What is Workplace Chaplaincy
Most businesses recognise people as their most important asset. Good businesses invest significantly in the welfare of their employees, ensuring they are trained, resourced, motivated and managed to do their job. But work is only a part of any individual’s life. Workplace performance will always be influenced by what else is going on in each person’s life. Good managers recognise this.
What do chaplains in the workplace do?
Chaplains visit people in their place of work to offer friendship and to listen. Their support is unconditional, non-judgmental, independent and confidential. The role of the chaplain is complimentary to that of the manager and the personnel / HR department. It is independent of the organisation and orientated by their faith. However good, workplace relations are, there are always things that people don’t wish to share with their colleagues. The chaplain is a trained, trustworthy confidant with the time and willingness to listen.
Why chaplains in the workplace?
Work is a very important part of many peoples' lives. Apart from being a source of income, it is where relationships are formed and reformed, dreams are fulfilled and shattered, peoples' lives are shaped, communities are moulded. Work can be a very positive experience and it can be a source of stress and unhappiness. And people at work are people, with lives full of all the everyday stories of joy and sorrow, hope and despair.
Faith leaders have long been accepted as people who walk with the people of their community, in the ups and downs of their daily lives, offering comfort and hope in times of trouble, encouragement and thanksgiving in times of joy and not a little sprinkling of wisdom in all times.
Who do we currently support?
Chaplains are invited in to BioCity, BHS, Browne Jacobson, Capital One, Freeth Cartwright, Marks & Spencer, The Courts, as well as other smaller businesses. Please call if you would like a conversation to see if we could support your business.
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