Assistant Chaplain (Bank)

The Department of Pastoral and Spiritual Care at the Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is currently inviting applications to join a small but expanding group of Bank Chaplains.
To be a practitioner with limited autonomy, who works as part of a chaplaincy team and is managed by a chaplain Band 6 or above.
The Department of Pastoral and Spiritual Care is responsible for facilitating the pastoral, spiritual and religious care of patients, staff, students and visitors of the Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) and for providing specialist knowledge and expertise in matters relating to spiritual and religious beliefs, experiences and practices.
The post holder will contribute to an ecumenical and multi-faith/belief team providing spiritual, pastoral, and religious care for patients, relatives and staff in the Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust and other areas or Trusts that might be covered by service level agreements.
The post holder will work with the Head of Chaplaincy, the team of Chaplains and volunteers in facilitating the provision of care.

Our highly valued Bank Chaplains play a key role in the Chaplaincy team by augmenting the team from time to time.

The role is primarily focussed on the provision of high quality pastoral and spiritual care (including religious care when requested) to patients, their families and carers.

Opportunities arise to support the Chaplaincy team at different times, and for a variety of reasons. Typically however successful applicants may be invited to offer a minimum of 3.5 hours (1 session) between 09:00 and 16:00 from time to time, according to the needs of the service, on any day of the week, including occasional weekends.

Bank Chaplains may also be asked to be available for short periods if the Chaplaincy team require temporary additional capacity during the course of a Major Incident. Some Bank Chaplains currently participate in the 24 hour on-call rota from time to time.

You will:

• Be honest, with yourself and others, fundamentally caring and willing to be accountable within the team.
• Be willing to work in an ecumenical/multi-faith/belief team.
• Be a good listener who is comfortable being alongside people who are facing significant challenges, articulating distress, or approaching the end of their lives.
• Be able to participate in the 24 hour[1]and weekend on-call rota from time to time.
• Have previous experience of delivering Pastoral, Spiritual or Religious Care

You may also:

• Be considering working as a Healthcare Chaplain and looking to add to your experience.

Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust strongly encourages new starters to have the Covid-19 vaccine. However, it is not a mandatory requirement to work for us.

HUTH has two main sites: Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital with an annual budget of approximately £800 million. The Trust employs around 11,000 staff and serves an extended population of 1.25 million, delivering a number of outpatient services from locations across the area.

The Trust’s secondary care service portfolio is comprehensive, covering the major medical and surgical specialties, routine and specialist diagnostic services and other clinical support services. These services are provided primarily to a catchment population of approximately 600,000 in the Hull and East Riding of Yorkshire area.

HUTH provides specialist and tertiary services to a population of 1.25 million extending from Scarborough in North Yorkshire to Grimsby and Scunthorpe in North East and North Lincolnshire respectively.

For further details with regard to this vacancy opportunity, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.

For an informal conversation please contact the Revd. Tony Brookes, Head of Chaplaincy either by email at: tony.brookes@nhs.netor by telephone on 01482 674427 (Direct) or 01482 675966.

The advert will be closed as soon as sufficient applicants have been received.

Access to own transport or ability to fulfil the requirements to attend to requests to see a Chaplain within 1 hour, in the daytime and at night.