Part-time Sikh Chaplain - London, United Kingdom - Ministry of Justice

Ministry of Justice

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London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Part time

Description

Part-Time Sikh Chaplain - HMP Wandsworth

£35,055 - £36,738

London:

Overview:

Job holders within this Group Profile will provide religious and pastoral care of prisoners and staff in their own faith tradition and have an understanding/ knowledge of other differing faiths.

Characteristics:

Typical tasks associated with this Group Profile include:

Act as faith advisor in the establishment providing advice, pastoral care and spiritual welfare to prisoners, staff and their families as requested
Facilitate and deliver opportunities for worship study and religious programmes
Contribute towards the development of local policy, procedures and practice
Provide mentoring and personal support for other chaplains and volunteers including following incidents
Be part of the provision of available and accessible chaplaincy care at all times
Plan and lead worship and prayer / faith specific meetings
Provide pastoral care to prisoners and help to provide support and bring resolution to crisis situations where required
Nurture Chaplaincy volunteers in their contribution
Work collaboratively with other Chaplains and Managing Chaplain on the maintenance and provision of facilities for worship and prayer
Ensure your prison community is aware of relevant religious events and coordinate establishment support for these
Be proactive in forging links with their local faith communities and other agencies, as relevant and consider ways in which these communities/agencies may become involved in mentoring prisoners on release
Participate in developing ways for improving and achieving targets As required, undertake and ensure that all relevant administration, data collection and analysis including relevant targets are collated
Be part of the organisation and delivery of Faith Awareness Training for staff
Undertake Diocesan Ministerial Reviews, where appropriate
Provide appropriate support to the establishment in the absence of the Managing Chaplain
Actively support the Assessment, Care in Custody and Teamwork (ACCT) process

Job Descriptions relating to this Group Profile:

Essential Experience:

Must complete specific training to hold the qualifications required for area of specialism outlined on the relevant Job Description.

Faith Eligibility Requirements (January 2020):

Buddhist:

Be a committed Buddhist living by a moral standard of at least that of the Five

Precepts and meditate regularly.- Display a competent understanding of Buddhist teaching and practice.

Have demonstrable knowledge of Buddhist schools other than the one to which you belong and be willing to help and encourage interest in, and practice of those schools, when required.
Have endorsement by the Prison Service Buddhist Faith Adviser* (Evidence required before appointment).

Anglican:

Ordained Bishop, Priest or Deacon

Be an ordained member of the Anglican Communion (or of churches that are part of the Porvoo Agreement).
Have formal endorsement in the form of the licence of the Diocesan Bishop. Or

Reader, Religious Brother/Sister, Church Army Evangelist

Be a Reader (as set out in Canon E4 of the Canons of the Church of England or direct equivalent in other Anglican provinces).
Have formal endorsement in the form of the licence of the Diocesan Bishop.
All must have:
signed the Church of England documentation on mutual flourishing or Church in Wales equivalent;

- demonstrable knowledge of Anglican theology and religious practice; and
- formal endorsement from the HMPPS Anglican Faith Advisor confirming eligibility and suitability.

Christian Science:

Chaplains should be members of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts.
Chaplains should be class taught students, by an authorised teacher of Christian Science.
Chaplains should be active members of a Christian Science branch church or society.
Chaplains should be endorsed by the Christian Science Prison Chaplains Committee

Free Church:

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All Free Church chaplains are trained faith practitioners in their own communities. They are accountable to, and accredited by an eligible denomination as listed on the Free Churches Group website.

They will either:

Be a minister (lay or ordained) of a Free Church denomination which is a member of the Free Churches Group, or
Be a minister (lay or ordained) of a Free Church denomination which is listed by the Free Churches Faith Advisor as an 'Additional Denomination'.
Denominations listed as an "Additional Denomination" will satisfy all of the following:
have a distinctive Free Church theology;

- be national members of either Churches Together in England or Cytun;
- have formally requested inclusion on the 'Additional

Denomination' list;- have agreed to abide by the "Joint Working Protocol for Prison Chaplains" established between the Free Churches Group, Churches together in England and Cyt