Spiritual and Pastoral Care
When facing health difficulties, as with other life experiences, we often question what is happening and its impact on us and those we love.
Our Spiritual and Pastoral Care Team aims to provide spiritual and pastoral care to patients, carers and staff and to meet specific needs relating to faith and belief practice across the trust.
We can support you
Spirituality and religion both recognise that the journey of making sense of our experiences embraces heart, soul and spirit as well as mind and body.
Members of the Spiritual and Pastoral Care Team (also known as Chaplaincy) can accompany you on this journey or simply provide an opportunity to discuss how the experience of illness impacts on your life.
Whatever your beliefs you are welcome to receive support. We can also make provision for particular religious needs to be met and are in contact with local faith groups.
Non-urgent advice: Our chaplains
What we do
We visit our inpatient wards and unit on a regular basis and staff will be happy to put you in touch with us. If you receive care from a community team, please ask your care co-ordinator to do this for you.
Spiritual and pastoral care is also offered in our community hospitals throughout Oxfordshire, where chaplains work alongside local chaplaincy volunteers and other faith representatives to provide you with any support you or your family need.
Contact us
You are more than welcome to contact one of the chaplains directly and they will be happy to offer any support you might need.
- Oxfordshire, Wiltshire, and Bath & North East Somerset – 01865 90 2760
- Buckinghamshire – 01865 90 1723
- Email: spiritual.care@oxfordhealth.nhs.uk
Faith and Spirituality Rooms
Find a place of peace for prayer, meditation or quiet contemplation in our faith and spirituality rooms.
On some sites the room is called the sanctuary.
These spaces provide a place of peace in the midst of the busy daily life of hospital sites.
Weekly services
You are very welcome to join one of our weekly services which are led by some of our Christian chaplains:
- Littlemore Mental Health Centre, Oxford
Tuesdays at 3pm (ask at Trust HQ reception for the chaplain) - Warneford Hospital Old Chapel, Oxford
Tuesdays at 2:15pm - Whiteleaf Sanctuary, Aylesbury
Wednesdays at 3pm
Organised Friday Jummah prayers take place on some sites. Please contact the team for more details about these.
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