Correctional Chaplain - Maine Correctional Center

Location: Windham,Maine,United States

Correctional Chaplain

Maine Correctional Center

Code: 5134 

036001635          

Pay Grade: 23 $57,512.00 - $80,246.40 (Includes $0.60/hr Institutional Stipend)

Opening Date: October 23, 2024
Closing Date: November 6, 2024

Maine Department of Corrections (MDOC) is destigmatizing corrections for the betterment of all Maine communities. Through the ‘Maine Model of Corrections’, we promote the safety of our staff, clients and residents while reducing barriers to meaningful rehabilitative opportunities. We facilitate restorative justice practices that equip justice-involved residents and clients with the skills they need to become contributing members of society, including treatment, education, and job training.

Maine Correctional Center is seeking qualified candidates for Correctional Chaplain in WindhamThis is a professional services work involving comprehensive religious and spiritual services for adult male and female residents as well as staff at the Maine Correctional Center in Windham, Maine. The successful candidate will develop and encourage an interfaith and inclusive orientation in all aspects of care, programming and services, supporting a diverse range of traditional and non-traditional religious/spiritual beliefs.  Responsibilities include planning, implementation and oversight of programming and services; close collaboration with and direction of religious volunteers and clerks or interns as apt to facility; effective response to individual and group requests; compassionate care and counsel where called for; and reliable administration of material, data and records.    Work is performed under administrative direction.

We are committed to rebuilding lives and are searching for great team players, with a professional attitude and well-developed integrity and ethics, to join us in this mission.

Representative Tasks

• Plans, provides, oversees, and regularly evaluates meaningful religious/spiritual programs and services that meet interests of all residents and of staff toward fulfillment of personal religious/spiritual needs and wellbeing of the whole community.  Discerns the scope and type of spiritual-emotional needs and interests of current residents and staff through interaction and evaluative processes, making effective changes and additions as appropriate.
• Provides individual or group spiritual-emotional or religious counsel as requested to support daily life and respond to special situations.
• Develops and maintains professional interface with other roles/ disciplines to support integrated and coordinated care of the whole person (or resident and staff member).
• Develops and maintains an active Interfaith Council for both men and women that fosters sharing between, understanding of, and appreciation for various faith traditions and works on projects and initiatives to support resident religious practice and spiritual exploration under direction of the chaplain.
• Provides spiritual assessment of all in-coming residents and other residents or staff who request individual religious counsel, making referrals to resources or other staff as appropriate.
• Establishes, maintains and directs a cadre of volunteers educated and trained to meet religious needs and interests of active religions.  Collaborates closely with facility Volunteer Coordinator regarding training and honoring events.  Oversees and regularly evaluates all religious volunteer activities to ensure they align with desired goals and ensure consistent application of correctional policies, procedures and standards.
• Professionally builds and sustains positive, collaborative and professional interpersonal relations with volunteers, staff, residents, community representatives and others in interaction and communication to effectively and respectfully serve all in the exchange of information, coordination of events, meeting requests/needs, working through roadblocks/issues.
• Effectively manages data of all program and event attendance and other information to maintain accurate and complete record keeping of religious/spiritual counsel, programming, volunteer work and services. 
• Proactively and in a timely manner, administers (addresses, meets or resolves) resident requests (to include but not limited to property, purchases of items, special needs, special concerns or changes in religious preference), actively accessing resources or providing service and follow up with all parties to mutual satisfaction, maintaining forms and records regarding each inquiry.
• Parti