Chaplain - Leominster, United Kingdom - Wye Valley NHS Trust

Wye Valley NHS Trust
Wye Valley NHS Trust
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Leominster, United Kingdom

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Chaplain, Bromyard and Leominster Community Hospital


As a chaplain, you are expected to deliver pastoral, spiritual and religious support as outlined in the NHS Chaplaincy Guidelines and working in line with the UKBHC Code of Conducts for Healthcare Chaplain.

This involves listening to and being alongside people of all faiths and beliefs including those of no faith.


You will be joining a well established, friendly and supportive multi faith team who are keen to add an excellent team player with a positive collaborative approach to complex problems.

To be a trained leader within a recognised faith community.


To visit Bromyard and Leominster Community Hospitals each week to provide pastoral and spiritual care to patients, their families and our staff.


  • To form good working relationships within each community hospital location
  • To maintain personal, spiritual and professional integrity
  • To embody the ideals and ethos of a faith led, person centred, open, inclusive, ecumenical chaplaincy service and the Trust's values of Compassion, Accountability, Respect and Excellence.
  • To meet any spiritual or religious needs for those of faith and of no faith.
  • To meet, the sacramental or spiritual needs of patients, and/or families, in the last days of life and/or in spiritual or pastoral distress.
  • When required to work with patients' own parish priests/ministers or other religious leaders, regarding their pastoral and spiritual care whilst in hospital, ensuring adherence to the Trust's policy on patient confidentiality and consent.
  • To supervise and support chaplaincy volunteers.
  • To record visits and chaplaincy records in accordance with Information Governance.
  • To comply with Trust and other policies in relation to the safeguarding of children and adults and all other mandatory training.
  • To maintain personal spiritual growth and discipline.
  • To adhere to the Code of Professional Conduct as laid down by the UKBHC.


Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire NHS FT and the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust.


Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.


We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care wed want for our family and friends.


More than 3,500 people work for the Trust they tell us it's a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.


We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.

Our values -Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time all the time.


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