Hindu Chaplain - Heathrow Immigration Removal Centre

Mitie; Greater London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading facilities management company is looking for a Hindu Chaplain to provide religious services and pastoral care at Heathrow Immigration Removal Centre. This role requires accreditation within the Hindu community and involves planning worship opportunities and maintaining faith areas. The position offers a part-time contract of 8 or 16 hours per week, along with a variety of employee benefits including flexible lifestyle options and financial wellness assistance.

Benefits

Flexible lifestyle benefits

Cycle-to-work scheme

Enhanced pension contributions

Qualifications

• Experience organizing and leading religious services.
• Evidence of appropriate accreditation within the Hindu community.

Responsibilities

• Assist in delivering worship and teaching for residents.
• Plan and facilitate worship opportunities for Hindu residents.
• Maintain dedicated faith areas and provide pastoral care.

Skills

Religious leadership

Pastoral care

Organizational skills

Education

Accreditation within the Hindu community

Job description

Better places, thriving communities.

Hindu Chaplain - Heathrow Immigration Removal Centre

8 or 16 hours per week contract

Job objectives and responsibilities

• To assist in delivering a comprehensive programme of worship and teaching opportunities for all faiths, with a particular focus on Islam, in line with contractual requirements, company standards and resident needs

Main duties

1. Plan, organise, promote, facilitate and deliver opportunities for worship and study for Hindu residents, including all necessary arrangements or protocols for emergency contact in line with contractual requirements, company standards and resident needs. The needs of potentially vulnerable female residents will be a particular (but not exclusive) focus for this post.
2. Facilitate and deliver services, programmes, activities and visits, liaising with external religious contractors, accredited religious representatives and volunteers, especially within the Hindu community, to meet contractual requirements, company standards and resident needs.
3. Assist in the development of links with outside faith communities, especially within the Hindu community, so the support provided within the Centre is current, in line with best practice and caters for all faiths.
4. Contribute to the maintenance of the dedicated faith areas, especially the Hindu areas, ensuring an appropriate environment is provided.
5. Acquire and distribute, especially among Hindu residents, after appropriate agreement and authorisation from the Manager of Religious Affairs and any other relevant authority, religious literature, supplies and materials allowing residents to fully discharge their commitment to their faith.
6. Advise the Manager of Religious Affairs, religious team and operational management team of relevant religious events, especially within Islam, including festivals, fasts, feasts to ensure that wherever reasonably possible residents can fully observe them.
7. Maintain a stock of appropriate Hindu religious artefacts which will allow residents to fully discharge their commitment to their faith.
8. Provide pastoral care to residents, staff, volunteers and visitors and their families, to assist in their safety, care and well being.
9. Carry out, under the direction of the Manager of Religious Affairs, other reasonable duties and activities that contribute to the furtherance of the goals of the chaplaincy team.

Person Specification

This is a specialist position requiring appropriate qualifications and experience of organising and leading religious services. You must be able to produce evidence of appropriate accreditation within the Hindu community for the provision of religious services or ministry.

YOU MUST BE ELIGIBLE FOR CTC CLEARANCE , YOU MUST HAVE A VALID BRITISH PASSPORT, OR EU PASSPORT WITH SHARE CODE, HAVE LIVED AND WORKED IN THE UK FOR 3 YEARS WITH NO EXTENDED TRIPS OVERSEAS, HAVE NO CRIMINAL CONVICTIONS OR BE PART OF AN ONGOING POLICE INVESTIGATION.

Our market-leading offering provides you with benefits that suit your lifestyle.

We have a virtual GP on hand for you and members of your household. So you can get expert advice by video or phone without having to leave your home. We offer financial wellbeing assistance through our Salary Finance scheme. For example, you could access 50% of your earned pay before payday for a small fee. Salary Finance also offers competitive loans.

When you join us, we’ll give you a link to our flexible lifestyle benefits platform, Choices. You might choose to purchase up to five extra days’ holiday each year. You might buy critical illness insurance, seek dental treatment or buy technology products at an affordable cost. There are many choices!

We give you access to high street discounts from thousands of well-known retailers, gyms and more through our MiDeals platform. And we have a cycle-to-work scheme. Life cover of up to four times your salary is available. We also offer enhanced pension contributions, a save-as-you-earn scheme, and a Mitie Matching Share Plan (you could even be awarded free shares in Mitie).

We award our employees with Mitie Stars as recognition for their hard work. There are cash prizes up for grabs each month and at the end of the year there’s a chance to scoop a top prize of £10,!

Our success is a direct result of the experience and quality of our people. Progressing your career is therefore a top priority for us. We offer a diverse variety of training and development avenues via a wide selection of learning resources to suit you.

We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or long-term condition (for example dyslexia, anxiety, autism, a mobility condition or hearing loss) and need us to make any reasonable adjustments, changes or do anything differently during the recruitment process, please let us know by emailing at .