Chaplain I

Agency

Adult Correction

Division

COO - OPS - Institutions Operations

Job Classification Title

Chaplain I (NS)

Position Number

65015605

Grade

NC10

About Us

The NC Department of Adult Correction is one of the largest state agencies with more than 14,000 employees. It is responsible for safeguarding and preserving lives and property through prevention, protection, and preparation as well as the care, custody, and supervision of all adults sentenced for violating North Carolina laws. This department includes state prisons with custody, healthcare, and facility operations staff as well as probation/parole officers who supervised sentenced people in the community. Other divisions include Administration, Health Services, Rehabilitation & Reentry, Special Operations and the Post-Release Supervision & Parole Commission. We have a mission that matters!

Description of Work

This position is located at Browns Creek Correctional Facility in Polkton, NC

NCDAC is seeking professional clergy from a wide variety of religious traditions to offer spiritual care and religious programming as a Chaplain I. Ordained or endorsed candidates from Muslim, Christian, Jewish, Buddhist, Humanist, American Indian Traditionalist, or other groups are encouraged to apply.

The individual chosen for this opportunity must communicate effectively with interdisciplinary staff, officers, community clergy, mental health services providers, volunteers, offenders, and their families. Chaplains conduct and coordinate religious education, worship, pastoral care, grief support, and other activities for incarcerated participants. The individual in this position must be comfortable supervising offenders and working with a broad diversity of people. Chaplains provide advice and counsel to the facility head and other administrators on religious and theological matters, as well as issues of staff and offender morale when appropriate. The chaplain shall be involved in research and data collection on a wide range of issues: pastoral, programmatic, and interfaith.

The individual must have basic knowledge to apply constitutional principles, the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA), and key court decisions pertaining to religious practices for equal treatment on an interfaith basis. The selected candidate must be able to comprehend and abide by policy, standard operating procedures, memoranda, legal documents, and other directives governing departmental and facility activity.

Key Duties include:

-Work in this position involves planning, conducting, coordinating or facilitating programs for inter-faith religious services in psychiatric hospitals, developmental disabilities centers, or correctional facilities. The programs may include: worship services, faith group studies, bible studies, individual or group pastoral/ spiritual care or counseling. -Employees assess patients/inmates upon admission or transfer to determine if there are pastoral/spiritual care needs. -Employees may supervise religious/spiritual services provided by volunteers and inmate faith helpers as well as recruit and coordinate religious/spiritual volunteers and services on a continual basis. -Employees may visit patients in community hospitals; lead or arrange approved religious rites and sacraments such as blots, communion, equinox, baptism, or holy days. -Chaplains may coordinate pastoral volunteers.

Knowledge Skills and Abilities/Management Preferences

Salary Range $43,267.00 - $75,718.00

Salary Grade 10

This position is full-time, 40 hours a week, which includes one late night shift and monthly weekend duty.

Candidates now meet the minimum qualifications of a position if they meet the minimum education and experience listed on the vacancy announcement. The Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSAs)/ Management Preferences are not required. Applicants who possess the following skills are preferred:

• Demonstrated knowledge of the principles of clinical pastoral/spiritual care and the role of the chaplain in a correctional/ institutional setting.
• Proven ability to plan, organize, and develop a comprehensive pastoral/spiritual care program.
• Proven experience establishing rapport with patients/residents/offenders/congregants and their families.