What are the responsibilities and job description for the Chaplain position at BGC?
- Direct and supervise all aspects of the religious programs.
- Train both lay and clergy volunteers from faiths represented in the population.
- Provides spiritual guidance and clinical pastoral education regarding personal, family and spiritual problems.
- Hold religious services and prayers, sacramental observations and religious educational programs for inmates/detainees/USMS.
- Organize religious volunteers from the community.
- Provides and updates programs for presentation to newly-arrived inmates/detainees/USMS.
- Provide religious counseling for inmates/detainees/USMS, family members, and staff.
- Prepare a schedule of all religious activities.
- Maintain resource directory.
- Notify inmates/detainees/USMS of serious illness, death, or disturbing events.
- Notify inmates/detainees/USMS family of serious illness or death of inmates/detainees/USMS.
- Maintain communications with faith communities and approve donations of equipment or material for use in religious programs.
- Maintain attendance and confidential records.
- Assures equal status and protection for all religions.
- Promote the development of positive social skills through modeling appropriate behaviors and intervening when inappropriate behaviors are observed.
