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.
In order to increase the diversity of our religious, spiritual and pastoral care service, we have Bank/Additional Staffing Roles available across the Trust offering the opportunity to work in a variety of mental health inpatient services to increase and enhance the spiritual & pastoral care to service users, carers and staff within Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust. The Trust has a wide range of mental health, older adult, learning disability, drugs & alcohol, physical health community services and secure forensic units across Merseyside. The postholder will be based at sites across the Trust including Liverpool, Sefton & Warrington. There will be a requirement to travel throughout the Trust footprint.
The post holder 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 in order to provide or enable the provision of appropriate religious, spiritual & pastoral care to people of all faith 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.
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.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable, and efficient. 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 and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Niall Cotter Job title: Senior Chaplain Email address: Niall.Cotter@merseycare.nhs.uk Telephone number: 07867447195. If unable to get through to Niall via telephone, please leave a voice message and Niall will return your call as soon as possible.
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