Managing Chaplain

Job Introduction
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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Main Responsibilities
- 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
- 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

About The Company
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