Spiritual Support Assistant

At Dorothy House, we are here for our community with outstanding, compassionate care for patients and families facing life-limiting illness. Our Family Support Services team provides emotional, spiritual, and practical support to help patients and their loved ones navigate some of life's most difficult moments with dignity and comfort.

We are looking for a compassionate and grounded Spiritual Support Assistant to join our team. You'll work closely with patients, families, staff, and volunteers, offering inclusive spiritual and pastoral care to people of all faiths and none. If you're someone who can bring empathy, openness, and calm presence to those in need, we'd love to hear from you.

SPIRTITUAL SUPPORT ASSISTANT | Band 4 | £13.57 - £14.89 per hour (2025 pay award pending)

The duties and responsibilities will include:

• Coordinate Spiritual Support: Supporting the provision of spiritual care to patients, families, staff, and volunteers within the Dorothy House community.
• Direct Spiritual Support: Offer individual and group spiritual support and be available on call as needed.
• Provide Expert Advice: Advise the Multi-disciplinary Team (MDT) on spiritual matters across various services, including the In-Patient Unit and Day Patient Services.
• Guide Volunteers: Support and guide Spiritual Support Volunteers in the absence of the Spiritual Support Lead.
• Person-Centred Care: Ensure spiritual support is tailored to individuals' personal beliefs, whether faith-based or non-faith-based.
• Manage The Beacon: Oversee the layout and use of The Beacon, a designated space for spiritual support.
• Develop Partnerships: Work with faith-based and secular groups to enhance awareness and training on end-of-life spiritual support.
• Lead Remembrance Events: Organise and lead public remembrance events in collaboration with various Dorothy House teams.
• Cultural and Religious Awareness: Maintain a deep understanding of diverse cultural and religious practices to provide inclusive support.
• Training and Evaluation: Train staff and volunteers on spiritual care, and evaluate spiritual support programs to ensure they meet community needs and best practices.

See our full detailed Job Description for more information.

HOURS OF WORK

This is a part time position working 15 Hours per week over 3 days.
The exact work days will be discussed at interview based on the roles needs and your preferences.

ABOUT YOU

Essential requirements:

• Experience of providing spiritual support and working with significant loss and life change
• Experience of working in a health and/or social care environment
• Experience of devising and delivering services or other formal expressions of spiritual belief
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to build and maintain stakeholder relationships.
• Can demonstrate provision of spiritual care to people from a variety of faiths or no faith.
• Well organised and able to effectively manage own time and workload.
• Willing and able to work flexibly including outside of normal working hours to meet the needs of the service.

Desirable requirements:

• Experience working with volunteers

ABOUT THE BENEFITS

Dorothy House is an incredible place to work, these are just a few of our benefits that we offer to our staff:

• 27 days plus bank holidays, increasing to 29 days and then 33 days with length of service
• Excellent industry leading training with a focus on career development!
• Pension with Life Assurance. 
• Colleague discount across our 29 retail stores.
• 45p per mile for work travel. 
• Mindful Employer Plus Charter - supporting our colleagues with access to impartial, confidential advice when you need it most.

If this sounds like your ideal job, then we'd love to see your application.

Please note that our vacancies can close at any time once sufficient applications have been received. We therefore encourage early submission of your application.

INTERVIEWS

Interviews for this role will be held week commencing the 6th October 2025.