Senior Prison and Youth Justice Chaplain

About the role

CatholicCare Victoria is recruiting a Senior Prison and Youth Justice Chaplain for its Chaplaincy and Pastoral Care program. The role provides spiritual and emotional support to residents, Corrections Victoria staff and other staff in correctional facilities, and includes leadership and operational responsibility for the program. It reports to the Senior Manager, Community Services, and requires regular travel across Victoria.

Key responsibilities

• Manage a varied client caseload through supervision of staff and direct service delivery, including managing a waiting list or active hold where required
• Provide first-level supervision and coaching of direct reports, and supervise pastoral care workers
• Recruit, manage and support volunteers in cooperation with relevant staff
• Coordinate Catholic and interfaith services and liaise with Catholic church authorities, dioceses and parishes
• Report monthly to the Senior Manager on progress against targets, objectives, deliverables and expenditure against budgets
• Contribute to program budgets, funding proposals and tenders, and to the development of service models, research and innovation
• Take part in forming programs and work practices, and support the Senior Manager in implementing operational and business plans
• Maintain links with funding bodies, government departments (including the Department of Justice) and other stakeholders

Required profile

• Relevant tertiary qualification, preferably in Theology, Pastoral Care, Human Services or Community Development
• Active member of the Catholic Church with a strong commitment to the Catholic ethos and Catholic Social Teaching
• At least one unit of Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) or equivalent supervised pastoral education, or a demonstrated capacity to begin progress towards it
• Demonstrated experience delivering health, justice, social or community services
• Demonstrated experience supervising client-facing staff in human services programs in a multi-disciplinary setting