Friday 02 May 2025
Internal Reference Number: FOI_8511
Date Request Received: 11/03/2025 00:00:00
Date Request Replied To: 19/03/2025 00:00:00
This response was sent via: By Email
Request Summary: Spiritual, Religious, and / or Chaplaincy Services
Request Category: Private Individuals
| Question Number 1: As part of a piece of work I am undertaking to review the spiritual, religious, and / or chaplaincy services offered by NHS England, I am contacting you to ask for the following information to please be provided. How many whole-time equivalents are employed in the spiritual, religious, and / or chaplaincy service(s) and what are their bandings? Please differentiate between staff on substantive and temporary contracts, as well as staff working in the service on bank or agency contracts. | |
| Answer To Question 1: Total <5 WTE. Made up as follows Band 7 <5 WTE Band 6 < 5 WTE Band 6 Bank <5 WTE | |
| Question Number 2: What are the typical core hours of the spiritual, religious, and / or chaplaincy service(s) on offer? How are these service(s) provided over the week (i.e. weekdays only, seven days a week, etc)? | |
| Answer To Question 2: 7 days a week Chaplaincy working in hospital...24 hour/365 day on call | |
| Question Number 3: What type of support (such as regular activities, events, or gatherings) is offered by the spiritual, religious, and / or chaplaincy service(s)? Please differentiate this between support offered to patients, support offered to family / friends, and support offered to staff members. | |
| Answer To Question 3: Emotional, spiritual and pastoral support to patients, relatives and staff of all faiths and none. Baby funerals and pastoral support. Memorial services for staff members. Weekly communion services in chapel. Prayer and worship space for all faiths. Yearly events...baby memorial services in the community, Trans Remembrance service, Armistice day, All faith festivals. Hospital contract funerals. Emergency weddings. Training for new staff in EOL care. Thought of the Week and recordings on Radio Odstock. Well-being sessions in the Hospice and staff departments. Delerium and Dementia Training. 7 day a week hospital rounds and responding to referrals. 24 hours on call. NICU and midwife bereavement training. Managing chaplaincy volunteers | |
| Question Number 4: What on-call or out-of-hours provisions are made by the spiritual, religious, and / or chaplaincy service(s) at your Trust? Please differentiate between provisions offered by staff members employed by the Trust, and provisions offered by external contractors / arrangements. | |
| Answer To Question 4: On call 24 hours/ 365 days provided by core team | |
| Question Number 5: What support is offered to the spiritual, religious, and / or chaplaincy services(s) by external organisations? For instance, what contracts are held by the Trust for this / these service(s) and who are these contracts with? | |
| Answer To Question 5: Visting Parish clergy. Royal College of Healthcare Chaplains | |
| Question Number 6: On average, how many service users are supported by the spiritual, religious, and / or chaplaincy service(s) in a week? Please take an average of service users supported between January and December 2024. | |
| Answer To Question 6: Approx 530 people are supported by chaplaincy services per week | |
| Question Number 7: What is the overall satisfaction for the spiritual, religious, and / or chaplaincy service(s) offered by your Trust? Please provide the overall satisfaction for the period January 2024 to December 2024. | |
| Answer To Question 7: Data not held | |
| Question Number 8: What supervision, if any, is provided to staff working in the spiritual, religious, and / or chaplaincy service(s)? Please identify whether this is provided by your Trust or by an external provider, and the average annual cost for this provision. | |
| Answer To Question 8: Supervision is provided by Hospital management, Reflective practice, Spiritual Direction, optional clinical psychological support. Training/ reflection days | |
| Question Number 9: Please provide a contact name and contact email address if there should be any additional queries relating to this Freedom of Information request. | |
| Answer To Question 9: Mark Geraghty mark.geraghty1@nhs.net | |
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