Lead Chaplain

Job summary

Main duties of the job

The Lead Chaplain is responsible for ensuring that the Team delivers excellent direct support to patients, clients, carers and staff across the Trust. The Chaplaincy support offer is the provision of pastoral, spiritual and religious care, will need to flex to meet demand,and best practice must be evidenced through its delivery.

You will work with your line manager to influence and develop the exact shape of your role; keyduties include:

Strategy & Development. Agreeing with Line Manager (Director of Corporate Affairs/Executive Lead for EDI) the strategy and development trajectory for chaplaincy services.

Hands-on, front line service delivery. Essential for your own professional accreditation, this will need to be in cooperation with colleagues, to ensure that the Team's service delivery covers Inpatient Services (Platform 1); Staff (Platform 2); Community Services (Platform 3); and Private Sector (Platform 4).

Chaplaincy Representation. Need to be visible across the Trust. Need to carefully select which groups / meetings / conversations will help to achieve this goal.

Budgeting. Engagement in budget setting to best support overall strategy and service offer development. Analysing variances and making adjustments to spend;

Team Management. e.g. Ensuring Team members are receiving monthly supervision, clinical supervision (as agreed), are up-to-date with mandatory training, and that Annual Leave and TOIL are within acceptable parameters.

Job responsibilities

About Devon Partnership Trust

We provide mental health, learning disability and neurodiversity services, as well as a range of specialist & secure services for the wider south west region & nationally. We are passionate about promoting good mental health & wellbeing. We strive to use the expertise & resources within our organisation, & through our partnerships, to deliver high quality services that are safe & focused on people's recovery.

We are committed to developing a culture of coproduction, involving patients, families & carers in everything we do.

Our values

We not only recruit based on qualifications and experience - we recruit individuals who possess & demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our Trusts core values. These include such attributes as showing a commitment to quality of care, improving lives of others, giving respect, dignity and compassion. We can bring those values to life in our everyday tasks by giving a smile; making time for people; challenging ourselves and others, & being open to new ideas.

We are committed to being an inclusive employer & applications are encouraged & welcomed from all sections of the community, regardless of any protected characteristics as governed by the Equality Act 2010. Part time & flexible working applications will be considered & supported where possible. We particularly encourage applicants with lived experience of mental health conditions, neurodiversity or learning disabilities. We are a Disability Confident Leader.