoral and Spiritual Care. You will be primarily based on the South Bank (Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLaG))but some travel within the Group may be required. You will need to ensure that your day-to-day Pastoral and Spiritual Care delivery is consistent with UKBHC Standards, and Codes of Practice, as well as current or future NHS Chaplaincy Guidelines.
NLAG is part of one of the largest acute and community Group arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.
Made up of two Trusts - Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) - our Group has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.
Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.
As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas - biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.
We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Group and our community.
Should we receive a high volume of applications the advert may be closed earlier than stated.
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As a Trust we are keen to offer and encourage flexible working opportunities to address health and wellbeing and work-life balance for our employees, this will have a positive impact on the care we provide.
Flexible working is part of a wider commitment to improve the quality and experience of working life and we recognise that it is a key contributor for the recruitment and retention of our employees.
We therefore support and encourage open conversations around a specific working pattern to suit your work-life balance or a multi-role career, if it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.
Local flexible working arrangements are developed in partnership between the line manager and employee in order to ensure equality of access to flexible working, as far as practicable, regardless of role, shift pattern, team or pay, based on: patient/service user and staff experience, service delivery and work-life balance of colleagues.
We are committed to creating and maintaining a fair and supportive working environment and culture, where contributions are fully recognised and valued by all and staff feel empowered to carry out their duties to the best of their abilities. As employers we are committed to promoting and protecting the physical and mental health and well-being of all our staff. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution, supports us to be an Employer of Choice and ultimately enables our employees to support the effective care of our patients.
We strongly value the different perspectives and ideas a diverse workforce brings to deliver better outcomes for our patients. We welcome applications irrespective of people’s age, disability, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.
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This advert closes on Tuesday 18 Mar 2025