Chaplain II

State of Oklahoma • Vinita, OK

1d • Onsite

About The Position

Basic Purpose: Positions in this job family are involved in providing religious services, counseling and guidance to patients, inmates, residents, students, family members or coworkers in a state hospital, institution or facility. This includes performing religious ceremonies, holding services, providing religious education and planning special programs and activities. Typical Functions: · Arranges for and oversees formal and informal religious services, religious education, ceremonies, and rights provided by volunteers or inmate facilitators. · Manages all volunteers serving at the institution or facility and coordinates the services, programs, and activities they provide. · Provides pastoral care to inmates. This includes but is not limited to death notifications, family emergencies and other crisis situations. May assist with pastoral needs of facility co-workers on a limited, and as needed basis. · Coordinates special religious activities and volunteer led special events. · Works with facility staff to ensure inmate religious and spiritual needs are met in accordance with policy and federal statutes, this includes religious dietary needs, religious property, and access to religious services. · Conducts new inmate facility orientations regarding religious services and volunteer programs. · Ensures that inmates assigned to specialized housing units receive ministerial visits and their religious/spiritual needs are met in accordance with policy. · Oversees the inmate marriage process at the institution or facility. · Serves as a liaison between the institution and community or faith-based organizations. Level Descriptor: At this level employees are assigned responsibility for directing and participating in religious programs at a state facility, including supervision of other religious activities staff. This includes visiting residents on a regular or special basis, performing or arranging for appropriate religious professionals to perform baptisms, marriages, last rites or funerals, providing professional religious counseling and guidance, and participating in special programs to facilitate readjustment to the community. In this role, employees will provide religious assessment reports, participate in treatment planning, and consult with staff in carrying out an overall therapy program. Positions are assigned supervision of staff, including assigning and reviewing work, providing training, evaluating performance, and performing other administrative duties.

Requirements

• Knowledge of various faiths, religious doctrines, principles and practices of the faith practiced
• Knowledge of religious counseling, theory and practice.
• Ability to conduct religious services and rites
• Ability to develop the moral and spiritual life of patients, inmates, students, and residents
• Ability to provide religious guidance and counseling
• Ability to devise and instruct religious education programs
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with others
• Ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing
• Ability to organize a program of religious service and education
• Ability to organize the work of others
• master’s degree in divinity, theology or religious education and three years of professional level experience in the clergy and an endorsement from the individual’s respective faith
• bachelor’s degree religion, theology, or religious education from accredited institution of higher learning and four years of professional level experience in the clergy and an endorsement from the individual’s respective faith
• eight years of professional level experience in the clergy with endorsement from the individual’s faith community includes ordination, ecclesiastical endorsement, ministerial license, or other formal recognition from a local faith community or larger religious organization.
• NOTE: No substitution will be allowed for the endorsement from the faith.

Responsibilities

• Arranges for and oversees formal and informal religious services, religious education, ceremonies, and rights provided by volunteers or inmate facilitators.
• Manages all volunteers serving at the institution or facility and coordinates the services, programs, and activities they provide.
• Provides pastoral care to inmates. This includes but is not limited to death notifications, family emergencies and other crisis situations. May assist with pastoral needs of facility co-workers on a limited, and as needed basis.
• Coordinates special religious activities and volunteer led special events.
• Works with facility staff to ensure inmate religious and spiritual needs are met in accordance with policy and federal statutes, this includes religious dietary needs, religious property, and access to religious services.
• Conducts new inmate facility orientations regarding religious services and volunteer programs.
• Ensures that inmates assigned to specialized housing units receive ministerial visits and their religious/spiritual needs are met in accordance with policy.
• Oversees the inmate marriage process at the institution or facility.
• Serves as a liaison between the institution and community or faith-based organizations.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level