Chaplain

The New York City Department of Correction (DOC) is an integral part of the Citys evolving criminal justice system participating in reform initiatives and strategies aimed to move the City towards a smaller jail system without compromising public safety. The DOC is responsible for maintaining a safe and secure environment for our employees visitors volunteers and people in our custody. Importantly safe jails enable DOC to provide people in custody with the tools and opportunities they need to successfully reenter their communities. The DOC operates facilities and court commands across the five boroughs with more than 7500 diverse professionals and knowledgeable experts.

DOC seeks to recruit a Chaplain for its Correction Assistance Response for Employees (C.A.R.E.)/Wellness Unit. The selected candidate will provide spiritual care emotional support and counseling services to uniform and nonuniform members of service. The Chaplain will promote the wellbeing of employees by offering compassionate care crisis intervention and guidance during times of personal or professional difficulty. The Chaplain will collaborate with other internal and external wellness professionals to create a supportive environment by which employees can seek assistance in coping with the unique challenges of working in a correctional setting. Key responsibilities include but are not limited to:
Afford spiritual and emotional support by offering confidential services to members
of service regardless of their faith tradition belief system or cultural background.
Provide oneonone and/or group counseling sessions with employees dealing with stress trauma
grief and personal or professional challenges while ensuring timely and routine followups.
Respond to critical incidents (e.g. staff injury traumatic events or death of staff and/or their family
members) to offer immediate emotional and spiritual support to the staff member and when needed
colleagues at their assigned command.
Collaborate with the members from the C.A.R.E./Wellness Unit to develop and implement holistic
wellness programs to promote emotional mental physical and spiritual strength.
Offer prayers prepare and deliver invocations/benedictions during special events or as requested by
staff; lead memorial services or religious observances.
Serve as liaison between staff and external faithbased organizations/communitybased organizations to
ensure additional resources and support services.
Provide interfaith services and/or coordinate with faith leaders to accommodate the diverse spiritual
needs of the correctional staff.
Perform other related work

Qualifications :

Ecclesiastical endorsement by the official endorsing agency of the candidates faith or denomination and by the Committee on Chaplaincies.

Additional Information :

The City of New York is an inclusive equal opportunity employer committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce and providing a work environment that is free from discrimination and harassment based upon any legally protected status or protected characteristic including but not limited to an individuals sex race color ethnicity national origin age religion disability sexual orientation veteran status gender identity or pregnancy.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Fulltime