Sc - Managing Chaplain

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 292290**Salary**:

- £39,674 - £45,625**Job grade**:

- Other- HMPPS Band 7**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Type of role**:

- Other**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 1Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
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Location
- This position is based at HMYOI DEERBOLT - MAIN GATE BARNARD CASTLE, DL12 9BGAbout the job

**Job summary**:

- Please refer to Job Description**Job description**:
**Overview of the job**

This is a management job which provides leadership and facilitates/enables religious and pastoral care to prisoners and staff within an establishment.

**Summary**

The job holder will be responsible for leading and managing the multi faith chaplaincy team.

The job holder will provide for the religious and pastoral care of prisoners and staff in their own faith tradition, and appropriate pastoral care for all irrespective of faith tradition.

The job holder will be responsible for ensuring the delivery of the specification “Faith and Pastoral Care”, the broader work of Chaplaincy in delivering faith and non-faith based courses and ensuring the Governor and Head of Chaplaincy/Profession at Headquarters is provided with assurance that the specification “Faith and Pastoral Care” is being delivered.

This is a non-operational job with line management responsibilities.

**Responsibilities, Activities and Duties**

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

- Responsible for leading and managing the multi faith chaplaincy team ensuring chaplains are available and accessible to prisoners
- Ensure chaplains are receiving training and development opportunities
- Provide pastoral care and seek to ensure spiritual welfare of prisoners and staff
- 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
- Acquire and distribute appropriate religious literature, supplies and materials.
- 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 prisoners
- 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
- 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, Assessment Care in Custody Teamwork (ACCT) and Violence Reduction are delivered in-line with HMPPS standards
- 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
- Responsible for ensuring the involvement of the Chaplaincy team in resettlement issues as appropriate, and engage and build contacts with own faith community towards aiding the resettlement of prisoners
- Responsible for ensuring and contributing to prisoner reports including, Lifer Reports, and Parole Reports as appropriate
- Responsible for the use of the chaplaincy facilities and maintenance of the equipment used
- Ensure appropriate training for chaplaincy volunteers; nurture volunteers in their contribution
- Where appropriate act as Official Prison Visitor Liaison Officer
- Ensure effective administration of chaplaincy, including prisoner lists for events, records updated etc
- Provide mentoring and personal support for other chaplains and volunteers, including following incidents
- Take responsibility for your own spiritual health and development, allowing time for private prayer, study and retreat

Undertake other management tasks including:

- Accountable for the performance of the Chaplaincy team and the staff within it. Manage the achievement of qualitative and quantitative standards including Service Delivery Indicators (SDI’s) within the function, verifying and signing off documentation as appropriate. Analyse and act upon data which is relevant to Chaplaincy
- Ensure that all staff within the Chaplaincy team contribute to providing decent conditions for prisoners and a safe working environment for staff
- Promote prison service policy in all activities and behaviours e.g. promote diversity, decency, safety and reducing re-offending agendas
- Responsible for ensuring prisoner’s complaints (including those i