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Chaplain – Campsfield Immigration Removal Centre (IRC)
Location: Campsfield IRC, Kidlington, Oxfordshire
Type: Full-time | Permanent
Campsfield IRC is preparing to open as the UK's first all-electric Immigration Removal Centre, setting a new standard in custodial care. We are seeking a compassionate and committed Faith Leader to join our multi-faith chaplaincy team, supporting the spiritual and emotional wellbeing of residents and staff.
This is a unique opportunity for a religious minister to bring their calling into a diverse and dynamic environment, offering pastoral care, worship, and spiritual guidance to individuals from a wide range of faith backgrounds.
Your Mission
As Chaplain, you will:
1. Lead and facilitate worship and religious study for your faith group, ensuring services are inclusive, respectful, and aligned with residents' spiritual needs.
2. Provide pastoral care to residents, staff, and their families—offering comfort, counsel, and support during challenging times.
3. Collaborate with other faith leaders, volunteers, and external religious representatives to deliver a comprehensive multi-faith programme.
4. Maintain sacred spaces and ensure access to religious materials, artefacts, and literature appropriate to your faith tradition.
5. Advocate for religious observance, advising management on key festivals, fasts, and holy days to ensure residents can practice their faith meaningfully.
6. Build bridges with external faith communities, ensuring continuity of care and best practice in spiritual support.
Who We're Looking For
We welcome applications from ordained ministers, imams, rabbis, priests, pastors, and other accredited religious leaders who:
7. Are experienced in leading worship and providing pastoral care.
8. Hold appropriate theological or ministerial qualifications.
9. Are committed to interfaith collaboration and respectful dialogue.
10. Can work within a secure environment with sensitivity and discretion.
11. Are passionate about serving those in need, regardless of background or belief.
Additional Requirements
Due to the nature of the role, all applicants must:
12. Be a British citizen, EU citizen with settled status, or hold Indefinite Leave to Remain.
13. Have lived in the UK for the past three years.
14. Pass enhanced background checks including criminal record, financial history, and social media screening.
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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 Chloe Smailes at .