Managing Chaplain

We are currently recruiting for a Managing Chaplain. You will lead and manage the multi-faith team, provide religious and pastoral care for prisoners and staff in their own faith tradition and appropriate pastoral care for all irrespective of faith tradition.

HMP/YOI Bronzefield is a closed local prison serving courts across the South of England. Our mission is to deliver quality of life services which make a meaningful difference to women in the criminal justice system by supporting them to change their lives for the better. To achieve this we focus on providing needs-based services and programmes to rehabilitate and improve the well-being of our women.

We house up to 572 women (approximately 14.5% of the national female prison population). The women in our custody have a diverse and complex set of needs and range from mothers and babies, young offenders, life and long term sentenced women, short to mid-term sentenced women, foreign nationals and women on remand.

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• Lead and manage the prison Multi Faith Chaplaincy Team ensuring Chaplains are available and accessible to prisoners
• Ensure Chaplains are receiving training and development opportunities as appropriate
• Provide pastoral care and seek to ensure spiritual welfare of prisoners and staff
• Be responsible for arranging and leading worship for own faith community
• Provide expert faith advice within establishment and be responsible for supporting the establishment in ensuring faith groups observe their religious holy days and festivals
• Responsible for leading on developing relationships with various support and volunteer groups
• Responsible for the contact strategy with outside faith based agencies to help with the resettlement of offenders
• Be responsible for planning and leading workshops and prayer/faith specific meetings
• Responsible for ensuring input into and contributing to safeguarding, allocations, referrals, inductions and Diversity Race Equality Action Team (DREAT), as appropriate
• Be responsible for ensuring and delivering awareness programmes for prisoners, including bereavement programmes and lifer programmes as applicable and local Faith awareness training for staff
• Work closely with Safer Custody to ensure issues such as deaths in custody procedures, ACCT and Violence Reduction are delivered in line with NOMS standards
• Be responsible for ensuring and contributing to, supporting prisoners in dealing with bereavement by liaising with families/prisoners and other third parties e.g. hospitals, coroners offices.
• Plan, organise hospital visits, weddings, funerals, memorial services, where appropriate
• Be responsible for ensuring and contributing to the delivery of daily statutory duties which include interviewing all new prisoners, visiting prisoners in healthcare and segregation, responding to prisoner applications and being available prior to discharge.
• Responsible for ensuring and contributing to prisoner reports including Lifer reports and Parole reports as appropriate
• Ensure effective administration of Chaplaincy, including prisoner lists for events, records updated etc.
• Provide mentoring and personal support for the other Chaplains and Volunteers following incidents
• Take responsibility for your own spiritual health and development, allowing time for private prayer, study and retreat
• Undertake a variety of advisory tasks as outlined by NOMS Chaplaincy HQ

• Appropriate experience in the delivery of religious services, ideally in a custodial environment that reflects the necessitation’s of the predominant faiths of the prisoner population
• Outstanding communicator with highly developed influencing skills
• Innovative and forward thinking
• Have a proven high level of professionalism and competence in religious leadership to bring to the role
• Proven experience and skills in pastoral care and pastoral leadership, including crisis events
• Must have working knowledge of other faiths represented within a prison to enable them to work in a multi faith environment.
• Focused and dynamic team player, who can adapt very rapidly to changing priorities and circumstances
• Meet NOMS specified minimum faith eligibility requirements of their faith tradition
• Education to NVQ Level 4 or equivalent

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Salary £37,200 - £42,800 depending on experience

37.5 Hours per week

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Post holders will be subjected to an advanced DBS check, a prison security check (level 2) prior to being employed