Trust Chaplain | East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

We are looking for an experienced, enthusiastic and engaging chaplain to join our ESNEFT chaplaincy team which provides high quality pastoral, spiritual and religious care for people of all faiths and beliefs in our hospitals across East Suffolk and North Essex. This is an exciting opportunity based at Colchester Hospital, from where the chaplains also care for patients, visitors, staff and volunteers at our community hospitals in Clacton and Harwich. You will be eager to work in a multi-faith and belief context with a genuine passion for offering person-centred non-judgemental care to patients, visitors, staff and volunteers. This opportunity is for a chaplain who can work well as part of a team, and who is also able to operate as an autonomous, qualified practitioner seeking out and responding to the pastoral, spiritual and religious needs of patients, visitors, staff and volunteers.

• The provision of pastoral, spiritual, and religious care for patients, visitors, staff, and volunteers of all faiths and beliefs
• Regular pastoral visiting within wards and departments and providing specific support to the seriously ill and those requiring end of life pastoral, spiritual and religious care
• Working as part of the multi-disciplinary healthcare team
• Providing training and advice to healthcare staff in the pastoral, spiritual and religious care of patients and their visitors
• The provision of support for staff as required
• Assisting and advising local faith and belief leaders in the pastoral, spiritual and religious care of their people while in hospital, being mindful of the rules of confidentiality by which every NHS employee is bound
  
  We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients' own homes.
We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff. We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options. Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services. Our philosophy is thatTime Mattersto everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients. We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what's widely regarded as the world's best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients. If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you. Find out about living and working here -www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkPu7HphU8A