23417 - Managing Chaplain Grendon and Spring Hill

Ministry of Justice; Aylesbury; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

The Ministry of Justice seeks a Managing Chaplain for Grendon and Spring Hill to lead a multi-faith chaplaincy team, ensuring chaplains are accessible to prisoners and that policy on diversity, safety and reducing re-offending is implemented.

You will oversee pastoral care, plan worship/meditation, arrange visits and support faith groups while delivering relevant programmes and staff training within the establishment.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage a multi-faith chaplaincy team, ensuring accessibility for prisoners and compliance with HMPPS policy on diversity, safety and reducing re-offending.
• Oversee prisoners' complaints and investigations related to the Chaplaincy team and report findings.
• Ensure training, development and mentoring for chaplains and volunteers, including after incidents and ongoing support.
• Provide pastoral care and plan worship/meditation for faith communities, including hospital visits, weddings and memorial services where appropriate.
• Deliver awareness and faith-related programmes and support staff in observing holy days and festivals.

Job description

23417 - Managing Chaplain Grendon and Spring Hill

The job holder will be required to carry out the following responsibilities, activities and duties:

Team and Personal Management

• Responsible for leading and managing a multi-faith and belief chaplaincy team, ensuring chaplains are available and accessible to prisoners, the effective administration of chaplaincy, including prisoner lists for events, records updated etc and promotes HMPPS policy in all activities and behaviours; e.g. diversity, decency, safety and reducing re-offending agendas.
• Responsible for ensuring prisoners' complaints (including those involving litigation claims) relevant to the Chaplaincy team, have been dealt with in accordance with policy. Carries out investigations and administration in relation to incidents of potential discrimination and reports on findings.
• Ensure chaplains and volunteers are receiving necessary training, development opportunities, mentoring and personal support including after incidents as well as for volunteers and nurturing them in their contribution.
• Accountable for the performance of the Chaplaincy team and the staff within it. Manages the achievement of qualitative and quantitative standards within the function, verifying and signing off documentation as appropriate. Analyse and act upon data relevant to Chaplaincy. Attends relevant boards/meetings and actively contribute either as chair or team member, produces relevant reports as required and ensures all correspondence is replied to within agreed timescales.

Pastoral Care & Worship/Meditation

• Provide pastoral care and seek to ensure spiritual welfare of prisoners and all staff, including acquiring and distributing appropriate faith/belief literature, supplies and materials. With responsibility for arranging and leading worship/meditation for own faith/belief community, plan, organise hospital visits, weddings, funerals, memorial services, where appropriate. Assist with offenders on release into the community, those serving community sentences or other HMPPS funded community initiatives by agreement.
• Provide expert faith/belief advice within establishment and be responsible for supporting it in ensuring faith/belief groups observe their religious holy days and festivals and for planning and leading workshops and prayer/faith specific meetings.
• Responsible for ensuring and delivering awareness programmes for prisoners, including bereavement programmes and lifer programmes, as applicable, and local faith/belief awareness training for staff.