Editing Chaplain (section)

===Health care===
Many hospitals, nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and hospices employ chaplains to assist with the spiritual, religious, and emotional needs of patients, families and staff. Chaplains are often employed at residential care facilities for the elderly (RCFE) and skilled nursing facilities (SNF) as well. Chaplains care for people of all faiths and no faith. In mental health work, chaplains are highly skilled,{{how|date=May 2018}} working with other therapists as part of a multi-disciplinary team, especially where the patient's mental health is associated with their religiosity, or where their mental well-being can be aided by spiritual care.

In the [[United States]], health care chaplains who are board-certified have completed a minimum of four units of Clinical Pastoral Education training. Certification typically requires a Masters of Divinity degree (or its equivalent), faith group ordination or commissioning, faith group endorsement, and four units (1600 hours) of Clinical Pastoral Education (the [[Military Chaplains Association|Military Chaplains Association of the United States of America]] does require more, but they are a dod2088 501c-3 military support group founded in 1954 by Military Chaplains).<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://usmca.homestead.com/|title=Website Disabled|website=usmca.homestead.com}}</ref> The [[Chaplain Innovation Lab]], set up in 2008, has responded rapidly and creatively to the unique pastoral demands of the [[COVID-19 pandemic]]; it has 3000 members world-wide.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53284610|title=Coronavirus: The chaplains toiling on the frontlines|work=BBC News|date=July 11, 2020}}</ref>

In Canada, health care chaplains may be certified by the Canadian Association for Spiritual Care.

In the UK, health care chaplains are employed by their local [[NHS Trust]] (Health Boards in Scotland and Wales) or by [[charities]] associated with delivering health care such as a [[hospice]] or private hospital. The NHS in England publishes occasional guidance on chaplaincy practice.<ref>{{Cite web |title=NHS Chaplaincy Guidelines 2023 |url=https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/nhs-chaplaincy-guidelines-for-nhs-managers-on-pastoral-spiritual-and-religious-care/ |website=NHS England|date=August 2, 2023 }}</ref> UK Chaplains are drawn from a range of faith and belief backgrounds, and are not necessarily ordained or a recognised faith leader. In Scotland Healthcare Chaplaincy developed to be 'generic' from 2002 onwards; that is the chaplaincy provides spiritual care to all people and chaplains do not represent a faith or belief group. They may work on a full-time and [[Part-time job|part-time]] basis, and some work unpaid but with formal recognition for a faith or belief group regarding their training and status and may be termed ''honorary'' chaplain. The term ''Voluntary'' Chaplain is frowned on.{{By whom|date=October 2018}} The largest [[professional body]] for the UK is the College of Health Care Chaplains.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.healthcarechaplains.org/|title=Home – College of Health Care Chaplains|website=College of Health Care Chaplains}}</ref> Scotland historically had a distinct professional body, the Scottish Association of Chaplains in Healthcare (SACH) but this has since dissolved. Northern Ireland also has the Healthcare Chaplains Association. Membership of the College of Health Care Chaplains was historically not open to Catholic Priests as it carries with it the membership of the Unite [[Trade Union]], but this changed in April 2018. Chaplains working in a [[palliative care]] setting may also choose to join the Association of Hospice and Palliative Care Chaplains.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ahpcc.org.uk/|title=AHPCC|website=www.ahpcc.org.uk}}</ref> Other less formal networks also exist supporting Chaplaincy in Paediatric settings and GP based Chaplaincy.

Within the UK there is also the UK Board of Healthcare Chaplaincy<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ukbhc.org.uk/|title=Welcome to the website of the UK Board of Healthcare Chaplaincy – UKBHC|website=www.ukbhc.org.uk}}</ref> (UKBHC) which has been set up in order to regulate the ministry and professional practice of health care chaplains. They publish a code of conduct which all registered chaplains are bound to abide by. The UKBHC has successfully applied to the Professional Standards Authority<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.professionalstandards.org.uk/|title=Professional Standards Authority – Home|website=www.professionalstandards.org.uk}}</ref> to be an accredited register of healthcare chaplains demonstrating that it meets the Authority's high standards in areas such as governance and training.

Peer-reviewed journals that publish scholarly articles and research on healthcare chaplaincy include the ''Journal of Health Care Chaplaincy (USA)'',<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/whcc20/current|title=Journal of Health Care Chaplaincy: Vol 23, No 3|newspaper=Taylor & Francis}}</ref> the international journal ''Health and Social Care Chaplaincy'' (UK)<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/journals/hscc-parent/|title=Health and Social Care Chaplaincy -Equinox Publishing|newspaper=Equinox Publishing }}</ref> and the ''Journal of Religion and Health'' (US).<ref>{{Cite journal|title=Journal of Religion and Health (Springer, New York, USA)|url=https://link.springer.com/journal/10943|journal=Journal of Religion and Health|date=2024 }}</ref>