Chaplain Managing Chaplain JD424 v11

Ministry of Justice; Maidstone; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A governmental agency in the UK is seeking a Multi-Faith Chaplaincy Manager to lead a dedicated team in providing pastoral care to prisoners and staff. The role requires experience in managing diverse faith communities and ensuring compliance with policies related to faith and belief. Responsibilities include conducting worship services and engaging with community partners. The position involves regular unsocial hours and is based in Maidstone, England.

Benefits

Pension schemes

Flexible working arrangements

Training and development opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience in managing a multi-faith and belief chaplaincy team.
• Skills in leading worship and meditation for varying faiths.
• Ability to handle sensitive issues, like deaths in custody.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage a multi-faith chaplaincy team.
• Provide pastoral care to prisoners and staff.
• Oversee compliance with HMPPS policy and procedures.

Skills

Pastoral Care

Leadership

Crisis Management

Communication

Education

Formal recognized qualification in theology or religious study

Job description

This is a non-operational job with line management responsibilities for leading and managing a multi-faith and belief chaplaincy team. Although a managerial role rather than being faith or belief specific, post holders must be endorsed by the respective HMPPS Faith and Belief Adviser. The job holder will provide for the religious and pastoral care of prisoners and staff in their own faith or belief tradition, and appropriate pastoral care for all irrespective of faith/belief tradition or of none. The job holder will work with colleagues to ensure the delivery of PSI 05/2016 Faith and Pastoral Care for Prisoners or its successor policy framework document and also the broader work of chaplaincy in delivering faith and non-faith based courses. The job holder will contribute to the process by which the Governor and Head of Chaplaincy/Profession at headquarters are assured that these policies are being delivered. Responsible for leading on developing relationships with various support and volunteer groups and, where appropriate, act as Official Prison Visitor Liaison Officer. Takes responsibility for one's own spiritual health and development, allowing time for private prayer/reflection, study and retreat.

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.

Stakeholder Relationships & Management

• Work closely with Safer Custody to ensure issues such as deaths in custody procedures, Assessment Care in Custody Teamwork (ACCT) and Violence Reduction are delivered in-line with HMPPS standards. Ensuring, and contributing to, supporting prisoners in dealing with bereavement by liaising with families/prisoners and other third parties; e.g. hospitals, Coroners' offices.
• Responsible for ensuring the involvement of the Chaplaincy team in resettlement issues as appropriate and engage and build contacts with own faith/belief community towards aiding the resettlement of prisoners and for the contact strategy with outside faith/belief-based agencies to help with the resettlement of prisoners.

Resource & Financial Management

• Contribute to the establishment's overall achievement of standards and be accountable for the performance and delivery of targets relating to the budget and People Plan. Responsible for leading the development of local policy, procedures and practice and the implementation of national policy for chaplaincy services. Ensures that current Chaplaincy practice is in line with policy (both national and local). Contributes to the development and delivery of the medium‑to‑long term strategic and business plan for the establishment, with overall responsibility for implementation within their function.
• Ensure all risk assessments are undertaken and staff are made aware of their personal responsibility towards health and safety compliance.
• Responsible for ensuring relevant actions arising from Standard Audit, Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Prisons (HMIP) Action Plans, Quality, Assurance and Development (QuAD) reports, Managing Quality of Prison Life (MQPL) surveys including local self‑audit action plans and Resettlement strategies are delivered.

Behaviours

• Communicating and Influencing
• Managing a Quality Service
• Making Effective Decisions
• Leadership
• Working Together, Anglican Ordained Bishop, Priest, Deacon, Religious Brother/Sister, Church Army Evangelist, Reader (as set out in Canon E4 of the Canons of the Church of England or direct equivalent in other Anglican provinces)
• Bahai
• Buddhist
• Christian Chaplain - Ordained Priest or Free Church equivalent
• Christian Ordained Deacon Religious Brother Sister Lay Person
• Christian Science
• Church of Jesus Christ of Latter‑Day Saints
• Free Church Non Ordained Deacon or Lay Person
• Free Church Ordained
• Hindu
• Humanist
• Jain
• Jehovah's Witness
• Jewish
• Muslim
• Orthodox
• Pagan
• Quaker
• Rastafari
• Roman Catholic Ordained Priest Deacon Brother Sister Lay Person
• Roman Catholic Ordained Priest
• Sikh
• Spiritualist
• Zoroastrian

Faith Communities Supported

• Anglican
• Bahai
• Buddhist
• Church of England
• Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
• Church of Scotland
• Christian Methodist New Connexion
• Christian Scientist
• Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria
• East London Baptist Church Trinity
• Gospel Trinity Missionary Church
• Grace Baptist Church
• Grace Baptist Church East Molesey
• Hackney Baptist Church
• Hindu
• Islam
• Lutheran
• Moon
• Orthodox
• Quaker
• Russian Orthodox
• Seventh Day Adventist
• Shia Metaway Hood
• Sikh
• Spirit
• Trinity
• United Kingdom

Will have proven experience and skills in pastoral care and pastoral leadership, including crisis events.

