Adrian Mark Whelan

• Coordinated volunteers for various chaplaincy activities, ensured smooth operation of pastoral care services.
• Promoted peace through interfaith dialogues amongst staff and patients' families.
• Delivered comforting sermons to uplift spirits of hospital staff members during challenging times.
• Developed pastoral care programmes, improved patient wellbeing.
• Provided spiritual guidance to patients by conducting personal visits and counselling sessions.
• Respected diverse beliefs by providing non-denominational pastoral care when required.
• Liaised with local parishes, strengthened community connections.
• Aided crisis intervention by offering spiritual support to patients and families.
• Comforted distressed family members, alleviated emotional burden during critical situations.
• Collaborated with medical team, enhancing patient treatment plans.
• Assisted in end-of-life planning discussions, encouraged peaceful transitions for terminally ill patients.
• Served as a liaison between patients and their religious communities for enhanced spiritual comfort.
• Offered religious education to hospital staff for improved patient support.
• Conducted prayer services for patient recovery.
• Educated hospital staff on the importance of spirituality in healthcare, increased empathy towards patients' needs.
• Provided spiritual guidance, emotional support and direct care to residents, family members and staff.
• Officiated special services such as funerals and baptisms.

To support the work of the Pastoral, Spiritual and Religious Care Team. An autonomous, qualified practitioner the role is to seek out and respond to the pastoral, spiritual and religious needs of individuals, their carers and staff. In addition, the chaplain will also be expected to contribute to the out-of-hours on call rota including weekend cover. The Pastoral, Spiritual and Religious Care Team, of which the Chaplain will be a member, provides for the spiritual, religious and pastoral needs of patients, staff and visitors within the Trust.

Work alongside chaplaincy team providing spiritual and pastoral care to staff, relatives and patients. Develop skills in these areas.

Role covers being responsible for the constant monitoring of patient admissions, discharges, and the flow of people within the hospital.

First point of contact for outside agencies. Compiling reports for Trust and ICB/NHS England. Line manager for small team staff, which covers managing sickness, annual leave, appraisals. Part of the advanced life support team. Assisting Trust to manage staffing for the hospital. To help manage complaints.

Be the representative for the hospital when patients are sectioned.

Work autonomously assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating own workload as well as within a team. Manage the day-to-day operational issues of bed management, which influence the use of beds within the Hospital.

To deal with very stressful situations on a frequent basis when supply and demand are unable to be met easily. Responding immediately to the unpredictable nature of work- load.

Thinking logically and strategically at all times while under pressure .

Diffusing volatile situations.

Dealing with many different and diverse personalities in a professional calm manner at all times Dealing with aggrieved patients/relatives when planned surgery and or investigations are cancelled due to bed pressures.

To manage the intensive care unit on a day to day basis. Teach students, mentor new staff. Provide mentorship for junior staff and new starters. Provide quality evidenced based nursing care as part of a multi disciplinary team.

Provide Care to patients under supervision of registered practitioners.

Provide quality evidenced based nursing care. Work within a team, communicate within multi disciplinary team and with patients and relatives.

Assist registered practitioners to provide care to patients in various settings, including Gamma Knife, radiotherapy department, operating theatres and wards.