Chaplain: Sponsorship Available

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

As a Band 6 Chaplain, you will be part of the Chaplaincy and Spiritual Care Team, providing compassionate, person-centred spiritual, pastoral, religious, and emotional support to patients, relatives, carers, volunteers, and staff. Working within a multidisciplinary environment, you will contribute to the delivery of holistic care, ensuring that the spiritual and pastoral needs of people from all faiths, beliefs, and none are recognised and supported.You will provide timely chaplaincy support across a range of clinical areas, including acute wards, critical care, emergency departments, end-of-life care settings, and outpatient services. The role involves supporting individuals during times of illness, crisis, loss, bereavement, and major life transitions, while promoting dignity, inclusion, and wellbeing.The post holder will work collaboratively with healthcare professionals, faith community representatives, and external organisations to ensure high-quality spiritual care is delivered in accordance with Trust values and professional chaplaincy standards. You will also contribute to staff wellbeing initiatives, education and training programmes, service development, and quality improvement activities.

Main duties of the job

Provide spiritual, pastoral, and religious care to patients, families, carers, and staff.Support people of all faiths, beliefs, and none in a respectful and inclusive manner.Respond to urgent referrals, including end-of-life situations, critical illness, and bereavement.Facilitate prayer, worship, sacraments, blessings, and religious observances as appropriate.Support families during periods of distress, uncertainty, and grief.Work as an active member of multidisciplinary teams.Provide pastoral support and wellbeing interventions for staff.Contribute to safeguarding, dignity, equality, diversity, and inclusion initiatives.Maintain accurate records and comply with Trust policies and professional guidelines.Participate in the on-call chaplaincy rota where required.Support service development, audits, training, and quality improvement projects.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Bachelor’s Degree or religious equivalent work
  • Ordained Anglican minister in good standing.
  • Comprehensive knowledge of faith & belief systems to work in multi-faith context

Desirable

  • Experience in delivering pastoral, spiritual and religious care in healthcare setting

Other

Essential

  • Experience of supervising volunteers
  • Evidence of ability to manage time prioritising workload

Desirable

  • Demonstrate compassion and empathy
  • Demonstrates flexibility and adaptability in responding to service needs.

Knowlege & Skills

Essential

  • Theological knowledge on ethical issues related to healthcare
  • IT skills

Desirable

  • Demonstrate compassion and empathy

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Closing Date: 16 August 2026

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