The Lead Practitioner will work alongside the Head of Pastoral Care to shape the strategic direction of the department and ensure delivery of a high-quality pastoral, spiritual, religious, and cultural care service. The post holder will act as both a senior practitioner and deputy manager, supporting people who use our services, their carers, and Trust staff across a diverse mental health and learning disability setting.
Main Duties
Provide specialist pastoral, spiritual, and religious care across mental health wards, community mental health teams, and learning disability services.
Respond to urgent and routine referrals across the Trust.
Work autonomously and collaboratively within a multi‑disciplinary, multi‑faith team.
Contribute to service development, quality improvement, and strategic planning.
Support, supervise, and develop volunteers and junior staff.
Deliver training and education on pastoral and spiritual care.
Ensure the service is accessible, safe, culturally competent, and responsive to the needs of people with mental health conditions and learning disabilities.
Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is the leading provider of mental health, learning disability, neurodevelopmental and drug and alcohol services in Surrey and North East Hampshire. We support people of all ages and are passionate about providing high quality care that is delivered at the right time as close to home as possible to help people recover and stay well.
We are one of the top 10 mental Health, Learning Disability and Community Trust to work for nationwide. Our Trust is an inclusive and supportive employer that offers a wide range of staff networks, flexible working, excellent health and wellbeing support. We also provide a wide range of opportunities to help staff develop and progress.
Surrey is a beautiful county lying just 30 minutes away from Central London and from the South Coast.
Regrettably, due to UK Home Office requirements we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process.
Applicants must have the right to work in the UK for the duration of the role.
Please note that we reserve the right to close posts as soon as sufficient applications are received.
We look forward to receiving your application!
Please check the job description & person specification document for more information on the requirements for this job
