Training for Healthcare Chaplains/Spiritual Care Professionals
There is a new approach to newly appointed chaplains/spiritual care professionals which provides for a locally tailored approach for the first months prior to study as detailed below. Details of the early stages of induction are attached here.
Education
Registration: Full registration with the Board requires that applicants have a qualification relevant to their faith community or belief group and either
- a UKBHC accredited post-graduate qualification in Healthcare Chaplaincy, OR
- have completed two units of Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) within the Northern Ireland context alone , OR
- have completed the Portfolio route.
Working as a Chaplain/Spiritual Care Professional: The Board’s UKBHC 2020 Spiritual Care Competences For Healthcare Chaplains outlines the educational requirements for the various Agenda for Change (AfC) Bands in Healthcare Chaplaincy. Alongside post-graduate certificate/diploma/degree courses, the development of CPE, and Portfolio routes to registration set the expectation that the knowledge, skills and behaviours needed to be an autonomous practitioner at AfC Band 6 requires specialist healthcare chaplaincy training. For more information about CPE and/or portfolio routes please contact the academicstandards.lead@ukbhc.org.uk.
Details of UKBHC accredited post-graduate chaplaincy education programs are listed below. (Please note that Birmingham Newman University post-graduate certificate/diploma/degree courses are NOT accredited at the present time and cannot be used to apply for Full Registration or up-grades to Full Registration.)
- Cambridge Theological Federation – validated by Anglia Ruskin University
- PG Certificate / Diploma / MA in Chaplaincy and Pastoral Care
- For further information contact the relevant institution director of studies
- Guy’s and St. Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust – validated by London South Bank University
- PG Certificate / Diploma / MA in Healthcare Chaplaincy and Well-being
- For further information contact the course director Kyei-Baffour@gstt.nhs.uk / PGCertSpCare@gstt.nhs.uk
- Luther King Centre – validated by Durham University
- PG Certificate / Diploma / MA in Chaplaincy Studies
- For further information contact the chaplaincy programmes manager liz.shercliff@lutherking.ac.uk
- New School of Psychotherapy and Counselling – validated by Middlesex University
- PG Certificate / MA in Pastoral Care: Existential and Humanist Practice
- For further information contact the course leader elizabeth.young@nspc.org.uk
- St Padarn’s Institute – validated by Durham University
- PG Certificate / Diploma / MA in Chaplaincy Studies
- For further information contact the postgraduate co-ordinator tina.franklin@stpadarns.ac.uk
- University of Glasgow
- PG Certificate in Healthcare Chaplaincy / MSc in Advanced Practice in Healthcare
- For further information contact the course director mvls-healthcarechaplaincy@glasgow.ac.uk
The current guidance for providers about the requirements for courses seeking accreditation from UKBHC is detailed in the attached Requirements and Pathway to registration documents.