This role will provide support to the Chaplaincy Team who provide religious and pastoral care of prisoners and staff within HMP Wandsworth. This role is voluntary and unpaid.
- Essential skills: an ability to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence in English.
- Hours of work: anticipated to be one day per week, hours to be agreed as mutually convenient.
- All volunteers are subject to security and identity checks prior to taking up post.
Typical tasks associated with this role include:
- Actively support the Assessment, Care in Custody and Teamwork (ACCT) process (the case management approach used within the prison to support people who are at risk of self-harm or suicide)
- Provide advice, pastoral care and spiritual welfare to prisoners and their families, as requested
- Be part of the support of provision of available and accessible chaplaincy care
- Assist the Chaplains to deliver opportunities for worship, study and religious programmes
- Work collaboratively with other Chaplains on the maintenance and provision of facilities for worship and prayer
- Consider ways in which local faith communities and other agencies may become involved in mentoring prisoners on release
- Provide personal support for other volunteers and chaplains
Desirable behaviours
- Exceptional interpersonal skills, particularly building rapport through conversation, active listening, and communication with a wide range of people
- Ability to be non-judgemental, empathetic and compassionate in dealings with people
- Willingness to work with a diverse range of people
- Understanding and respect for the need for confidentiality in dealings with people
- Understanding of appropriate boundaries and the ability to work within them
- Ability to recognise one’s own limitations and, if necessary, refer to someone more appropriate
- Robustness in unfamiliar environments
If you would consider this role, we would like to invite you for a prison walk-around led by the Managing Chaplain, Ibrahim Lewis. This will provide an opportunity to see the environment and to discuss the role further. Please contact Claire Harding at: [email protected] to arrange a visit or with any questions.
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