ABSTRACT
There is an important role for the chaplain as 'chaplain to the institution' as a whole, as well as a support for individuals within it. Organisational spirituality can be defined as 'enabling each employee to be able to realise their highest human potential, by embodying spiritual values and attitudes within the workplace, such as meaning, love, compassion, acceptance, forgiveness, value, and integrity. Throughout healthcare there are times of stress and difficulty, either related to major events which affect the institution and the whole team, or as a result of an accumulation of responses to a series of difficult situations, which have to be responded to. Through the development, professionalism, appropriate educational underpinning and recent enhancing of supervisory structures for healthcare chaplaincy, it has been clear that the role of the chaplain as a support person 'for the institution' has continued to be important.
