Chaplaincy and Spiritual Care Leadership and improvement capability Update for the Trust Board meeting: 26 th September 2019 The Revd Stanley Njoka Head of Chaplaincy and Spiritual Care An Associated University Hospital of Brighton and Sussex Medical School
What chaplains do? • We provide spiritual, religious and pastoral care for patients, families, friends and staff with faith or none • We are available 24 hours a day • On call 24/7 365 days • We are available to people of any belief, faith, or world view
Call outs and Referrals • August 2019 – 18 out of hours call outs We delivered 415 episodes of • care. This included referrals from the nurses, relatives or requests by patients
Cont/d… • Listening • End of Life Care • Bed-side Communion • Still birth Baby Blessings • Emergency Baptism • Prayers before operation • Rites of passage • Anger / Distress • Facilitator
Funerals In 2018 we conducted 158 “contract funerals” for babies who died in the Trust and for 12 adults who had no one to arrange their funeral. So far in 2019 we have conducted the following funerals 8 Adults 47 babies We have facilitated 5 staff bereavement support events since April 2019
Memorial Services 2 Adults memorial Service • May and November Babies Memorial service – • First Saturday in July Staff memorial services •
Contributing to the Trust • Palliative Care MDT • Peer to Peer Stress Management • Springboard – Resilience and Support • End of life care • Equality and Diversity • Corporate ritual and regular services, quiet and prayer • Occupation Health – Staff Bereavement support
Collaborative working Training – internal external Staff memorials • • Time to remember • Hospital funerals • ceremonies Organ donation committee • Psycho-social mtgs • Palliative Care • Bereavement services • End of Life Care Religious leaders on • • placement Patient Experience • BAME Network • committee
Recent activities… • Staff support after a death of colleague • Adult memorial service about 60+ attended • Baby memorial service • First ever dementia friendly Service • Staff support at Capel after many deaths • Staff support – Stress related issues • Staff Memorial Service • Emergency wedding • Mirroring Funeral
The Future Strengthening our patient lead • service, including introduction of “link” chaplains Review of patient literature • End of Life Care • Strengthening links with faith and • belief organisations around our hospitals Strengthening our staff support • Carol Services •
The Challenges • Staffing - Currently 2.5wte National exp 8.6wte • Getting other faith/ belief representatives • Office / Support room/ Safe space - Temporary • Muslim ablution area
Thank You For Listening
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