# Chaplaincy & Spiritual Care Manager

**Company**: Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
**Location**: London
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: permanent
**Salary**: £58,133 to £65,261 a year
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are looking for an experienced and compassionate Chaplaincy & Spiritual Care Manager to lead and develop inclusive chaplaincy, spiritual, pastoral and religious care across CNWL.

The role will provide Trust-wide leadership, ensuring accessible and responsive support for patients, carers, families, staff, students and volunteers of all faiths, beliefs and non-religious beliefs.

Working with clinical teams, volunteers, faith and belief communities and external partners, the post holder will develop effective services, policies and governance arrangements that promote dignity, equality and person-centred care.

**Main duties of the job**

- Lead the development and delivery of a Trust-wide, inclusive chaplaincy and spiritual care service.

- Provide professional leadership for high-quality pastoral, spiritual and religious care across Trust services.

- Ensure equitable access to appropriate support for people of all faiths, beliefs and non-religious beliefs.

- Support access to rites, rituals, observances and ceremonies where required.

- Develop and maintain policies, procedures and standards for assessing and responding to spiritual care needs.

- Work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams to support holistic patient care and complex pastoral or spiritual needs.

- Develop effective partnerships with Trust services, community organisations and faith and belief groups.

- Work with Volunteer Services to recruit, train, support and supervise Volunteer Support Chaplains.

- Develop and deliver training, awareness sessions, reflective practice and debriefing for staff, volunteers and students.

- Ensure the service operates in accordance with relevant safeguarding, confidentiality, information governance, infection control and health and safety requirements.

- Monitor service activity, risks and developments, producing quarterly and annual reports.

- Provide professional input into service developments, business cases and funding opportunities.

- Ensure chaplaincy resources and charitable contributions are managed appropriately and in line with Trust policies.

**About you**

- Relevant professional registration or recognised professional standing in chaplaincy, spiritual or pastoral care.

- A relevant degree-level qualification or equivalent experience.

- Experience of supporting people from diverse faiths, beliefs and non-religious beliefs.

- Experience of handling sensitive and complex situations with compassion and professionalism.

- Experience of partnership working, training and service development.

- Knowledge of NHS chaplaincy, safeguarding, confidentiality, information governance, equality, diversity and inclusion.

- Strong communication, leadership, influencing and relationship-building skills.

- The ability to work independently, exercise sound judgement and manage competing priorities.

- A commitment to compassionate, inclusive and person-centred care

## Skills

### Required
- NHS chaplaincy
- safeguarding
- confidentiality
- information governance
- equality, diversity and inclusion
- leadership
- partnership working
- training
- service development

### Nice to have
- postgraduate qualification
- coaching
- mentoring
- supervision
- facilitation
- leadership or management

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