Professional Advisors are appointed and trained by the Board to:
- Advise healthcare organisations on appointing healthcare chaplains/spiritual care professionals including the professional content of job descriptions;
- Represent the professional associations at interviews for chaplains’/spiritual care professionals’ posts as impartial external assessors of the professional ability of candidates;
- Ensure that recruitment and selection to chaplains’/spiritual care professionals’ posts are fair, consistent and open and that the best candidate for the post is appointed;
- Monitor the recruitment and selection of chaplains/spiritual care professionals across the UK.
If you would like the support of a Professional Advisor at UKBHC please contact professionaladvisor@ukbhc.org.uk
Current Advisors (July 2024)
- Tony Brookes
- Claire Carson
- Sarah Crane
- Yunus Dudhwala
- Anne Edwards
- Derek Fraser
- Simon Harrison
- Andrew Keith
- Jeremy Law
- Paul Nash
- Mark Newitt
- Robin Pfaff
- Ben Rhodes
- Gareth Rowlands
- Phil Wright
- Allison Dean