Chaplain Anglican Priest - Stevenage, United Kingdom - East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust

East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust

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Stevenage, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

We are recruiting for a Chaplain Anglican Priest who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients

You will work as an integral member of the Spiritual and Pastoral Care Team to ensure that the spiritual and religious needs of both Anglican patients, and others, whatever their faith or belief, are cared for whilst in hospital at any of the Trust's or SLA sites.

You will provide specialist input and advice to staff on caring for the spiritual and religious needs of Anglican patients, will take contract funeral services following pregnancy loss for women and others on request, and will join and work closely with other members of the Multi-Faith & Belief Team in developing and delivering training on spiritual care to other healthcare professionals.

Must be able to travel between sites and respond to Out of Hours Call-Outs and be in attendance, at Mount Vernon or Stevenage, within one hour.

Our Values areInclude,Respect andImprove. It is important that you understand and refer to our values during your recruitment process and beyond

Proven ability to work as part of an Ecumenical team and to manage own workload.

Ability to minister compassionately in challenging situations.

Excellent listening skills

Ability to maintain professional boundaries as per best practice in the NHS

Ability to assess the spiritual and religious needs of both Anglican / non-Anglican patients, and to develop provision in collaboration with the team lead.

Work to NHS understandings of confidentiality, in assisting and advising local parishes in respect of their pastoral care of parishioners in hospital.

At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care.

Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

We run the following hospitals:

The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
Hertford County, Hertford
Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients.

We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees.

This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests.

Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification information pack for further detailed information regarding this role.