Band 5
Main area: Chaplaincy Grade Band 5
Contract: Bank Hours
Flexible working: 0 hours per week (As and When Required)
Job ref: 350-TWSBANK6972065
Site: Hollins Park Hospital
Town: Winwick
Salary: £29,970 - £36,483 pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 24/02/2025 23:59
Interview date: 26/02/2025
Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust celebrates diversity and promotes equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect.
We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and particularly encourage applications from ethnic minorities, disabled and LGBTQIA+ people that are under-represented in our workforce. We welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces personnel as we recognise the benefits of the values, skills, training and experience that they bring to their work with us.
Job overview
The Spiritual and Pastoral Care Team provides religious, spiritual and non-religious pastoral care to service users, carers and staff throughout Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust.
This innovative team is led by the Director of Social Health & Community Inclusion with Senior and Co-ordinating Chaplains managing the provision within their service areas, supported by Chaplains/Pastoral Support Workers and in some areas religious & non-religious Volunteers.
Main duties of the job
The postholder will have responsibility for providing pastoral and spiritual or religious care as required, and where appropriate offering, or referring service users to faith-based ministry and worship or to appropriate non-religious care and support networks. The post holder will work in collaboration with other members of the team, mental health professionals, local faith representatives, and professional visitors to provide or enable the provision of appropriate religious, spiritual & pastoral care to people of all faiths and those of no religion or belief. They will be expected to support the team’s work around quality and innovation.
We would particularly encourage applications from Buddhist, Jewish, Pagan, Humanist and multifaith candidates.
Working for our organisation
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales, and the Midlands.
We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Applicants must be either:
An established and active member of any recognised faith tradition, experienced in spiritual and pastoral care, of “good standing” in their tradition in accordance with the Practical Guide – Endorsement of NHS Pastoral, Spiritual and Religious (Chaplaincy) Staff and Volunteers and formally accredited to lead worship within their tradition.
OR
An experienced Pastoral Support Worker, accredited, or with the ability to be accredited, as a member in good standing by the Non-Religious Pastoral Support Network in accordance with the Practical Guide – Endorsement of NHS Pastoral, Spiritual and Religious (Chaplaincy) Staff and Volunteers.
Knowledge and awareness of professional boundaries is essential. Applicants will be flexible and imaginative innovators capable of implementing new ideas and practices for enhancing spiritual, religious, and non-religious care in mental health settings.
All candidates must have excellent communication skills both verbal and written and a good standard of IT capability. All candidates must be committed to working in a multi-faith and belief, ecumenical and inter-disciplinary context.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Degree level or equivalent experience in a relevant area.
* Evidence of ongoing professional development.
* Counselling Qualification.
Knowledge
* Knowledge of current issues relevant to mental health.
* A person capable of being approved for ministry by a Recognised Faith Tradition.
* Knowledge of recovery approaches within mental health.
* Knowledge of co-production principles.
* Knowledge of the dynamics of team working within a chaplaincy setting.
Experience
* Experience of working within a team.
* Demonstrable pastoral experience in a healthcare setting.
* Mental Health/Learning Disability/Addictions experience.
* Experience of working within a therapeutic setting.
* Experience of managing change.
* Experience of multi-disciplinary working.
Values
* Accountability.
* Support.
* High professional standards.
* Responsive to service users.
* Engaging leadership style.
* Transparency and honesty.
* Discreet.
* Change-oriented.
* Active member of their faith community or an active member of an organisation that has non-religious beliefs that are serious, genuinely and sincerely held.
Skills
* Strong interpersonal skills.
* Ability to understand boundaries surrounding professional roles.
* Ability and willingness to work in an ecumenical and multi-faith team.
Please ensure you check the email account from which you apply for all correspondence. All information regarding your application will come from apps.trac.jobs not NHS Jobs.
Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants who consider themselves to be disabled who meet the minimum (essential) criteria for the role in the person specification.
Should you require a reasonable adjustment to our recruitment process please email recruitment@merseycare.nhs.uk.
The Trust expects all post holders who require an enhanced DBS for their role to subscribe to the DBS Update Service.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Name: Niall Cotter
Job title: Senior Chaplain
Email address: Niall.Cotter@merseycare.nhs.uk
Telephone number: 07867447195
FULFIL YOUR POTENTIAL AND SPREAD YOUR WINGS WITH MERSEY CARE
At Mersey Care, our commitment to ‘perfect care’ lies at the heart of everything we do, a person-centred care that starts with you.
You’ll be joining one of the most innovative and progressive NHS trusts in the country.
You’ll have a home in the North West of England where your work/life balance is respected.
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