What if your ministry, the outworking of the life of Christ, wasn’t just inside a church building… but in the heart of everyday life?
In workplaces, schools, universities, prisons, hospitals, airports, the armed forces, even alongside civic leaders - chaplains bring hope, faith, and presence where it matters most.
Chaplaincy as a role takes many different forms and is needed in many different places. From football changing rooms, to frontline policing, keeping people safe and supported spiritually can be deeply rewarding.
We celebrate the vital ministry of chaplains who serve faithfully across these spaces within the Diocese of Leicester.
Chaplaincy is journeying alongside people wherever they find themselves. It’s listening and being a confidential presence, offering pastoral, spiritual and religious care to people of all faiths and none, working embedded within the organisations they serve.
Could God Be Calling You to Chaplaincy?
Bishop Saju invites you to explore this notion in his video.
There are often chapliancy roles open across the Diocese of Leicester.
- Right now, the number of chaplains serving stations across the Leicestershire Fire and Rescue Service network is low. If you are interested in exploring this calling, please get in touch with Bishops.Chaplain@LeicesterCofE.org
- There is an Anglican Prison Chaplaincy role currently available at HMP Fosse Way.
You can find details here.
Further afield, the Royal Navy is currently recruiting
Every day of the year, the people of the Royal Navy are deployed at sea defending the nation’s interests, placing pressure on our adversaries, and representing our country abroad. They do this often unseen and unthanked, but always in remarkable ways.
The isolation from home, the pressures of the environment, and the challenges of changed plans, military action and unexpected events can cause disconnection of body, mind and spirit.
Chaplaincy exists to build and strengthen the spirit not only of the individual, but of the whole ship’s company, boat’s crew or troop of Royal Marines.
Royal Naval Chaplaincy serves as ‘a friend and advisor to all on board’, from the recruit on their first day to the oldest and most senior members of the Service, and to their families. Chaplains serve not to pull people out of their battles in whatever form they take, but to strengthen them to fight with purpose and courage, and we do so by being alongside them, equipped with nothing more than ourselves and that which sustains us spiritually. We serve at and under the sea, on land, in training establishments, headquarters, dockyards and hospitals, wherever our people are.
Royal Naval Chaplaincy wants to recruit superb leaders who can underpin, build and sustain the spiritual foundations of our sailors, officers and Royal Marines, for both Regular (full time) and Reserve (part time) Commission.
- If you would like to know more, or discuss the role, please contact the Chaplain Recruiter, The Rev’d Alastair Blaine RN, on NAVYCHAPLAINCY-GROUPMAILBOX@mod.gov.uk or click the links above.