Chaplaincy PG Cert and MA

meet the team

Helen Bardy
Revd Dr Sally Nash and Revd Dr Paul Nash

Helen Bardy

Helen is the Programme Lead for the PG Certificate and MA in Chaplaincy, you can contact Helen with any questions you have about studying this course: h.bardy@newman.ac.uk.

Revd Dr Sally Nash and Revd Dr Paul Nash

Paul chaplaincy Revd Dr Paul Nash and Revd Dr Sally Nash lead the PG Cert in Paediatric and Maternity Chaplaincy. They have co-authored books on spiritual care and paediatric chaplaincy as well as worked together on a range of research projects. Paul has recently completed his PhD by publication which offers a model for paediatric chaplaincy. Both Sally and Paul have extensive experience in teaching in Higher Education and supporting students through practice based courses. Sally is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Paul is the Chaplaincy Manager and Spiritual Care Lead at Birmingham Women’s and Children’s Hospital, he has worked in paediatric chaplaincy for 20 years. Sally is the Research and Publications lead for the Centre for Paediatric Spiritual Care (part time).

You can contact Sally with any questions you may have about studying this certificate: sally.nash@newman.ac.uk.

Chaplaincy welcome and timetable

PG Cert Chaplaincy / MA Year 1

Welcome to the Chaplaincy course and we hope you are as excited about starting as we are to have you join us. Here you will find some information that we hope will be useful to you as you start and also importantly your enrolment and induction timetable. Our first weekend will be:

15th – 16th October (Saturday 9am – 6:00pm & Sunday 9:30am – 2pm)

and the dates for the further weekends are:

3rd – 4th December, (Saturday 10am – 6:00pm & Sunday 9:30am – 2pm)
28th – 29th January
18th – 19th March
13th – 14th May

Before we meet at the first weekend, we invite you to attend an Online Welcome session on Wednesday October 5^th at 7pm – 8pm.The session will only be an hour and will give you the opportunity to meet us and those who you will studying alongside. We hope that we will also have some former students who will provide some top tips and be available to answer any questions you may have.

Microsoft Teams Link – (Meeting ID: 399 366 517 701/ Passcode: ueKcXX)

MA Year 2

Our first teaching session will be:

Saturday 1^st October (9am – 6:00pm)

and the dates for the further weekends are:

Saturday 19^th November (10am – 6pm)
Saturday 11^th February
Saturday 6^th May
Saturday 8^th July

There will be a number of online sessions in between the Saturdays and these will be negotiated with the group.

Before we meet at the first weekend, we invite you to attend an Online Welcome session on Wednesday 21st September 7pm – 8pm. The session will only be an hour and will give you the opportunity to meet the team and those who you will studying alongside.

Microsoft Teams Link – (Meeting ID: 362 180 175 984/ Passcode: 8SREEF)

PG Cert Paediatric & Maternity Chaplaincy

Welcome to the Paediatric & Chaplaincy course and we hope you are as excited about starting as we are to have you join us. Here you will find some information that we hope will be useful to you as you start and also importantly your enrolment and induction timetable. Our first teaching session will be:

15th October (Saturday 10am – 4:00pm) @ Newman University campus

and the dates for the further teaching sessions are:

12^th November 10am – 4:00pm @ Birmingham Children’s Hospital
3^rd December 10am – 4:00pm @ Birmingham Children’s Hospital
4^th March 10am – 4:00pm @ Birmingham Children’s Hospital
6^th May 10am – 4:00pm @ Birmingham Children’s Hospital

Before we meet at the first weekend, we invite you to attend an Online Welcome session on Tuesday 11^th October 3pm. The session will only be an hour and will give you the opportunity to meet us and those who you will studying alongside. We hope that we will also have some former students who will provide some top tips and be available to answer any questions you may have.

Virtual Meeting Link – (Meeting ID: 513 691 1077/ Passcode: coffee)

Chaplaincy Practice and Supervision

As you will know from your interview all students will need to be working or volunteering as a Chaplain – or equivalent post, in order to be able to fulfil the course requirements. In offering you a place we are confident that you meet this criteria.

A key driver for the course is the development of your reflective practice. One of the mechanisms, you and all our students, will use to assist you with this is by having regular supervision. You will need, in due course, to have a Supervisor that meets the course requirements. This should be someone that you feel at ease with and is comfortable in listening to you and by asking the ‘right’ questions can support you in deepening and increasing your awareness of how you inhabit your chaplaincy role. For now all we suggest is that you begin to consider who might be a suitable supervisor for you, you do not need to organise this beforehand as we will talk through the process with you in our early sessions. Once we have identified the right supervisor with you we will also arrange to meet with you and them to make sure everything is clear. Further details, course criteria and the role of the Supervisor will be explored with you once you start.

Course Pattern

Before each weekend you will be expected to have engaged in the content and activities on Moodle (Newman’s Virtual Learning Environment), available to you after enrolment. Therefore, you need to make time before each weekend to watch the videos and complete the activities

MA/ PG Cert Year 1

During the weekend we hope that you will be able to attend face-to-face sessions on the Saturday & Sunday at Newman. At the end of the teaching there will be mandatory individual tutorial which you can either chose to have on the Sunday or at some point over the following five days. There will also be optional individual tutorial opportunities with the teaching team in between weekends.

MA/ PG Year 2

There are 5x Saturday on campus sessions over the academic year. You will also be supported with 5x mandatory individual tutorial’s that will take place either at the end of the Saturday teaching session or at some point over the following five days. There will also be optional individual tutorial opportunities with the teaching team in between teaching.

Paediatric & Maternity Chaplaincy

There are 5x Saturday sessions over the academic year and an additional online session you can complete in your time which can be found on Moodle (Newman’s Virtual Learning Environment), available to you after enrolment. Therefore, you need to make time to watch the videos and complete the activities.

You will also be supported with individual tutorials, at least twice per module. These will take place at a time convenient to you and the teaching team.

Preparing for postgraduate study

Being successful on the course will require you to manage your time well. Here we give you some tips on your own time management, as you will already be a busy person! We haven’t met a chaplain that isn’t busy or needs to know when to stop!

During this course we will be asking you to study and make time in between the weekends to complete activities and assignments and also attend additional tutorials. Here are some top tips for managing your time.

Whilst returning to study is exciting it can also be a shock to the system, especially for busy people, like Chaplains. This Postgraduate course has been created to offer support along the way which includes individual tutorial sessions, input and sessions from Library colleagues and also from Learning Development.

The Open University have a free online course entitled ‘Succeeding in postgraduate study’ it begins to help you understand what is required studying at this level and begins to help you consider helpful ways to:

Research and work out what are reliable sources
Develop your critical thinking
Read and Write critically
Reflect

Over the next few weeks, we advise you dip in and out of this course (the full course takes 24 hours and all of it is useful). Access this course.