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Chaplaincy, Spiritual, Pastoral care
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Our Chaplaincy team offers help and support to patients, relatives, families, carers, and staff across the Trust. We provide pastoral, spiritual, and religious care in all community hospitals and mental health inpatient units, supporting people of all faiths and beliefs - including those with no religion. We are committed to serving everyone with compassion and respect, upholding the principles of equality, diversity, and inclusion, regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation.
- Service Manager Lead: Reverend Charles Stubbings
- Service Contact: charles.stubbings1@nhs.net
- Address: Head Office, 2 Kings Court Charles Hastings Way, Worcester, WR5 1JR
- Reception phone number: Mobile: 07768 751570
About the service
The Chaplaincy team offers help and support in many different ways wherever and whenever you may need it. The service is inclusive and available to people of all faiths and beliefs, as well as those who do not follow a particular religion or belief system.
You may find it helpful to speak with someone who has time to listen and is experienced in supporting people during challenging times in hospital.
We offer:
- A listening ear
- Confidentiality
- Acceptance
- Emotional and spiritual support
Illness doesn't just affect the body, it can impact every part of life. Spiritual care can help you talk through hopes and fears, sources of meaning and strength and the relationships and concerns that matter the most in your life.
The Chaplaincy team is made up of volunteers led by Reverend Charles Stubbings who is employed on a full time basis by the Trust as Lead Chaplain and is also a locally ordained Baptist Minister. The team includes ordained, licensed and lay ministers as well as non-ministerial providers of pastoral and spiritual support.
Most community hospitals have multi-faith rooms which provide an opportunity for prayer or simply quiet reflection. Multi-faith provision is in place where multi-faith rooms have not yet been provided as well as in our mental health units. Most mainstream faiths are provided for but if you have a faith that is not represented please contact the Lead Chaplain (email: Charles.stubbings1@nhs.net) and he will do his best to support your needs.
We also recognise that whilst staff are dedicated to providing a high standard of healthcare and support to patients they also face personal pressures of their own. Confidential chaplaincy support is offered to all staff and is not restricted to work-related issues.