Chaplain | Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust

Join our Chaplaincy Team and contribute to the provision of compassionate spiritual, pastoral, and religious care to patients, families, visitors, and staff across the Trust, regardless of faith, belief or life stance. You will support colleagues, participate in a 24/7 on-call rota, and work collaboratively with clinical teams to ensure holistic care. This role offers the opportunity to make a meaningful impact on wellbeing and the patient experience.

Main Duties

• Provide spiritual, pastoral, and emotional support to patients, families, visitors, and staff, respecting all beliefs, faiths, or none.
• Respond to personal or existential needs and facilitate access to other chaplains or support services when appropriate.
• Participate in a 24/7 on-call rota and support staff wellbeing, especially during times of organisational change or crisis.
• Work collaboratively with clinical teams to ensure holistic care, maintain accurate records, and contribute to service development and reflective practice.
• Engage with local communities to support the Trust’s approach to spiritual and pastoral care.

Key Skills and Attributes

• Excellent interpersonal, communication, and listening skills.
• Ability to provide compassionate support to people of all faiths, beliefs, or none.
• Experience in pastoral, spiritual, or emotional care.
• Flexibility, resilience, and sensitivity in responding to challenging situations.
• Teamwork and collaborative working across clinical and non-clinical staff.
• Commitment to ongoing professional development and reflective practice.

Why colleagues think we are"a great place to work!"

What does Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust offer you?

As part of our BHT family, you’ll benefit from learning and development opportunities to support your career progression.

Alongside NHS benefits of generous annual leave entitlement and pension scheme, you'll have access to NHS discount schemes.

We provide a range of health and wellbeing services to promote a healthy, happy workforce.

What do we stand for?

Our vision is to provide outstanding care, support healthy communities and be a great place to work.

Our mission is to provide personal and compassionate care every time.

We are working hard to increase diversity at all levels within the trust. We believe a diverse workforce can have a positive effect on both staff wellbeing and patient outcomes.

We welcome applications from black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates, LGBTQ+ candidates, candidates with disabilities and care-experienced candidates.

We are proud to achieve the Gold award for the Armed Forces Covenant and support applications from the Armed Forces Community. Please contact Pam.Daley@nhs.net (our Armed Forces Covenant Lead) if you would like guidance or assistance with your application.

We make employment decisions by matching our service needs with the skills and experience of candidates, regardless of age, disability, gender, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, or sexual orientation.

For a comprehensive list of responsibilities and duties, please kindly refer to the Job Description and Person Specification by downloading the JD and PS attachment in the advert.

If you are an internal applicant there is the option for secondment, all applicants must have the endorsement/support of their line manager prior to application.

If you have a disability that makes submitting this online application difficult and would like assistance, please contact us on bht.recruitment@nhs.net quoting the vacancy reference number.

This advert closes on Tuesday 5 May 2026