Job overview

We are looking for chaplains to join our multi faith and belief team to be part of offering excellent spiritual, pastoral and religious care across Sheffield Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust.

You will join a well-established team providing chaplaincy care across our hospitals, assessing the pastoral, spiritual and religious needs of patients and those important to them, and assuring those needs are met appropriately and sensitively whatever their background or tradition.

Working in an inclusive and person-centred way you will collaborate with chaplaincy and other clinical colleagues across the Trust to offer the best possible care, always mindful of what matters to the patient and to the staff across the Trust whom you will support.

You will be a reflective practitioner, keen to develop your own chaplaincy skills and always ready to learn, whatever stage you are at in your career

Candidates will be appointed at either Band 5 or Band 6 according to experience. If you are appointed at Band 5 there is the possibility of progression to Band 6.

You will be part of an out of hours on call rota and must be able to attend a call on one of our hospital sites within 60 minutes.

Main duties of the job

Provide pastoral, spiritual and religious care for patients and those important to them, assessing needs and formulating care plans. This will include providing religious or other rituals according to your scope of practice, or facilitating the provision of such rituals by others.

Provide pastoral, spiritual and religious care for staff, individually or to support groups of staff.

At all times practice in a manner that respects diversity and difference, and maintains the physical, emotional, cultural and spiritual boundaries of others.

Contribute to the work of the chaplaincy team across the Trust, and to the development of the Chaplaincy service.

Develop your own chaplaincy knowledge and skills, including awareness of research, according to the needs of the Chaplaincy Service.

Develop as a reflective practitioner and undertake regular supervision with a recognised supervisor.

Practice in accordance with the standards of the UKBHC (renamed the CPCPC from April 2026) Code of Conduct for Healthcare Chaplains and all other relevant protocols, policies and guidelines issued by the Trust and the NHS. 

Participate in the daytime duty rota, and the city-wide out of hours rota, responding to urgent calls within 60 minutes.

Additionally at Band 6:

Contribute to training and education around pastoral, spiritual and religious care within the Trust.

Have involvement in more complex cases and care needs, including advising other clinical staff.

Take a lead in areas of chaplaincy work.

Working for our organisation

Please also note this vacancy is banded dependent upon applicants experience relevant to this post. The banding of the successful applicant/s will start at Band 5 unless applicants meet the necessary threshold of skills and experience required to start on Band 6.

You will be working for an organisation which values and respects all of its staff and the community it serves. The Trust is a leader in the NHS and research sectors and provides excellent benefits for its employees. This includes commitments to professional development but also many policies to support employees in balancing their personal and professional lives.

Chaplains are clinical staff, and the chaplaincy team sits within the Directorate of Therapeutics and Palliative Care.  

In Sheffield we are proactive in supporting the development of chaplaincy as a profession. We seek to nurture new talent and develop those chaplains who already have experience. We are exploring training opportunities for chaplains, including pioneering Clinical Pastoral Education units in England.