What are the responsibilities and job description for the Chaplain II position at State of Oklahoma?
Basic Purpose
Positions in this job family are involved in providing religious services, counseling and
guidance to patients, inmates, residents, students, family members or coworkers in a
state hospital, institution or facility. This includes performing religious ceremonies, holding
services, providing religious education and planning special programs and activities.
Typical Functions
At this level employees are assigned responsibility for directing and participating in
religious programs at a state facility, including supervision of other religious activities staff.
This includes visiting residents on a regular or special basis, performing or arranging for
appropriate religious professionals to perform baptisms, marriages, last rites or funerals,
providing professional religious counseling and guidance, and participating in special
programs to facilitate readjustment to the community. In this role, employees will provide
religious assessment reports, participate in treatment planning, and consult with staff in
carrying out an overall therapy program. Positions are assigned supervision of staff,
including assigning and reviewing work, providing training, evaluating performance, and
performing other administrative duties.
Education And Experience
Education and Experience requirements at this level consist of a master’s degree in divinity, theology or religious education and three years of professional level experience in the clergy and an endorsement from the individual’s respective faith OR a bachelor’s degree religion, theology, or religious education from accredited institution of higher learning and four years of professional level experience in the clergy and an endorsement from the individual’s respective faith OR eight years of professional level experience in the clergy with endorsement from the individual’s faith community includes ordination, ecclesiastical endorsement, ministerial license, or other formal recognition from a local faith community or larger religious organization.
NOTE: No substitution will be allowed for the endorsement from the faith.
Knowledge, Skills, Abilities And Competencies
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities required at this level include knowledge of various faiths,
religious doctrines, principles and practices of the faith practiced; and of religious
counseling, theory and practice. Ability is required to conduct religious services and rites;
to develop the moral and spiritual life of patients, inmates, students, and residents; to
provide religious guidance and counseling; to devise and instruct religious education
programs; to establish and maintain effective working relationships with others; to
communicate effectively, both orally and in writing; to organize a program of religious
service and education; and to organize the work of others.
Additional Job Description
Mack Alford Correctional Center
Positions in this job family are involved in providing religious services, counseling and
guidance to patients, inmates, residents, students, family members or coworkers in a
state hospital, institution or facility. This includes performing religious ceremonies, holding
services, providing religious education and planning special programs and activities.
Typical Functions
- Arranges for and oversees formal and informal religious services, religious education, ceremonies, and rights provided by volunteers or inmate facilitators.
- Manages all volunteers serving at the institution or facility and coordinates the services, programs, and activities they provide.
- Provides pastoral care to inmates. This includes but is not limited to death notifications, family emergencies and other crisis situations. May assist with pastoral needs of facility co-workers on a limited, and as needed basis.
- Coordinates special religious activities and volunteer led special events.
- Works with facility staff to ensure inmate religious and spiritual needs are met in accordance with policy and federal statutes, this includes religious dietary needs, religious property, and access to religious services.
- Conducts new inmate facility orientations regarding religious services and volunteer programs.
- Ensures that inmates assigned to specialized housing units receive ministerial visits and their religious/spiritual needs are met in accordance with policy.
- Oversees the inmate marriage process at the institution or facility.
- Serves as a liaison between the institution and community or faith-based organizations.
At this level employees are assigned responsibility for directing and participating in
religious programs at a state facility, including supervision of other religious activities staff.
This includes visiting residents on a regular or special basis, performing or arranging for
appropriate religious professionals to perform baptisms, marriages, last rites or funerals,
providing professional religious counseling and guidance, and participating in special
programs to facilitate readjustment to the community. In this role, employees will provide
religious assessment reports, participate in treatment planning, and consult with staff in
carrying out an overall therapy program. Positions are assigned supervision of staff,
including assigning and reviewing work, providing training, evaluating performance, and
performing other administrative duties.
Education And Experience
Education and Experience requirements at this level consist of a master’s degree in divinity, theology or religious education and three years of professional level experience in the clergy and an endorsement from the individual’s respective faith OR a bachelor’s degree religion, theology, or religious education from accredited institution of higher learning and four years of professional level experience in the clergy and an endorsement from the individual’s respective faith OR eight years of professional level experience in the clergy with endorsement from the individual’s faith community includes ordination, ecclesiastical endorsement, ministerial license, or other formal recognition from a local faith community or larger religious organization.
NOTE: No substitution will be allowed for the endorsement from the faith.
Knowledge, Skills, Abilities And Competencies
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities required at this level include knowledge of various faiths,
religious doctrines, principles and practices of the faith practiced; and of religious
counseling, theory and practice. Ability is required to conduct religious services and rites;
to develop the moral and spiritual life of patients, inmates, students, and residents; to
provide religious guidance and counseling; to devise and instruct religious education
programs; to establish and maintain effective working relationships with others; to
communicate effectively, both orally and in writing; to organize a program of religious
service and education; and to organize the work of others.
Additional Job Description
Mack Alford Correctional Center
