Spiritual Care in Practice
Spiritual Care and Wellbeing continues to deliver a high quality of spiritual care service to NHS Golden Jubilee in line with our organisation values:
- Valuing dignity and respect
- A can do attitude
- Leading commitment to quality
- Understanding our responsibilities
- Effectively working together
Patients and Carers
NHS Golden Jubilee believes that people who use its services should expect:
- Holistic assessment and care planning that recognises and responds to their spiritual needs.
- Their spiritual, religious and philosophical beliefs to be respected.
- Access to a faith and belief leader from their own community when requested.
- Access to an environment allowing them to express their spirituality.
- Access to readily available and up-to-date information on Spiritual Care and Chaplaincy services.
Staff and Volunteers
NHS Golden Jubilee expects that staff should:
- Have their spiritual, religious and philosophical beliefs and practices treated with respect.
- Have training to support them in providing assessment and care planning in relation to the spiritual, religious and philosophical beliefs of patients.
- Be encouraged to be involved in the work of Spiritual Care and Wellbeing to provide the highest quality of care and support to patients, carers, colleagues and volunteers.
- Be supported to promote their wellbeing to release their human potential, bringing the ‘whole person’ to work, using their innate strengths of creativity and empathy in providing care and in their working relationships.
Spiritual Care Team
The Spiritual Care team is responsible for:
- Leading, encouraging and promoting a confident approach to spiritual care and facilitation of relevant staff training and developmental needs.
- Providing general spiritual care as requested by patients, carers, staff and volunteers.
- Providing spiritual and religious care to patients, carers, staff and volunteers with sensitivity to their backgrounds and cultures.
- Advising the NHS Golden Jubilee Board in responses in matters of spiritual, pastoral and religious care.
- Helping promote a healthy, strongly motivated and spiritually aware workforce by providing effective support, pastoral supervision, reflective practice to staff and volunteers.
