The Salvation Army jobs in Sutton SM1

Hours: 20 hours per week

Interview Date: To be confirmed

One of the UK’s most inspiring and best-known faith-based organisations is looking for a spiritual leader and an active member of their local Church, who has the necessary skills, gifts, knowledge, and experience for representing The Salvation Army and fully understands and respects the values, vision, and mission priorities.

As a Chaplain you are required to uphold the principles of the sending body (The Salvation Army), and its mission through providing a Christian presence, spiritual leadership, guidance and pastoral care to those within your receiving body, establishment or community.

Within this role you will:

• Be a visibly accessible representative of The Salvation Army and its identity, culture, ethos and associate values.
• Ensure regular and meaningful Christian worship takes place, that is appropriate and tailored to those within the receiving body, including the celebration of Christian festivals, and to provide opportunities for Christian discovery/discipleship
• Assess and address the cultural, religious and spiritual needs of all including those of other faiths and seek to build cross-community relationships to this end. To provide guidance on multi-faith issues, ensuring that the spiritual wellbeing of all is recognised and supported.
• Support the positive working relationships with the wider Salvation Army, other faith organisations and churches, statutory and NGO agencies, local schools and the local council where relevant.
• Be personally accountable for ensuring that you always work to the employed spiritual leader ‘Code of Practice’.
• Actively engage with and fulfil all learning and development requirements identified by the organisation as essential to the successful performance of a Chaplain.
• Actively engage with and fulfil all assessment programmes (including psychological) required to be completed by employed spiritual leaders.

To succeed in this role, you will be able to demonstrate:

• A vibrant relationship with Jesus Christ, actively practising and demonstrably living a Christian life
• Strong successful experience of providing spiritual leadership, guidance and pastoral support, leading gathered worship, and supporting people to explore their Christian faith
• Strong Christian theological and bible knowledge with the ability to apply that in a practical, engaging and effective way to facilitate the teachings of our Christian faith to service users and colleagues
• Demonstrable excellent communication (written, verbal, and presentational) and interpersonal skills, with the proven ability to convey information effectively to a wide range of audiences and develop strong, successful, and collaborative working relationships
• Strong practical knowledge and experience of relevant compliance requirements related to areas including health and safety, safeguarding, data protection, equality and diversity

This role has an Occupational Requirement (OR) to be active in your local church, a practising and committed Christian, with strong theological & biblical knowledge, and the ability to support people develop and explore their Christian faith. In addition, you will be in sympathy with the doctrines of, and supportive of, the purposes and the aims and objectives of The Salvation Army.

In order to complete your application please download and read the job profile and any other attachments.

In the job profile you will find the criteria required for the role please make sure that you address this in your supporting statement as this forms the basis of our shortlisting.

Appointment will be subject to satisfactory employment and Church references, a criminal record check (DBS: Enhanced with barred list adult workforce DBS Disclosure), relevant qualifications, Psychosocial assessment and evidence of your Right to Work in the UK in line with Home Office requirements. As we are not a licensed sponsor, applicants must already have the right to work in the UK. Details on how to prove your Right to Work can be found here.

The Salvation Army actively promote equality of opportunity for all with the right mix of talent, skills and potential, and we welcome applications from a wide range of candidates, including those with criminal records.

Please note that any Salvation Army employees who are under notice of redundancy and apply for this position will be given priority consideration.

We reserve the right to close this advert earlier if we feel that we have received sufficient applications.

Promoting equality in the workplace and as a disability confident leader scheme employer, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet all the minimum essential criteria for the vacancy.