Help Guides: Introduction to Chaplaincy: Healthcare Chaplaincy

Healthcare Chaplaincy

Healthcare chaplains provide spiritual guidance and pastoral care to patients and their families. Within healthcare, a chaplain may work generally in hospitals, or they may specialise in aged care, palliative care, paediatrics, or acute and critical care.

Click here for a personal testimony of working as a hospital chaplain in the UK.

Information on the availability and services of hospital chaplains in Australia is found on individual hospitals' websites.

CatholicCare Chaplaincy Services (Sydney)
Our Chaplains provide pastoral care to patients, their families and employees at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Concord Centre for Mental Health, Macquarie Hospital, Prince of Wales Hospital, and St George Hospital.
HealthCare Chaplaincy Network (USA)
HealthCare Chaplaincy Network is a global health care nonprofit organization that offers spiritual care-related information and resources, and professional chaplaincy services in hospitals, other health care settings, and online. Its mission is to advance the integration of spiritual care in health care through clinical practice, research and education in order to improve patient experience and satisfaction and to help people faced with illness and grief find comfort and meaning – whoever they are, whatever they believe, wherever they are.
Spiritual Health Association (Australia)
Spiritual Health Association is the peak body for spiritual care in the health sector. Our focus is on advocacy for and promotion of compassionate, person-centred spiritual care in health services. We are committed to ensuring patients, carers and staff receive high-quality and safe spiritual care that is responsive to their spiritual needs.