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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


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Chaplaincy and Spiritual Care

Leadership and improvement capability Update for the Trust Board meeting: 26th September 2019 The Revd Stanley Njoka Head of Chaplaincy and Spiritual Care

An Associated University Hospital of Brighton and Sussex Medical School

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What chaplains do?

  • We provide spiritual,

religious and pastoral care for patients, families, friends and staff with faith

  • r none
  • We are available 24 hours

a day

  • On call 24/7 365 days
  • We are available to people
  • f any belief, faith, or world

view

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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

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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
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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

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Memorial Services

  • 2 Adults memorial Service

May and November

  • Babies Memorial service –

First Saturday in July

  • Staff memorial services
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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
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Collaborative working

  • Training – internal external
  • Time to remember

ceremonies

  • Psycho-social mtgs
  • Bereavement services
  • Religious leaders on

placement

  • BAME Network
  • Staff memorials
  • Hospital funerals
  • Organ donation committee
  • Palliative Care
  • End of Life Care
  • Patient Experience

committee

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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
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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
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The Challenges

  • Staffing - Currently 2.5wte National exp 8.6wte
  • Getting other faith/ belief representatives
  • Office / Support room/ Safe space - Temporary
  • Muslim ablution area
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Thank You For Listening