Technical Requirements

• Must complete specific training to hold the qualifications required for area of specialism outlined on the relevant job description.
• Must be suitably qualified and have a formal recognised qualification in theology or religious study and be experienced such that the job holder will have received formal endorsements (where relevant) from the faith/belief community to which they belong.

Hours of Work (Unsocial Hours) Allowances

37 hour working week. Required Hours Allowance: this role requires working regular unsocial hours and a payment at the current approved organisation rate will be made in addition to your basic pay to recognise this. Unsocial hours are those hours outside 0700 – 1900hrs Monday to Friday and include working evenings, nights, weekends and Bank/Public holidays.

Working Arrangements & Further Information

The MoJ offers Hybrid Working arrangements where business need allows. This is an informal, non‑contractual form of flexible working that blends working from your base location, different MoJ sites and / or from home (please be aware that this role can only be worked in the UK and not overseas). Some roles will not be suitable for Hybrid Working. Similarly, Hybrid Working will not suit everyone's circumstances. Arrangements will be discussed and agreed with the successful candidate(s) and subject to regular review. For nationally advertised roles, the successful candidate(s) will be appointed to a MoJ office location, which may include their nearest Justice Collaboration Centre or Justice Satellite Office. This will be discussed and agreed on the completion of pre‑employment checks. Some of MoJ's terms and conditions of service are changing as part of Civil Service reform. The changes will apply to staff joining MoJ who are new to the Civil Service. Staff joining MoJ from other civil service employers will transfer onto the new MoJ terms if they are already on 'modernised' terms in their current post or onto 'unmodernised' MoJ terms if they are on 'unmodernised' terms at their current post. Details will be available if an offer is made. Standard full time working hours are 37 hours per week excluding breaks which are unpaid. HMPPS welcomes part‑time, flexible and job‑sharing working patterns, where they meet the demands of the role and business needs. All applications for part‑time, flexible and job‑sharing working patterns will be considered in accordance with the HMPPS' Flexible Working policy. If you are a current NPS employee, this vacancy may be available on a Loan basis for up to 2 years. Applications are invited from suitable qualified staff. The Loan/Secondment is subject to the approval of the selected candidate's Business Unit, which should be obtained before confirmation of appointment.

Level of security checks required DBS Standard.

Leadership and Values

Delivering at Pace, Making Effective Decisions, Communicating and Influencing.

Annual Leave and Holidays

The holiday year runs from 1 March. If you work a non standard work pattern your leave entitlement may be expressed in either hours or days as appropriate. Leave entitlement is calculated on a pro‑rata basis and you will be advised of your actual entitlement on appointment. If you were appointed internally and your leave was previously calculated in days, this will continue to be the case. Bank, Public and Privilege Holidays – You are entitled to 9 days (66 hours 36 minutes) in recognition of bank, public and privilege holidays. These hours are added to your annual leave allowance.

Benefits

Pension – The Civil Service offers a choice of two pension schemes, giving you the flexibility to choose the pension that suits you best. Work Life Balance – HMPPS is keen to encourage alternative working arrangements. Flexible working subject to completion of a satisfactory probationary period and NVQ. Season Ticket Advance – After two months' service, you'll be eligible to apply for a season ticket advance to purchase a quarterly or longer‑term season ticket for travel between home and your place of work. Childcare Vouchers – For any moves across the Civil Service may have implications on your ability to carry on claiming childcare vouchers. Training – HMPPS is committed to staff development and offers a range of training and development opportunities, including areas such as Equality and Diversity, Dealing with Challenging Behaviour, Suicide Prevention and Anti Bullying Programmes.

Recruitment and Equality

Eligibility – All candidates are subject to security and identity checks prior to taking up post. All external candidates are subject to 6 months probation. Internal candidates are subject to probation if they have not already served a probationary period within HMPPS. All staff are required to declare whether they are a member of a group or organisation which the HMPPS considers to be racist. Working for the Civil Service – The Civil Service Code sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants. We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles. If you feel that the recruitment process has breached the recruitment principles you are able to raise a formal complaint following the appropriate steps.

Disability Confident

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Diversity & Inclusion

The Civil Service is committed to attracting, retaining and investing in talent wherever it is found. For more information see the Civil Service People Plan and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy.

Veteran Support

The “Making the Civil Service a Great Place to work for veterans” initiative includes a guaranteed interview scheme for eligible former members of the Armed Forces.

Redeployment Interview Scheme

For nationally advertised roles, staff can explore redeployment opportunities before making an individual redundant. The MoJ is committed to providing opportunities for those at risk of redundancy.

Additional Information

This role requires regularly working unpredictable and unsocial hours and be on call to attend their place of work at any time. A 20% payment will be paid in addition to your basic pay to recognise this. Unsocial hours are those hours outside 0700 – 1900hrs Monday to Friday and include working evenings, nights, weekends and Bank/Public holidays.