Job requirements
Essential
18 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Experience
Significant previous experience in providing spiritual and pastoral care in a range of contexts
- Experience
Experience of supporting the dying and bereaved
- Experience
Experience of responding in a pastoral care crisis
- Qualifications
Degree qualification
- Qualifications
Authorised or Licenced and recognised by your faith or belief community as a representative appropriate to operate as a Healthcare Chaplain
- Contractual Requirements
Availability for on call rota working anti-social hours out of hours, weekends and on bank holidays
- Contractual Requirements
Car driver and with a vehicle insured for business use
- Contractual Requirements
Live within an area which allows a 1 hour response time
- Contractual Requirements
Able to work flexibly to support service provision
- Skills and Knowledge Requirements
Theological or equivalent study and training appropriate to your faith or belief community
- Skills and Knowledge Requirements
In depth knowledge of own faith or belief group teaching, tradition and practices, and an ability to apply this knowledge in a health care context – particularly in relation to birth, death and illness
- Skills and Knowledge Requirements
Working knowledge of faith and belief systems other than one’s own, and the ability to apply this knowledge working in a secular multi-cultural, multifaith and belief context
- Skills and Knowledge Requirements
Demonstrable knowledge and a commitment to working in an ecumenical, multi-faith or belief, and multi-cultural way, with an openness to the views and doubts of others
- Skills and Knowledge Requirements
Able to work under pressure and prioritise and adapt to changing circumstances
- Skills and Knowledge Requirements
Able to work as part of a team and autonomously
- Skills and Knowledge Requirements
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, including the ability to listen well
- Skills and Knowledge Requirements
Able to provide or facilitate the provision of sacraments/rites and spiritual needs appropriate to the patient’s own faith/belief
- Skills and Knowledge Requirements
Proficient in the use of IT to enable electronic recording of patient notes and appropriate sharing of information and the production of orders of service
Desirable
13 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Experience
Previous healthcare chaplaincy employment.
- Experience
Previous experience of managing staff. Experience of crisis work e.g. traumatic injury, death or major incident.
- Experience
Able to facilitate services such as memorials or worship services in a wide variety of settings.
- Experience
Understanding of current issues in the NHS
- Experience
Experience of collaborative working in a multi-faith/belief setting.
- Experience
Have proven experience in pastoral, spiritual, religious care in complex, emotional or distressing situations in a healthcare setting.
- Experience
Experience of training and supervising volunteers
- Experience
Demonstrable experience and skills in delivering effective training and education relating to pastoral and spiritual care.
- Qualifications
PG Qualification in Healthcare Chaplaincy
- Qualifications
Membership of the UKBHC as a registered chaplain or able to apply for this
- Further Training
Qualification in an area which requires the practice of significant pastoral care skills. For example, counselling, certificate of ministry, ordination/ministerial, qualification caring for the sick or vulnerable
- Skills and Knowledge Requirements
Administrative Skills
- Skills and Knowledge Requirements
Demonstrable experience and skills in delivering effective training and education relating to pastoral and spiritual care
Job overview
Are you passionate about providing compassionate, inclusive care to patients, families, and staff? Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a dedicated Chaplain to join our Department of Spiritual and Pastoral Care.
As a Chaplain, you will offer pastoral, spiritual and religious support across the Trust, responding to referrals, visiting wards and departments regularly, and participating in a 24/7 on-call rota for urgent and emergency care. You will play a vital role in bereavement care, including delivering the Trust’s contract funeral service for families experiencing pregnancy or baby loss, child bereavement, or for adults without next of kin.
You’ll act as a specialist resource on spiritual, religious, pastoral and ethical matters, working closely with internal colleagues and external faith and belief communities to ensure high-quality, inclusive care.
If you are committed to supporting people through some of life’s most challenging moments and have the experience to offer sensitive, professional guidance, we would love to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
This is a part-time role for 30 hours (4 days) per week plus inclusion on the out of hours on call rota. Days worked to be agreed. The post is based at King's Mill Hospital but covers all 3 hospital sites within the Trust.
Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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This advert is for Chaplain with Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in Sutton-in-Ashfield, England. It is listed as a Band 6 Chaplain role. The advertised salary is £39,959 - £48,117 per annum pro rata. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 22 Oct 2026.
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