Job overview

The CUH Chaplaincy team is looking for a pastoral practitioner to join our Team, providing pastoral, spiritual and religious care to patients, their carers and staff. Working flexibly as part of the wider Chaplaincy team you will utilise your pastoral experience, to help people respond to the challenges they are experiencing through drawing upon their faith and beliefs.

Successful candidates will bring with them an ability to empathise for others, pastoral skills to safely explore with them their needs and the competency to support them religiously and spirituality. 

You will be working as part of a supportive team, that is dedicated to meeting the needs of those we serve and ensuring the Chaplaincy Service continues to provide the best spiritual care for the Hospital. Therefore, we are looking for someone with strong team working skills, a positive collaborative approach to complex problems, proven pastoral skills and whom operates out of their own depth of practice in their faith/beliefs. 

Our commitment to you is to your ongoing development and a pattern of reflective practice, pastoral supervision and training.

Main duties of the job

• To assess the spiritual and religious needs of patients, visitors and staff and seek to meet those needs or refer on.
• To work within the protocols and practices of the chaplaincy department
• To participate in regular reflective practice.
• Responds to complex spiritual and religious needs in patients visitors and staff associated with their specialist area of expertise.
• Work flexibly within the Chaplaincy team to meet the needs of those we serve
• Participates pro-rata in the on call rota that provides 24/7 service
• Participate in multidisciplinary team working in support of patients, NOK and staff.
• Awareness of research, service evaluation and audit.
• Awareness of service evaluation, audits and research projects
• Participate in the provision of education and training across the hospital and within higher education
• Provides professional support and advocacy across the organisation
• Proactively contributes to multi-disciplinary teams

Working for our organisation

Our Trust

Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH) NHS Foundation Trust comprises Addenbrooke’s Hospital and the Rosie Hospital in Cambridge. With over 13,000 staff and over 1100 beds the priorities of the Trust focus on a quality service which is all about people – patients, staff and partners. Recognised as providing ‘outstanding’ care to our patients and rated ‘Good’ overall by the Care Quality Commissioner, is testament to the skill and dedication of the people who work here. CUH’s values – Together - Safe, Kind, Excellent – are at the heart of patient care, defining the way all staff work and behave. The Trust provides accessible high-quality healthcare for the local people of Cambridge, together with specialist services, dealing with rare or complex conditions for a regional, national and international population.

CUH is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community - a place where we can all be ourselves. We value our differences and fully advocate and support an inclusive working environment where every individual can fulfil their potential. We want to ensure our people are truly representative of all the communities that we serve. We welcome applications for all positions in the organisation irrespective of people’s age, disability, ethnicity, race, nationality, gender identity, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership status, or pregnancy and maternity status or social economic background.