Head of Spiritual Care

We are keen to welcome a leader with a proven track record accompanied with experience in a senior chaplaincy leadership role, providing support and leadership, along with experience of department administration and budgetary responsibility. Wed like you to bring high level credibility in spiritual care practice and leadership alongside excellent inter-personal skills, the ability to think strategically and analytically, good influencing and negation skills and the ability to deliver change in a multiagency environment.

Key to your success will be your ability to develop and maintain constructive relationships with a wide range of stakeholders, internal and external to NHS Tayside, including working with NHS Education Scotland, HEIs, belief groups and third sector agencies.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an individual to lead our Tayside Spiritual Care Service.

The Spiritual Care service in Tayside embraces a broad understanding of spiritual and religious care for patients, visitors, staff and volunteers, regardless of belief or life stance. It forms an integral part of the delivery of safe, effective and person-centred care, supporting those that work within and those who access our services and their families. Services in Tayside include healthcare chaplaincy services, staff wellbeing support services, community listening services and the team are engaged in a number of innovative development and research projects.

Tayside services align with the Scottish Government national framework (2023), Discovering meaning, purpose and hope through person-centred wellbeing and spiritual care. You will be responsible for leading and managing the ongoing development of our Spiritual Care services in line with the deliverables in this document and the Tayside Spiritual Care Strategic Framework., Some of our vacancies are for internal candidates only. If you are a member of staff, please ensure you update your Jobtrain profile to reflect that you are employed by NHS Tayside