# Chaplain > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/chaplain/a51b6851-b26f-4fc5-982f-65f5df2c14e7 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/chaplain/a51b6851-b26f-4fc5-982f-65f5df2c14e7.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Trust Headquarters, King's Mill Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Chaplain - **Grade:** Band 6 - **Salary:** £39,959 - £48,117 per annum pro rata - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Part time - 30 hours per week (Plus share of on call rota out of hours) - **Closing date:** 2026-10-22T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-10-08T14:14:59.839Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Nottinghamshire/Sutton_Ashfield/Sherwood_Forest_Hospitals_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Spiritual_Pastoral_Care/Spiritual_Pastoral_Care-v8291388 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8291388?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.sfh-tr.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### 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. ## Person Specification ### Experience **Essential** - Significant previous experience in providing spiritual and pastoral care in a range of contexts - Experience of supporting the dying and bereaved - Experience of responding in a pastoral care crisis **Desirable** - Previous healthcare chaplaincy employment. - Previous experience of managing staff. Experience of crisis work e.g. traumatic injury, death or major incident. - Able to facilitate services such as memorials or worship services in a wide variety of settings. - Understanding of current issues in the NHS - Experience of collaborative working in a multi-faith/belief setting. - Have proven experience in pastoral, spiritual, religious care in complex, emotional or distressing situations in a healthcare setting. - Experience of training and supervising volunteers - Demonstrable experience and skills in delivering effective training and education relating to pastoral and spiritual care. ### Qualifications **Essential** - Degree qualification - Authorised or Licenced and recognised by your faith or belief community as a representative appropriate to operate as a Healthcare Chaplain **Desirable** - PG Qualification in Healthcare Chaplaincy - Membership of the UKBHC as a registered chaplain or able to apply for this ### Further Training **Desirable** - 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 ### Contractual Requirements **Essential** - Availability for on call rota working anti-social hours out of hours, weekends and on bank holidays - Car driver and with a vehicle insured for business use - Live within an area which allows a 1 hour response time - Able to work flexibly to support service provision ### Skills and Knowledge Requirements **Essential** - Theological or equivalent study and training appropriate to your faith or belief community - 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 - 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 - 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 - Able to work under pressure and prioritise and adapt to changing circumstances - Able to work as part of a team and autonomously - Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, including the ability to listen well - Able to provide or facilitate the provision of sacraments/rites and spiritual needs appropriate to the patient’s own faith/belief - 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** - Administrative Skills - Demonstrable experience and skills in delivering effective training and education relating to pastoral and spiritual care ## Documents - [benefits leaflet (pdf, 834.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2702) - [application guide (pdf, 584.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2448) - [our staff networks (pdf, 810.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2938) - [nursing, midwifery & ahp strategy 25-28 (pdf, 2.6mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2492) - [band 6 chaplain job description and person specification (pdf, 264.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10609414) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.