Healthcare chaplaincy brings compassionate spiritual care to patients, families, and staff in hospitals, hospices, clinics, and community health programmes. At Tenwek Hospital College, healthcare chaplaincy is not an abstract specialty—it is learned in the shadow of active wards, busy outpatient corridors, and the pastoral needs that arise when people face birth, illness, trauma, and death.
What healthcare chaplains do
- Offer crisis presence, prayer, and ritual support respectful of each patient’s beliefs
- Walk with families through diagnosis, treatment decisions, and bereavement
- Partner with doctors, nurses, and social workers on ethics consults and goals-of-care conversations
- Equip volunteers and local church partners to extend compassionate visitation
Formation pathways at Tenwek
Most students enter through the Certificate or Diploma in Chaplaincy, where competencies apply directly to bedside and institutional contexts. Assignments, peer groups, and faculty mentoring emphasise cultural humility, infection-prevention etiquette, and documentation practices that integrate with hospital policy.
Career relevance
Graduates pursue roles as hospital chaplains, hospice spiritual care providers, mission hospital pastoral leaders, and community health chaplains. Employers increasingly expect chaplains who combine theological depth with communication skills suited to fast-moving clinical teams.
Learn more and apply
Explore every specialization on the academic programmes hub, then review admissions requirements, fees, and FAQs. Certificate applicants may register online.