Our Chaplaincy Service seeks to serve and support patients, relatives, volunteers, and our staff.
It starts from the basic assumption that humanity’s makeup is body, mind, and spirit, and therefore, all of us have a spiritual side that needs to be acknowledged, especially when we are feeling vulnerable, traumatised, or under any kind of pressure
The team seeks to offer friendship, a listening ear, and opportunities for prayer and spiritual guidance, as and when required. Chaplaincy can also be used as an ethical resource particularly concerning beginning and end of life issues. There is always a chaplain on call.
The focal point for the Chaplaincy Service is the hospital chapel. There is a service on the first and last Thursday of each month at 11am as well as on other special days such as Christmas Day and Good Friday, and everybody is welcome.
As well as being the place where worship is offered week by week, the chapel is a place of stillness, a place where the sense of the divine can be rediscovered, a place of reconciliation with God, and with one another. Chaplaincy staff seek to extend this stillness as they travel around the hospital and beyond, far more interested in who a person is, and whether or not they are hurting, than what they do.
Our chaplains
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Reverend Dozie Moneme, Lead Chaplain
- Father Nishan Mohanraj, Roman Catholic
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Reverend Phillip Dixon, Free Church
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Reverend Ivan Page, Free Church
Assisting the chaplains are volunteers, who visit patients on the wards, and take them to the chapel services.
Our Chaplaincy Service operates throughout the trust, on day units, wards, ED, Sevenacres, in the community, and the ambulance service. Much of its work occurs on the St. Mary's Hospital site where it aims to visit ‘every patient, every week.’ as part of its commitment to deliver quality holistic care for everyone.
The chaplaincy office and the chapel is located on the ground floor of St Mary's Hospital, adjacent to the lifts.
Despite each chaplain on the team being rooted in the Christian faith, they have a good interfaith network with other faith communities on the Island and are therefore able to respond to the religious and spiritual needs of those who follow other faiths, and those who follow none. Through these interfaith networks the service provides information, literature, and holy books of all major faiths in the Multi-faith centre adjacent to the chaplains office.
