- 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
- Able to work in a flexible and creative way whilst maintaining good planning, organisational and record keeping skills, along with good verbal and written communication skills, a good level of computer literacy, good decision making and problem solving skills, along with the skills to produce monthly and/or annual reports.
- Able to build and maintain effective working relationships with local & faith-based communities and staff at all levels of the business, other Chaplains, and prison visitors and volunteers.
- Able to confidently engage with, target and recruit from various community groups.
- Able to communicate through public speaking and the leading of groups, programmes and corporate acts of worship.