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Hospital and wider healthcare chaplaincy is a vitally important service and as a healthcare chaplain you have been called to a valuable yet challenging vocation - thank you for all that you do!

Someone Cares believes that the local church community has a part to play in supporting your work and can offer support in bringing God’s love to patients, their families and those working in healthcare too.

Someone Cares seeks to create supportive links between the local church community and healthcare chaplaincy. We work in line with the UK Board of Healthcare Chaplaincy frameworks and the NHS Chaplaincy guidelines, adhering to the ethos of healthcare chaplaincy and ensuring that we provide trustworthy and credible support in all that we do.

How could linking with Someone Cares benefit your chaplaincy service?

The heart of Someone Cares is to bring hope into hospitals. We link the local church to hospital and healthcare chaplaincy services to help provide emotional, practical, and spiritual support to patients, their families, and the wider hospital community.

This will look different in every setting, but here are some of the ways that linking with Someone Cares could support you and the chaplaincy services that you offer:

Prayer Support

Everything we do starts with prayer, both locally and nationally.

Trained volunteers

We provide training for new volunteers in line with UKBHC standards

Practical resources

We encourage churches to meet practical needs too

Community links

Link service users into the local church-based community support available

Resource toolbox

Call on the skills of your wider church community to meet specific service needs

Promoting chaplaincy

Linking with churches increases local awareness about chaplaincy care

"The link between Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust and Freedom Church, through Someone Cares, has been an amazing blessing to our patients, families and staff alike. The practical benefits of care packs and children's pyjamas are so much needed and appreciated whilst the spiritual and social benefits of prayer and visits from volunteers have enabled the work of the Spiritual Care team to reach out to service users and staff who might otherwise have slipped 'under our radar'."

Rev David Williams, Spiritual Care Manager, Alder Hey Children’s Hospital

Link with Someone Cares

If you would like to know more about how linking with Someone Cares could support the chaplaincy services that you offer then please book on to our next ‘Explore Someone Cares’ webinar or get in touch for an informal chat. We would love to hear from you!