Team

 

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).

Brief Summary

 

Our first teaching session will be

14th October (Saturday 10am – 4:00pm) @Newman University

and the dates for the further teaching sessions are:

4th November 10am – 4:00pm @ Birmingham Children’s Hospital
2nd December 10am – 4:00pm @ Birmingham Children’s Hospital
2nd March 10am – 4:00pm @ Birmingham Children’s Hospital
27th April 10am – 4:00pm @ Birmingham Children’s Hospital

 

Digital Literacy & Study Check:

As part of this course relies on access to resources, teaching content and live sessions over the internet we would like to find out how confident you are about your own digital literacy.

Your answers will help both you and us to navigate your way through the course.

To start the questionnaire, please click here.

Course Pattern

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.

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.

Preparing for Postgraduate Study

Time Management

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.

The video will get you to think about how, when and where you will carve out this time.

 

Succeeding in Postgraduate Study

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). To access the course click here.

Check list

• Completed your online enrolment by the end of September
• Attended the Online session on Tuesday 27th September
• Received your ID card before the first weekend
• Filled in the Digital Literacy questionnaire,
• Considered how you will manage your time,
• If appropriate looked at aspects of the Open University Succeeding in Postgraduate Study course,
• Familiarise yourself with the Chaplaincy Programme Page on the Newman Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) called Moodle.
• Take time to read, watch and reflect on the work we would you like to do on CHM701 Chaplaincy: Principles and Practices Moodle Page. (available after the zoom meeting on 27th September) You will need to have successfully enrolled to access this

 

MA Year 2

Our first teaching session will be

Saturday 30th September (9am – 6:00pm)
and the dates for the further weekends are:

Saturday 18th November (10am – 6pm)
Saturday 10th February
Saturday 11th May
Saturday 22nd June

There will be a number of online sessions in between the Saturdays, our experience is that this are often in the form of tutorials between you and one of the programme tutors.

Course Pattern

There are 5x Saturday on campus sessions over the academic year.
Before each Saturday teaching session 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 to watch the videos and complete the activities. There will also be a number of online sessions at a time and date arranged with the group.

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.

Check list

• Completed your online enrolment by the end of September and information for your id card
• Attended the Online session on 11th October
• Filled in the Digital Literacy questionnaire,
• Considered how you will manage your time,
• If appropriate looked at aspects of the Open University Succeeding in Postgraduate Study course,
• Familiarise yourself with the Chaplaincy Programme Page on the Newman Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) called Moodle.

Pre-Course Reading

 

You may want to explore some of these resources, particularly if you are new to the discipline of paediatric chaplaincy:
Books:

Nash, P, Bartel, M, Nash, S (eds) Paediatric Chaplaincy Principles, Practices and Skills. London: Jessica Kingsley Publishing, 2018.
Nash, P, Darby, K, Nash S. Spiritual Care with Sick Children and their Families. London: Jessica Kingsley Publishing, 2015.

Podcasts:
Introduction to spiritual play https://hospicechaplaincy.com/2021/05/10/second-season-episode-12-paul-nash-on-spiritual-play-as-an-assessment-and-intervention-tool-for-pediatric-chaplaincy/
An introduction to Paul’s approach to multifaith chaplaincy https://hospicechaplaincy.com/2022/02/18/third-season-episode-1-paul-nash-on-the-merits-and-values-of-multifaith-chaplaincy/

Websites:
https://bwc.nhs.uk/centre-for-paediatric-spiritual-care/

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Planned Online Meetings

Welcome Meeting: Log in to meet the course team, fellow participants and find out more about the coming year

Wednesday 4th October 3-4pm

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