Managing Chaplain Grendon and Spring Hill

Overview

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

This is a non operational job with line management responsibilities for leading and managing a multi faith and belief chaplaincy team. Although a managerial role rather than being faith or belief specific, post holders must be endorsed by the respective HMPPS Faith and Belief Adviser.

The job holder will provide for the religious and pastoral care of prisoners and staff in their own faith or belief tradition, and appropriate pastoral care for all irrespective of faith/belief tradition or of none.

The job holder will work with colleagues to ensure the delivery of PSI 05/2016 Faith and Pastoral Care for Prisoners or its successor policy framework document, and also the broader work of chaplaincy in delivering faith and non faith based courses. The job holder will contribute to the process by which the Governor and Head of Chaplaincy/Profession at headquarters are assured that these policies are being delivered.

Responsible for leading on developing relationships with various support and volunteer groups and, where appropriate, act as Official Prison Visitor Liaison Officer.

Takes responsibility for one's own spiritual health and development, allowing time for private prayer/reflection, study and retreat.

Team and Personal Management

• Responsible for leading and managing a multi faith and belief chaplaincy team, ensuring chaplains are available and accessible to prisoners, the effective administration of chaplaincy, including prisoner lists for events and records, and promoting HMPPS policy in all activities and behaviours; e.g. diversity, decency, safety and reducing re offending agendas.
• Responsible for ensuring prisoners' complaints (including litigation claims) relevant to the Chaplaincy team are dealt with in accordance with policy. Carries out investigations and administration in relation to incidents of potential discrimination and reports on findings.
• Ensure chaplains and volunteers receive necessary training, development opportunities, mentoring and personal support, including after incidents, and nurture their contribution.
• Accountable for the performance of the Chaplaincy team and the staff within it. Manages achievement of qualitative and quantitative standards, verifies and signs off documentation, analyses and acts upon data, attends relevant boards/meetings, contributes as chair or member, produces reports and ensures all correspondence is replied to within agreed timescales.

Pastoral Care & Worship/Meditation

• Provide pastoral care and seek to ensure spiritual welfare of prisoners and all staff, including acquiring and distributing appropriate faith/belief literature, supplies and materials; and arrange and lead worship/meditation for own faith/belief community, plan, organize hospital visits, weddings, funerals, memorial services where appropriate; assist offenders on release into the community or serving community sentences or other HMPPS funded community initiatives by agreement.
• Provide expert faith/belief advice within the establishment and support faith/belief groups in observing their religious holy days and festivals; plan and lead workshops and prayer/faith specific meetings.
• Responsible for ensuring and delivering awareness programmes for prisoners, including bereavement programmes and life long programmes, as applicable, and local faith/belief awareness training for staff.

Stakeholder Relationships & Management

• 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; support prisoners in dealing with bereavement by liaising with families/prisoners and other third parties, e.g. hospitals, coroners' offices.
• Ensure the involvement of the Chaplaincy team in resettlement issues, engage and build contacts with own faith/belief community towards aiding the resettlement of prisoners, and develop contact strategy with outside faith/belief based agencies to help with resettlement.
• Contribute to the establishment's overall achievement of standards and be accountable for performance and delivery of targets relating to the budget and People Plan. Lead development of local policy, procedures and practice and implementation of national policy for chaplaincy services; ensure current practice aligns with policy (both national and local); contribute to the development and delivery of the medium to long term strategic and business plan for the establishment, with overall responsibility for implementation within the function; ensure all risk assessments are undertaken and staff are made aware of their personal responsibility towards health and safety compliance.
• Ensure relevant actions arising from Standard Audit, Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Prisons (HMIP) Action Plans, Quality, Assurance and Development (QuAD) reports, Managing Quality of Prison Life (MQPL) surveys including local self audit action plans and Resettlement strategies are delivered.

Behaviours

• Communicating and Influencing
• Managing a Quality Service
• Working Together

Faith / Belief Eligibility Requirements (January 2022)

• Anglican Ordained Bishop, Priest, Deacon, Religious Brother/Sister, Church Army Evangelist, Reader (as set out in Canon E4 of the Canons of the Church of England or direct equivalent in other Anglican provinces)
• Christian Chaplain - Ordained Priest or Free Church equivalent
• Christian Ordained Deacon, Religious Brother, Sister, Lay Person
• Christian Science
• Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
• Free Church Non Ordained Deacon or Lay Person
• Free Church Ordained
• Roman Catholic Ordained Priest, Deacon, Brother, Sister, Lay Person
• Roman Catholic Ordained Priest

Will have proven experience and skills in pastoral care and pastoral leadership, including crisis events.

Technical Requirements

• Must complete specific training to hold the qualifications required for the area of specialism outlined on the relevant job description.
• Must be suitably qualified and have a formal recognised qualification in theology or religious study and be experienced such that the job holder will have received formal endorsements (where relevant) from the faith/belief community to which they belong.

Hours of Work (Unsocial Hours) Allowances

Required Hours Allowance: this role requires working regular unsocial hours and a payment at the current approved organisation rate will be made in addition to your basic pay to recognise this. Unsocial hours are those hours outside 0700 - 1900hrs Monday to Friday and include working evenings, nights, weekends and Bank / Public holidays.

Working Arrangements & Further Information

• The MoJ offers Hybrid Working arrangements where business need allows. This is an informal, non contractual form of flexible working that blends working from your base location, different MoJ sites and/or from home (you can only work in the UK, not overseas). Some roles will not be suitable for Hybrid Working. Hybrid Working will not suit everyone's circumstances. Arrangements will be discussed and agreed with the successful candidate(s) and will be subject to regular review.
• For nationally advertised roles, the successful candidate(s) will be appointed to a MoJ office location, which may include their nearest Justice Collaboration Centre or Justice Satellite Office. This will be discussed and agreed on the completion of pre employment checks.
• Standard full time working hours are 37 hours per week excluding unpaid breaks. HMPPS welcomes part time, flexible and job sharing working patterns where they meet the demands of the role and business needs. All applications for part time, flexible and job sharing working patterns will be considered in accordance with the HMPPS Flexible Working policy.
• If you are a current NPS employee, this vacancy may be available on a Loan basis for up to 2 years. Applications are invited from suitable qualified staff.
• If you were appointed internally and your leave was previously calculated in days, this will continue to be the case.

Eligibility: Nationalities

• UK nationals
• Nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• Nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• Nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• Nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre settled status under the EUSS
• Individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

A reserve list may be held for up to 12 months from which further appointments may be made for the same or similar roles.

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