Chaplain

at  Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

KEY TASKS & Responsibilities: Contribute to the effective working of the Spiritual and Pastoral Care team: o Respond to referral by assessing the pastoral, spiritual and religious needs. Where the assessed needs require a religious response that is different from the Chaplain’s, the Chaplain will refer to an appropriate staff Chaplain or a representative from the individuals faith community or belief group. Ensure good communication and collaboration with all members of the Chaplaincy Department. Follow established procedures and policies.
To share in the provision of 24-hour on-call cover; making decisions using own initiative about spiritual needs in crisis situations; responding to emergency calls in week and weekend night-times while meeting the required response time. This dimension includes responsibility for putting the opening phases of the FHFT Major Incident Plan into action for Spiritual and Pastoral Care when required. Share in the daytime duty rota (8am to 4pm Monday to Friday) o Share in the daytime Sunday duty rota (8am to 1pm) with the frequency of this duty being agreed with the Lead Chaplain o Receive and respond to referrals from members of the healthcare team. To visit wards and departments on a regular basis during daytime hours.
Share in the maintenance of the spaces for prayer and reflection and the provision of resources for worship and spiritual expression. Assist in the planning of the work of Chaplaincy Volunteers. Participate in particular projects and operational groups as directed by the Lead Chaplain. Prepare and disseminate briefing material, reports and liturgical material as directed by the Lead Chaplain.
Assist with Chaplaincy service developments, including Major Incident planning and implementation. Be an affirming and supportive presence within the Trust. Contribute to audit and research within Chaplaincy practice. Provide pastoral and spiritual care: Assess spiritual health and wellbeing needs, develop spiritual care plans, and keep written and electronic records.
Manage referrals and determine a timely response. Maintain confidentiality and obtain informed consent. Provide or facilitate spiritual and pastoral care sensitive to the cultural, faith and belief realities of the diversity of service users, including identifying language needs and accessing interpreting services. Protect individuals from all unwanted visits, including visits from faith community or belief group representatives, and communicate this to third parties as appropriate.
Maintain effective and consistent links with designated clinical areas. Work collaboratively alongside other professionals of all grades. Articulate need on behalf of an individual when required. Provide or facilitate religious care: Deliver ritual consistent with ones own faith or belief tradition.
Devise, co-ordinate and lead ritual to meet particular needs (e.g., memorial services for staff; bespoke ceremonies for those who have experienced an early pregnancy loss.) Perform ritual interventions connected with crisis according to the needs of users and consistent with the permissions and practice of ones own faith or belief community (e.g., the baptism of seriously ill babies; the sacrament of the sick.) Conduct Trust funerals. Organise rites and sacraments that cannot be undertaken by the post holder to be administered by a suitable colleague or community faith/belief leader. Make referrals to appropriate faith/belief leaders and community ministers of religion at the patients request and with their consent. Establish effective links with faith/belief leaders in the community.
Record all assessments and interventions in Trust information systems. Assist in maintaining an accessible and high-quality provision of resources for worship and spiritual expression appropriate to the diversity of users of all faiths and none. Provide support for staff: Model working relationships that respect the integrity of others. Schedule time for staff support.
Assess and respond to staff pastoral and spiritual needs (individual or collective.) Respect confidence in responding to requests for personal support from members of staff and volunteers. Maintain awareness of issues, changes and conditions that may affect staff wellbeing. Collaborate with other relevant departments in promoting staff wellbeing. Identify other sources of staff support and, with consent, facilitate referral.
Providing training and education: Identify the learning needs of self and others. Contribute to the planning and delivery of learning opportunities. Contribute to the selection, training and supervision of Trust Chaplaincy Volunteers. Train and oversee trainee chaplains and pastoral care placement students.
Contribute to Trust and/or Departmental Induction Programme for new staff. Present education and training sessions to a variety of internal and external groups. Personal and Professional Development: Maintain a personal discipline within the integrity of the post holders own faith or belief tradition (e.g., meditation; daily prayer.) Practice in accordance with the principles of the United Kingdom Board for Healthcare Chaplaincy, the College of Health Care Chaplains and the Network for Pastoral, Spiritual and Religious Care in Health. o Be accountable to you licensing belief, faith, religion, or community authority.
o Take responsibility, with Trust support, for continuing personal and professional development, including appropriate arrangements for pastoral supervision. o Participate in an annual appraisal. Contribute to the effective working of the Trust: Follow Trust policies and procedures. Embody Trust values.
Undertake mandatory training. Participate in relevant Trust-wide activities. Represent Chaplaincy in healthcare teams (e.g., MDTs) in the Trust. Represent Chaplaincy at relevant functions and events.
Create and lead corporate acts which have spiritual significance (e.g., Acts of Remembrance.) FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT RESPONSIBILITIES Responsible for handling and securely storing monetary collections taken at services when leading. Responsible for handling and securely storing donations given during contact with service users. COMMUNICATIONS AND WORKING RELATIONSHIPS Required to work effectively and communicate with colleagues, ward staff, members of other disciplines, and staff within the Trust; relevant professional contacts outside of the Trust; and voluntary, community and faith/belief sector organisations. Within the Trust: Service Users Clinical and patient areas Multi-disciplinary Teams Voluntary organisations Relevant working parties and projects External Organisations: Representatives of local faith/belief communities Healthcare Chaplaincy organisations Voluntary organisations Funeral directors Other Role-Specific Duties Carry out any other reasonable duties commensurate with the role and delegated or requested by the manager or supervisor, as the needs of the service require.
The job description and person specification may be reviewed on an ongoing basis in accordance with the changing needs of the Department and the Organisation

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