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**Duty Chaplain**:
**Job ID**:

- 240097

**Posting status**:

- Open

**Organization**:

- Ministry of the Solicitor General

**Division**:

- Vanier Centre For Women

**City**:

- Milton

**Position(s) language**:

- English

**Job term**:

- 1 Permanent

**Job code**:

- C50582 - 15 Chaplain (COR)

**Salary**:

- $67,763.00 - $85,323.00 Per year*
*Indicates the salary listed as per the OPSEU Collective Agreement.

**Consider Your Next Career with the Ministry of the Solicitor General, Ontario Public Service**

We are currently seeking a Chaplain to provide spiritual and religious care and support to inmates at the Vanier Centre For Women. This role will involve responsibility for maintaining a comprehensive, multi-faith chaplaincy program for inmates, their families, and staff.**About the job**:

- Provide comprehensive religious services and spiritual care programs to inmates, their families, and staff
- Coordinate and monitor a busy and involved multi-faith program
- Create new programs and coordinate spiritual activities
- Build relationships and partnerships with community groups
- Partner with local faith communities to establish programs to help inmates reintegrate into the community
- Represent chaplaincy on institutional committees
- Collaborate with a multidisciplinary team made up of correctional staff, the healthcare department, and other professional staff
- Other duties as required

**What you bring to the team**:
**Mandatory requirements**:

- You possess endorsement from a recognized Spiritual, Religious, Creed or Faith Group or Organization.

Note: An endorsement may be an ordination or a letter of recommendation from a recognized Spiritual, Religious, Creed or Faith Group or Organization
**Specialized Knowledge and Experience**:

- You have experience providing spiritual care programs and services within an institutional setting (such as health care, military, corrections, education, residential care, etc.)
- You have applied knowledge of various faith groups, multi-denominational groups, as well as religious beliefs and practices, which may be acquired through a combination of university, theological school, certification program, and/or professional experience
- You have experience working collaboratively with various faith groups

**Communication, Interpersonal and Counselling Skills**:

- You can interact effectively with inmates, families, staff, and volunteers
- You have strong counselling skills to assist inmates and their families through issues and crisis

**Organizational and Supervisory Skills**:

- You are able to plan, organize, implement and evaluate spiritual care programs and religious services
- You have supervisory and coordination experience in order provide guidance, orientation, and training to volunteers, students and other spiritual and religious visitors

**Other Skills**:

- You have analytical skills and good judgement to identify and resolve issues
- You are able to work within the legislative framework, balancing confidentiality and the need to maintain the safety and security of staff and inmates
- You have general understanding of the criminal justice system and correctional institutions in order to develop spiritual programming that meet inmate needs**How we support diversity, inclusion and accessibility**: We are building an inclusive workforce that reflects the communities we serve. We encourage everyone interested in working with us to apply, including people with disabilities, Indigenous, Black and racialized individuals, as well as people from all ethnicities, cultures, sexual orientations, gender identities and gender expressions.

Our hiring process is accessible, consistent with Ontario's _Human Rights Code_ and the _Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2005._ We are working to prevent and remove barriers in our hiring processes and can offer accommodation to address specific needs related to Code-protected grounds such as disability, family status and religion. For more information about accommodation during the hiring process please contact us.

Learn more about the work the OPS is doing to create an inclusive, anti-racist, accessible and diverse workplace:

- diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives
- accessibility
- Anti-Racism Policy

**What we offer**: The Ontario Public Service is one of Ontario's largest employers. Employees work for a wide range of ministries, with offices in more than 70 cities across the province. We offer:
a career that can grow across ministries and job functions
flexible learning and developmental opportunities, including education and mentorship programs
many employee networks offering support for and education about underrepresented groups
tailored work arrangements, including opportunities like flex hours, self-funded leave and more
Our comprehensive compensation and benefits package includes:
a defined-benefit lifetime pension plan (guaranteed, ongoing inflation-protect