What are the responsibilities and job description for the Chaplain - Lakin Correctional Facility - Mason Co. position at State of West Virginia?
Nature of Work
The Chaplain develops and maintains close relationships with community religious resources, ensures inmates have the opportunity to participate in practices of their religious faith that are deemed essential by the faith's judicatory, limited only by documentation showing threat to the safety of persons involved in such activity or that the activity itself disrupts order in the institution, approves donations of equipment or material for use in religious programs, governs special diets for inmates whose religious beliefs require the adherence to religious dietary laws, trains volunteers from faiths represented by the inmate population, and coordinates death bed and funeral visitation for immediate family of inmates.
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Minimum Qualifications
TRAINING: Graduation from an accredited college or university with a degree in religious education, divinity, pastoral counseling or a closely related field; or, graduation from a Bible College accredited by The Association for Biblical Higher Education; or graduation from a theological seminary accredited by the Association of Theological Schools.
SPECIAL REQUIREMENT: Certification of ordination or ecclesiastical commission by an endorsing body or denomination.
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