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Faith Leader – Campsfield IRC
Campsfield IRC is due to open soon as the UK's first all-electric Immigration Removal Centre, providing custody services. We are looking for respectful, diligent and caring colleagues to join our team.
Job objectives and responsibilities
To assist in delivering a comprehensive programme of worship and teaching opportunities for all faiths in line with contractual requirements, company standards and resident needs
Main duties
1. Promote, facilitate and deliver opportunities for worship and study for a faith groups including all necessary arrangements or protocols in line with contractual requirements, company standards and resident needs.
2. Facilitate and deliver services, programmes, activities and visits, liaising with external religious contractors, accredited religious representatives and volunteers to meet contractual requirements, company standards and resident needs.
3. Assist in the development of links with outside faith communities so the support provided within the Centre is current, in line with best practice and caters for all faiths.
4. Contribute to the maintenance of the dedicated faith areas ensuring an appropriate environment is provided.
5. Acquire and distribute within home faith group, after appropriate agreement and authorisation, religious literature, supplies and materials allowing residents to fully discharge their commitment to their faith.
6. Advise the Religious Affairs Manager, religious team and operational management team of relevant religious events including festivals, fasts, feasts to ensure that wherever reasonably possible residents can fully observe them.
7. Maintain a stock of appropriate religious artefacts for a faith group which will allow residents to fully discharge their commitment to their faith.
8. Provide pastoral care to residents, staff and their families to assist in their safety, care and well-being.
Person Specification
This is a specialist position requiring appropriate qualifications and experience of organising and leading religious services.
Health and Safety responsibilities
9. Follow Group and company policies and procedures at all times
10. Adhere to agreed outreach methods and risk assessment to ensure own personal safety dealing with service users
11. Report any apparent deficiencies in systems of work or equipment provided that may result in failure of service delivery or risk to health and safety or the environment
12. Use all work equipment and personal PPE properly and in accordance with training received.
Information Security
13. Ensure compliance with Mitie's information security procedures in all activities
14. Proactively identify and report security risks to your manager
15. Report actual and suspected security incidents.
Specific Requirements
Please note that all offers of employment are subject to security clearance and enhanced background checks:
16. You must be a British Citizen, EU citizen with settled status, or have an ILR (Indefinite Leave to Remain) from a Commonwealth country.
17. Bankruptcy history, CCJs, social media activity and criminal convictions will be checked.
18. You must have lived in the UK for the past three years with no significant footprint outside of the UK other than for normal holidays.
Salary and benefits:
We value our people and offer a competitive salary and benefits package to support your lifestyle:
19. Life insurance.
20. Continued personal development with full support given to enhance your career.
21. Free Mitie shares.
22. Access to virtual GP 24/7 for yourself and your family.
23. MiDeals discount schemes with over offers available from your favourite retailers, leisure, and utilities companies.
24. Additional benefits available to purchase, including extra holidays, private medical cover and home technology.
Existing Mitie colleagues
25. Please ensure that you discuss your application with your current line manager before formally applying.
26. Please note that internal job moves are subject to the standard terms for the post being advertised. Enhanced terms cannot be honoured.
Our market-leading offering provides you with benefits that suit your lifestyle.
We have a virtual GP on hand for you and members of your household. So you can get expert advice by video or phone without having to leave your home. We offer financial wellbeing assistance through our Salary Finance scheme. For example, you could access 50% of your earned pay before payday for a small fee. Salary Finance also offers competitive loans.
When you join us, we’ll give you a link to our flexible lifestyle benefits platform, Choices. You might choose to purchase up to five extra days’ holiday each year. You might buy critical illness insurance, seek dental treatment or buy technology products at an affordable cost. There are many choices!
We give you access to high street discounts from thousands of well-known retailers, gyms and more through our MiDeals platform. And we have a cycle-to-work scheme. Life cover of up to four times your salary is available. We also offer enhanced pension contributions, a save-as-you-earn scheme, and a Mitie Matching Share Plan (you could even be awarded free shares in Mitie).
We award our employees with Mitie Stars as recognition for their hard work. There are cash prizes up for grabs each month and at the end of the year there’s a chance to scoop a top prize of £10,!
Our success is a direct result of the experience and quality of our people. Progressing your career is therefore a top priority for us. We offer a diverse variety of training and development avenues via a wide selection of learning resources to suit you.
We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or long-term condition (for example dyslexia, anxiety, autism, a mobility condition or hearing loss) and need us to make any reasonable adjustments, changes or do anything differently during the recruitment process, please let us know by emailing at .