Chaplain

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust has three main sites: Frimley Park Hospital in Frimley, Surrey; Wexham Park Hospital in Slough, Berkshire; and Heatherwood Hospital in Ascot, Berkshire. The Trust also provides services from a number of satellite sites including Farnham Hospital and Heathlands Centre in Bracknell and Fleet Community Hospital.

We are looking for an enthusiastic, highly motivated, and experienced individual. They will have their main base at Frimley Park Hospital. Experience working in healthcare chaplaincy is an essential requirement.

They will join the Trust-wide Chaplaincy Department of Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust. The Chaplaincy Department provides pastoral, spiritual and religious care to patients, their relatives and carers and staff within the Trust. They will work as a generic chaplain and their approach will be person-centred and collaborative. Working well within a team is central to the role and You will work with the Lead Chaplain and the current team of Chaplains and Trust Volunteers.

Your role will involve:

• Working with the current team of Chaplains and Trust Chaplaincy Volunteers in extending the provision of care in challenging situations.
• Providing specialist knowledge and expertise in matters relating to spiritual and religious beliefs, experiences and practices.
• Sharing in daytime weekday duties which are from 8am to 4pm.
• Sharing in the Sunday duties of the Chaplaincy team at least once per month. This would include the 9am morning Eucharist or Communion by extension Service and ministry at the bedside supported by our team of Chaplaincy Volunteers.
• Sharing in the out of hours On-call rota and working as a generic chaplain able to respond to the needs of people of all faiths and beliefs, noting that the majority of calls are for Church of England and Roman Catholic patients;
• You will primarily at Frimley Park Hospital but be expected to work cross-site depending on operational needs.

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.

We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.

Our threecore values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other,Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.

We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital's NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties

Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for main responsibilities of this role.