Unit C1: Meet personal, religious and worship needs

Ensure appropriate environment and facilities for personal worship

Performance Criteria

• An adequate level of privacy is established in accordance with the individual's wishes and the facilities available
• Individuals are made aware of organisational facilities meeting their religious needs
• Adequate opportunity for the use of facilities is provided
• Meeting of the worship needs of those outside the job-holder's tradition is facilitated at the earliest reasonable time
• A pastoral relationship is established within which worship needs can be expressed
• Equipment and literature appropriate for worship requirements are provided and maintained or renewed
• Opportunities for worship are offered at times and in a manner which takes into account the pastoral needs of the individual as well as traditional religious practice
  

Facilitation of worship needs:
Referral to appropriate person; Provision of resources - materials and space

Individuals:
patients, staff, relatives, carers

Worship equipment and literature:
sacred texts, other literature, sacramental requisites

• Breadth of spiritual expression
• Clinical conditions which may constrain physical activity including worship in individuals
• Communication policy, systems and techniques
• Current affairs (national and local) and their impact locally
• Facilities available for worship
• Financial and resource management processes
• Health and Safety Legislation, policy and procedures
• Local healthcare strategies and plans
• Local organisational routine
• Local organisational structures, routines and networks
• Policy and guidance of relevant Government Department/ Agency
• Policy and guidance of relevant Professional Bodies/ Organisations
• Principles and mechanisms of multi-disciplinary team working
• Principles of pastoral and spiritual care
• Professional and contractual responsibilities & obligations
• Resources of relevant faith communities
• Risk management principles and techniques
• Theological and Philosophical approaches to personal worship
• Worship requirements of major world faiths

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Support the individual in prayer and worship

Performance Criteria:

• Worship and prayer are appropriate to the mental, physical and spiritual condition of the individual
• Appropriate explanation and reassurance about the nature of specific rituals or sacraments is given
• The individual is encouraged and supported in the search for spiritual strength, healing and acceptance
• The individual is assisted where possible to recognise, express and respond to the spiritual reality of her/his life and experience
• Prayer is offered as part of, and in the strength of, the job-holder's own personal spiritual discipline
• The resources of the job-holder's own spirituality and tradition are shared with sensitivity, relevance and appropriateness to the individual's situation
  

Range

Space:
shared, designated; chapel and worship areas, offices, counseling rooms, meeting rooms, mortuary chapel.

Equipment:
audio visual including musical, worship including sacramental, literature, office etc.

Team members:
Officially appointed and authorised chaplains (part-time and full-time, lay and ordained)

Individuals:
patients, staff, relatives, carers

Values, cultures, beliefs:
race, sexual orientation, gender, age, religion, politics, ideology, ethics, intellect.

• Business Planning
• Current affairs (national and local) and their impact locally
• Financial and resource management processes
• Local healthcare strategies and plans
• Local organisational structures, routines and networks
• Local policy and processes for corporate governance
• Material resource requirements of other Faith Groups
• Policy and guidance of relevant Government Department/ Agency
• Policy and guidance of relevant Professional Bodies/ Organisations
• Professional and contractual responsibilities & obligations
• Supplies Administration policy
• Theological and Philosophical approaches to material resources
  
  

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Maintain and develop a personal spiritual discipline appropriate to one's own religious tradition

Performance Criteria:

• Regular time and appropriate space is made available for maintenance and development of time &full-time, lay & personal spiritual discipline
• Other team members are encouraged to respect, and where appropriate invited to share in, time allocated for personal spiritual discipline
• Appropriate resources are made available for the personal use of the job holder, and are regularly reviewed
  
• Appropriate reading of spiritual material and the study of sources of the job holder's faith and tradition are undertaken
• Links are maintained with the on-going life of the job holder's sponsoring body
• Participation in the life of a worshipping community is maintained and developed wherever possible and appropriate
• Adequate support and review networks are identified and utilised, and where applicable cover is provided
  

Range

Resources:
literature, time and space, signs and symbols

Sponsoring body:
Christian Church/ denomination, world faith

Team members:
officially appointed and authorised chaplains (part-time and full-time, lay and ordained)

• Continuing Professional Development (including spiritual resources)
• Current affairs (national and local) and their impact locally
  
• Development within one's own faith community
• Facilities available for worship
• Local healthcare strategies and plans
• Local organisational structures, routines and networks
• Policy and guidance of relevant Government Department/ Agency
• Policy and guidance of relevant Professional Bodies/ Organisations
• Principles and mechanisms of multi-disciplinary team working
• Professional and contractual responsibilities & obligations
• Terms and conditions of employment
• Theological and Philosophical approaches to one's own religious tradition

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