Anglican Chaplain

Job Introduction

HMP Northumberland are recruiting for an Anglican Chaplain. As Anglican Chaplain, you will provide pastoral needs for prisoners whatever their religion. You'll maintain and develop links with visiting Ministers from other faiths and with faith communities to develop support for reintegration, providing counselling when appropriate for prisoners and staff.

HMP Northumberland offers a variety of initiatives and programmes to help residents engage within the prison’s rehabilitative culture. This includes various educational and vocational qualifications, as well as a variety of opportunities for residents to learn new skills within our workshops and industries departments. We have textile, engineering and electrical workshops and can offer prisoners experience in horticulture, market gardens, cleaning, waste management and laundry services on site.

As a working prison, we work towards the resettlement of residents upon their release into the community and their integration into society through the skills acquired while in our care. We are committed to supporting people to change their lives for the better and lead law-abiding lives.

Being over 4 miles in circumference, the prison is a vast space with exceptionally kept plantation and currently houses over 1300 residents with a range of sentence terms.

For more information on working in Justice within Sodexo please see Careers in Justice

Role Responsibility

• Serve the needs of prisoners and staff by supporting religious faith and practice within the prison and pastoral care for all. 
• Work together to create an ordered and caring community where individuals can discover and practice their religion and develop and strengthen appropriate links with their family and faith communities. 
• Support prisoners of all faiths through facilitating religious prayers and teachings of Faiths representative of the prisoner population. 
• To participate in the Equality and Inclusion Management Team meetings. 
• To take on when necessary and appropriate generic chaplaincy duties including applications, new receptions and discharges, and visiting prisoners in Separation and Care 
• Represent the prison and company to the local community. 

A full list of responsibilities can be found in the attached job description

The Ideal Candidate

Essential 

• Experience of working in a similar role 
• To have the necessary recognition from lead faith authorities. 
• Great ability to work with the people of different ethnicities 
• Ability and wish to work with clergy and volunteers of different faith backgrounds 
• High level of interpersonal skills including assertiveness and self-motivation 
• The ability to challenge inappropriate behaviour 

Desirable 

• Experience of working in a people-facing role or with vulnerable groups 
• Managing conflict 

Package Description

Salary - £27,100 - £29,300

What we offer

• Free parking
• Bupa Healthcare Cash Plan – claim towards costs such as prescriptions, dental and optical treatments for you and your children
• Life assurance
• Free will writing service
• Access to 24 hour GP service for you and your children
• Subsidised gym membership
• Sodexo Discounts site promoting discounted mobile phone tariffs, savings across restaurant chains and days out, where you and your family can save money on everything from your weekly food shop to the latest cinema blockbuster and much more
• Enhanced Pension Scheme
• 28 days holiday (inclusive of bank holidays)

You will be required to work some weekends and evenings

About the Company

In the UK and Ireland, Sodexo employs around 30,000 people, and partners with clients in many sectors across business and industry; schools and universities; sports and leisure; energy and resources; government and agencies; healthcare; justice and defence.

Sodexo’s connected; people-centric approach brings together a diverse range of expertise. The breadth of services it offers ranges from food and hospitality; cleaning; reception; concierge (Circles); security; property management and technical services through to data driven workplace strategy and design (Wx); employee engagement and recognition services (Sodexo Engage) and personal home services through Prestige Nursing + Care and the Good Care Group.

Vital Spaces is Sodexo’s value proposition that puts people at the heart of everything we do, bringing together services and solutions and focusing on the productivity and wellbeing of people wherever they are.

Sodexo is committed to being an inclusive employer; we welcome and encourage applications from people with a diverse variety of experiences, backgrounds and identities.

We’re a Disability Confident Leader employer. We’re committed to changing attitudes towards disability, and making sure disabled people have the chance to fulfil their aspirations.

We are building on our support to the Armed Forces community through the development of specific pathways within our recruitment process to  support ex-forces personnel and reservists, those applying for jobs with us who meet the ideal candidate criteria for the role advertised are guaranteed to progress to the selection process.

Sodexo and our clients are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and adults within a regulated activity. Certain roles will require applicants to undergo screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) and/ or Disclosure Scotland.

Please note all roles within Sodexo Justice are subject to security and recruitment checks which may include a Social Media Check. You will also be asked to provide 5 years’ worth of references and request employment history details from the HMRC.