Anglican Chaplain

The Chaplaincy service at King's College Hospital provides support for matters relating to spiritual, religious and emotional care to patients, their families, visitors, and staff of all faiths and none.

The post holder will participate fully in the provision of spiritual, emotional, and religious care to our stakeholders ensuring that the service meets professional standards and best current practice. They will be a point of reference for the religious and spiritual issues associated with death and bereavement and ethical matters in the Trust, providing specialist knowledge and advice on request. The post holder is also required to participate in the out-of-hours on-call rota.

Main duties of the job:

• Provide pastoral, spiritual and emotional care to patients, their families, visitors, and staff of all faiths and none
• Make assessment of the emotional and spiritual needs of patients, their families, visitors and staff and arrange the appropriate response with available resources; providing on-going support while a patient is receiving treatment at the Trust
• Provide spiritual and pastoral care that is sensitive to multi-cultural and multi-faith/belief realities for the diversity of patients, their carers, staff and students
• Facilitate rituals and interventions connected with crisis, according to the needs of users, and consistent with the permissions and practice of the relevant faith community
• Give advice to the Trust, as requested, and provide spiritual care to staff and students individually
• Plan and conduct religious services in designated prayer spaces in the Trust or on the wards as required, according to the rites of the post holders own faith as required, publicising and arranging times of worship in consultation with the Head of Chaplaincy
• Provide for the spiritual and religious needs of patients, their families and carers who are unable to be in contact with their regular faith community.

The Trust provides a full range of local and specialist services across its five sites. In June 2026, we launched our new strategy for 2026-31. Our vision is to transform healthcare, and we have agreed six strategic ambitions to help us improve care for patients, and the working lives of our staff.

Benefits:

• Competitive salary: £47,951 to £56,863 a year
• Agenda for Change pay scheme
• Band 6 position
• Permanent contract
• Full-time, part-time, and job share opportunities