Chaplain: Sponsorship Available

  • Full Time
  • United Kingdom
  • 41,957 to 50,387 £ / Year

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

We are looking for an experienced, enthusiastic motivated individual. They will have their main base at Frimley Park Hospital and be required to share in 24/7 out of hours emergency provision. 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/inclusive 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.

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.

Main duties of the job

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 out of hours on-call rota every day of the week.
  • You will primarily at Frimley Park Hospital but be expected to work at other sites depending on operational demands.

Person Specification

Skills

Essential

  • Leadership skills
  • Ability to work collaboratively across faith and belief boundaries
  • Working knowledge of faith and belief systems other than one’s own, and the ability to apply this knowledge in a diverse context
  • Skilled at designing, facilitating and leading services of worship in a wide variety of settings
  • Digital and verbal communication skills desirable for effective communication of information within the organisation and with the public

Desirable

  • Pastoral supervision skills
  • Volunteer management skills
  • Counselling skills

Qualifications

Essential

  • Formal Theological Qualification or equivalent to degree level or equivalent.
  • Endorsement for the role by a faith or belief group as defined by the Network for Pastoral, Spiritual and Religious Care in Health.

Desirable

  • Registered as a Board-Certified chaplain with the UK Board for Healthcare Chaplaincy
  • Member of the College of Health Care Chaplains and/or The Association for Hospice & Palliative Care Chaplains
  • Postgraduate Certificate in Healthcare Chaplaincy
  • Qualification in Clinical Pastoral Education

Experience

Essential

  • Substantial, recent pastoral experience in a local faith/belief community setting or equivalent
  • Experience in facilitating rites and meeting spiritual needs according to service user’s own faith/belief group
  • Experience of training, supervising and managing volunteers
  • Experience in the pastoral care of bereaved people
  • Experience in the pastoral care of terminally ill people
  • Experience in crisis work such as pastoral care following traumatic injury, death and major incidents
  • Experience of collaborative working in a diverse multi-faith/belief setting

Desirable

  • Experience of providing teaching on spiritual care to healthcare professionals
  • Experience in Healthcare Chaplaincy
  • Experience of pastoral care of staff under pressure
  • Experience in the pastoral care of people bereaved of children and experience of death through pregnancy loss, still birth, and neonatal death.

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).

Closing Date: 2 September 2026

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