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Chaplains offer pastoral and spiritual care to all patients and their carers, friends and family as well as NHS staff.
Chaplains have to be accredited as leaders in a recognised faith community. They usually have a degree or a professional qualification and employers expect them to have experience as a leader in their own faith and experience of spiritual and pastoral care. Employers may also ask for some experience in healthcare work. This could be from, for example, hospital visiting while working as a faith leader elsewhere. Chaplains new to the NHS have training which includes an introduction to healthcare chaplaincy, spirituality and chaplaincy in a multi-faith context, working in the NHS, working with people who are mentally ill. Chaplains may be able to study for postgraduate qualifications eg in healthcare chaplaincy or counselling.Chaplains working in the NHS are paid on the Agenda for Change (AfC) pay system. You will typically start on AfC band 5. With further training and experience, you could apply for a chaplain team leader position at band 6. Chaplains in the NHS work standard hours of around 37.5 a week. They are likely to work weekends and evenings. They may be part of an on-call rota. Terms and conditions will usually be different for chaplains working outside of the NHS.As a chaplain in the NHS you'll need to be willing to work with other faiths and people with no faith, able to work with staff, patients and families from all walks of life, flexible, caring and compassionate and able to work as part of a team with healthcare staff. You will also need excellent communication, including listening, skills, be able to see things from another person’s point of view and have good organisational skills.With experience, a chaplain could become a team leader, supervising the work of other chaplains. They could then progress to become a manager, responsible for chaplaincy in a hospital or NHS trust. They may be involved in training other chaplains. -
Doctors in sport and exercise medicine treat people with sport and physical activity-related injuries and work to improve the health of people through increased exercise, while also preventing and managing non-communicable diseases.
Training usually starts with a five year first degree in medicine. You’ll then complete two years of foundation training, two years of core medical training and four years of specialty training (ST3-6). This period of training will include completing your royal college exams. Length of training can vary according to your circumstances.Doctors may work up to 48 hours a week. The working hours may sometimes extend beyond the normal working day to include early mornings, evenings and on call. The basic salary ranges from £29,384 to £34,012. Once you start your specialty training as a doctor in sports and exercise medicine employed by the NHS, you can expect to earn a salary of at least £40,257, which can increase to between £84,559 and £114,003 as a consultant.You'll need excellent communication skills to manage a wide range of relationships with colleagues, and patients and their families. You'll be emotionally resilient, have excellent problem-solving and diagnostic skills and work well in teams and under pressure. You'll also be very organised for the benefit of patients.There are just nine consultants employed by the NHS in sport and exercise medicine. Opportunities also exist to conduct research and teach. In 2020, there were 32 applications for 11 specialty training places. Once in a consultant post, you could take up a managerial position, for example as the lead NHS consultant for a team, department or NHS trust. You will also supervise junior doctors.