Healthcare Chaplain | Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust

Role Summary

Support chaplaincy volunteers. This is an exciting part‑time opportunity to join an established multi‑faith team working in The Royal Oldham Hospital. You will respond to the diverse spiritual, religious, cultural, and pastoral needs of patients, visitors and staff. You will be highly motivated, knowledgeable, compassionate, diplomatic and creative; an excellent listener and communicator, with a non‑judgmental calm and confident approach. We are looking for an ordained or accredited minister, endorsed by the Churches Together in England, with pastoral experience. Previous experience of healthcare chaplaincy and the NHS is desirable but not essential and the post is an ideal training opportunity in which to develop experience of working as a Chaplain in the NHS as an entry into professional chaplaincy. The successful applicant will benefit from training and supervision. Engaged in self‑reflection and developing your spiritual care skills, you will be eligible to work towards UKBHC registration.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide pastoral, emotional, spiritual, and religious care for patients, visitors and staff;
• Identify spiritual, cultural, and religious needs and provide/facilitate appropriate care;
• Visit wards and units, and have a designated focus within the hospital;
• Provide insights and spiritual/religious care to all, specialising in caring for those from an Anglican or Free Church tradition;
• Lead and facilitate worship and prayer;
• Share in staffing the on‑call rota (out of hours). You must be able to travel to the hospital sites (Royal Oldham, Fairfield General (Bury) or Rochdale Infirmary) within an hour of being paged.

Qualifications & Experience

• You must be committed to delivering compassionate and person‑focused care.
• You must be non‑judgmental, flexible, calm, and confident in approach.
• You must be knowledgeable about religious and belief‑based care within and beyond your own tradition.
• You must be committed to the Trust values.
• You must be motivated to deliver the highest standard of spiritual care at all times.
• You must be disability confident.

About the Northern Care Alliance (NCA)

The Northern Care Alliance (NCA) is one of the largest NHS organisations in the country. Launched in April 2017, the NCA serves over one million people across Greater Manchester and employs over 23,000 healthcare professionals across Bury, Rochdale, Salford and Oldham. At the NCA, we can offer group‑wide, flexible multi‑site opportunities, as part of our connected, integrated and engaged team. We believe in saving and improving lives, and are passionate about driving forward significant improvements to the provision of safe, high‑quality integrated health and social care to our local community. If you share our vision, take your place with us.