Spiritual Care Lead

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Family centred care

Learn, develop, grow

Salary: £38,682 - £46,580 FTE per annum

Location: Across all 3 EACH Hospice Locations - East Anglia

Hours: 37.5 hours per week

This is a Permanent, Full Time vacancy that will close in 15 days at 23:59 BST.

The vacancy

*A Full UK Driving License and access to own vehicle is essential for this role* 

Salary: £38,682 - £46,580 FTE per annum, experience dependent

EACH Care Salary Band: 6  

Working Pattern:

• 37.5 hours per week, working Monday to Friday - with some flexibility to support events & particular family circumstances
• Be present across all three hospice sites each week.

Permanent Contract 

EACH is looking for a dedicated Spiritual Care Lead to join our Wellbeing & Spiritual Care team, working across our three hospices. This is a unique opportunity to help shape and strengthen spiritual care provision within a warm, supportive, multidisciplinary environment.

Are you:

• Passionate about supporting children, young people, and families through some of the most profound moments in life?
• Compassionate, emotionally aware, and inclusive in order to offer spiritual and holistic support to people of all faiths and none?
• Someone who naturally brings warmth, presence, and emotional depth to your relationships with families, children, and staff?
• Comfortable navigating conversations around meaning, identity, grief, and hope- always with sensitivity and respect for all beliefs.

Do you have experience of:

• Providing spiritual, pastoral, counselling, or emotional support in a healthcare, education, community or faith setting.
• Providing spiritual support to those experiencing illness, grief, bereavement and loss; a background in trauma-informed practice.
• Working with babies, children and young people and their families

and

• Knowledge of a range of religions, faiths, beliefs and cultural practices acquired through a relevant degree or equivalent level training and experience.

What You’ll Do:

• Provide compassionate, inclusive spiritual and emotional support to children, young people, and families.
• Support staff wellbeing through reflective spaces, debriefing, and presence.
• Deliver training on spiritual care during education days and staff development sessions.
• Build relationships with local faith and belief communities to enhance understanding of hospice care and widen support options for families.
• Develop and supervise a team of spiritual care and chaplaincy volunteers, increasing diversity across religions and cultures.
• Hold reflective or commemorative spaces.
• Support key hospice events such as Baby Loss Awareness Week and annual Memory Days.
• Represent the hospice at community events, networks, and partnerships relating to spiritual care.

What We Offer:

• A deeply meaningful role where you can truly make a difference
• Supportive, reflective supervision and team culture
• Opportunities for professional development in paediatric spiritual care
• The chance to contribute to a growing spiritual care service

Want to see what it is like to be a part of our Care team at EACH? Please click here.

To take a tour of all three of our hospices please click here.

Closing Date:    12 April 2026

Interview date: 20 April 2026 

Interested in Learning More Before You Apply?

At EACH, we are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is accessible to everyone and actively encourage applicants to ask questions, request reasonable adjustments or have an informal discussion before submitting an application.

If you’d like to find out more or make a request, please contact the Recruitment Team by email hrinbox@each.org.uk or phone 07442 465971.

The Company

The benefits

Free onsite parking

NHS pension - continuation if already contributing

Enhanced holiday plus holiday purchase scheme

Flexible / hybrid working

Role specific training and development opportunities

Employer pension scheme (up to 7% employer contribution) inc. life assurance cover

Enhanced maternity & paternity pay

Employee health cash plan & wellbeing support schemes

The organisation

East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices (EACH) ensures the best possible quality of life and makes every moment count for children and families across Cambridgeshire, Essex, Norfolk and Suffolk. Our family-centred approach includes specialist nursing care, symptom management nursing, short breaks, wellbeing activities, therapies, care at end of life, bereavement support, counselling and volunteer services in the family home; all meeting the individual needs of the child, young person and whole family.

In 2020, all three of our hospices; The Nook (Norfolk), The Treehouse (Ipswich) and Milton (Cambridge) were rated OUTSTANDING by the Care Quality Commission.

Our people are central to our success. We have a talented workforce of staff and volunteers in Care, Fundraising, Retail, Facilities, IT, Finance, Marketing & Communications and Human Resources.

We’re over 440 employees strong, with a team of more than 2,000 volunteers across the organisation including over 50 shops and a Retail Distribution Centre.

Diversity statement

At EACH we believe in fostering a workplace where every individual feels valued and respected. We are committed to building a culture of inclusion where differences are embraced. We are actively seeking talent from all walks of life, recognising that diversity drives innovation, creativity and success.

Join us on a journey to create a more inclusive workplace, where everyone has equal opportunities to grow, contribute and succeed. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds to apply for opportunities at EACH and adjustments will be made to facilitate the application and selection process.

Please note:
EACH reserves the right to close this vacancy early, should we receive a sufficient number of applications.

This post is subject to a Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check prior to appointment.

It is a criminal offence for people who are barred from working in Regulated Activity (under the Safeguarding and Vulnerable Groups Act 2006) to apply for roles that require them to work unsupervised with that particular group.

EACH has a legal responsibility to ensure that its employees have the legal right to live and work in the UK. Therefore, if you are made an offer of employment, this will be subject to verification that you are eligible to work in the UK before you start work.

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