Overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a suitably qualified, experienced, visionary and talented healthcare chaplain to join East Suffolk & North Essex NHS Foundation Trust as Head of Chaplaincy. The Head of Chaplaincy provides strategic leadership to the Trust, leading on pastoral, spiritual and religious care within the organisation, and leading and managing the chaplaincy team. The role offers the opportunity to lead a large chaplaincy team across multiple sites in a busy and culturally diverse organisation, and to further develop a multi-faith and belief approach to chaplaincy provision.
The Head of Chaplaincy takes responsibility for the role across the whole Trust while maintaining operational chaplaincy commitments through face-to-face pastoral, spiritual and religious care to patients, relatives or staff of any religion or belief, and by participating in the 24/7 on-call service and weekend working.
Responsibilities
* Develop, implement, monitor and review the strategy of the chaplaincy service in line with current NHS England chaplaincy guidance and guidance from professional and regulatory bodies (e.g. UKBHC chaplaincy Code of Conduct) and the Trust’s corporate agenda, in consultation with the Deputy Director of Nursing Quality.
* Manage the chaplaincy budget and charitable funds within Trust procedures; contribute to the drawing up of department/service budgets or financial initiatives; act as an authorised signatory for small cash/financial payments (e.g. overtime, travel, ordering stock).
* Contribute to the strategic and operational workings of the chaplaincy service through collaboration with wider patient services meetings, away-days and relevant committees and project work; contribute to policy implementation, provide advice on best practice and participate in decision making as part of patient services.
* Advance the development of the chaplaincy service and pastoral, spiritual and religious care by linking the Trust’s corporate agenda with the spiritual, religious and pastoral needs of staff and patients and the resources of chaplaincy care.
* Produce reports, business plans and business cases as required.
* Identify financial resources to develop the human resources side of the department to meet national guidelines within a multi-faith and belief framework.
Qualifications and Requirements
The successful candidate will be educated to Master’s Degree level or equivalent in an appropriate subject such as chaplaincy studies or pastoral theology and will have substantial healthcare chaplaincy and management experience within the NHS, in line with current UK Board of Healthcare Chaplaincy guidance. They will need to be able to use their own personal transport for chaplaincy duties, with appropriate travel expenses offered in return.
About ESNEFT
We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients’ own homes. We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff. We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options. Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offers a variety of services. Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone, and we focus on improving processes to reduce delays for staff and patients. We are investing in time matters with a partnership with Epic, a leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier, to bring what’s widely regarded as the world’s best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.
How to apply and contact
If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, we want to hear from you.
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For further details or informal visits contact:
Name: Linda Peall
Job title: Head of Chaplaincy
Email: linda.peall@esneft.nhs.uk
Telephone: 07923 241334
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