Woodhouse was
ordained as a
Baptist minister in 1980. He transferred from a short service commission to a regular commission on 8 May 1995. On 8 May 1996, he was promoted to Chaplain to the Forces 3rd Class (equivalent in rank to
major). He was promoted to Chaplain to the Forces 2nd Class (equivalent in rank to
lieutenant colonel) on 30 October 2002. In March 2003, he was posted to Iraq as part of the invasion force at the beginning of the
Iraq War. In July 2005, he was appointed the senior chaplain at the
Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. The United Board is a special grouping of the
Baptist Union of Great Britain, the
United Reformed Church and the
Congregational Federation for the purpose of providing
military chaplains. He was promoted to Chaplain to the Forces 1st Class (equivalent in rank to
colonel) on 2 May 2006. On 2 May 2008 he was appointed Deputy Chaplain General and the granted the rank of
brigadier. On 29 July 2011, he was appointed
Chaplain General to Her Majesty's Land Forces and promoted to the rank of
major general. Woodhouse has seen active service, working on the frontline in
Iraq during the
2003 to 2011 war. Since 2015, he has been a chaplain at
Moorlands College, a
non-denominational evangelical theological college in Hampshire. ==Honours and decorations==