Christian Religious Visitor -Gatwick IRC

Job title: Christian Religious Visitor

Location: Gatwick Immigration Removal Centre

Working Hours / Contract Type Part time, 5 hours per day, 1 day per week covering 2 Sundays per month

Salary: £34,944 pro rata FTE

Here at Serco, we are looking for a Christian Religious Visitor to join our Chaplaincy Team at Gatwick Immigration Removal Centre. This is an exciting opportunity for a Christian Religious Visitor, who has the appropriate experience in the delivery of religious services of Christian faith, ideally in a custodial environment to join our team. You will work across both the Brook House and Tinsley House IRC on a Part time basis. This is essentially a weekend cover role. It is essential that you can work independently and in a team. You must as part of a vibrant Chaplaincy team, contribute, in such a way, as to provide a person-centred care approach, promoting a sense of hope and direction to residents and staff.

Key Accountabilities:

To provide pastoral care and seek to ensure spiritual welfare of residents and staff. To provide faith advice within the establishment and be responsible for supporting the establishment in ensuring faith groups observe their religious holy days and festivals. To acquire and distribute appropriate religious literature, supplies, and materials. To facilitate faith specific services. To attend and provide meaningful input into chaplaincy specific meetings and forums. To work closely with Security and Safer Custody to ensure issues such as Suicide and Self-Harm and Violence Reduction are delivered in line with the DSO’s. To contribute to multi-disciplinary meetings including but not limited to Safer Custody, Security and Wing forum