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SACH  Soundings
 No 14: June 2003

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CARING FOR THE SPIRIT:
A strategy for the chaplaincy and spiritual healthcare workforce
 

Tim Battle, the Training and Development Officer for the Hospital Chaplaincy Council of the Church of England has been working with the South Yorkshire Workforce Confederation to produce a national chaplaincy strategy which will map out for the first time how healthcare chaplaincy is organised and delivered in the NHS. A three-tier career structure with basic, consultant and specialist level posts is proposed. Tim says, “There is also a hope that in raising the chaplaincy’s profile, the strategy will make NHS managers and staff more comfortable about the spiritual aspects of healthcare. We believe that patient care should be holistic, and in that sense, spiritual healthcare is not just about what chaplains do, though they tend to be the professional that facilitates it and can directly meet the religious aspects of spirituality for their own tradition.”

Tim Battle is a member of SACH.

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