Anglican Chaplain

Serco: HMP Dovegate, Uttoxeter, Staffordshire, ST14 8XR

Permanent, Part Time (16 hours p/w)

Competitive Salary + excellent benefits

Ready to impact a better future?

As an Anglican Chaplain in our Justice and Immigration team, you'll play a vital role in supporting prisoners, colleagues, and the wider prison community through faith leadership, pastoral care, and spiritual guidance. Your work will help create a positive environment that promotes rehabilitation, wellbeing, and personal growth.

This is a unique opportunity to make a meaningful difference every day. Working as part of a Multi-Faith Chaplaincy team, you'll support individuals from a wide range of backgrounds, helping them navigate challenging circumstances, maintain hope, and prepare for a positive future. Our work touches lives in ways that have a lasting impact on individuals, families, and communities.

What you'll do as an Anglican Chaplain

• Provide faith leadership, pastoral care, and spiritual guidance to prisoners, colleagues, and their families as required


• Plan and lead worship services, prayer meetings, religious education activities, and faith-based programmes


• Deliver pastoral support to prisoners, helping them through difficult situations and periods of crisis


• Work collaboratively within the Multi-Faith Chaplaincy team to ensure the needs of all faith communities are supported


• Develop and maintain positive relationships with local faith groups and community organisations to support rehabilitation and resettlement


• Maintain accurate records, contribute to reporting requirements, and support compliance with prison service specifications and chaplaincy standards

Does this sound like you?

• Ordained Anglican minister or otherwise authorised and endorsed to undertake Anglican chaplaincy duties


• Experience providing pastoral care, spiritual guidance, or faith leadership within a community, institutional, or chaplaincy environment


• Strong communication and relationship-building skills, with the ability to engage confidently with a diverse range of individuals and stakeholders


• Able to work collaboratively as part of a multidisciplinary team while maintaining professional and ethical standards


• Good IT literacy and organisational skills, with the ability to manage records and administrative responsibilities effectively

What we offer

• Competitive annual leave entitlement (and the option to buy up to five additional leave days each year)


• Up to 6% contributory pension scheme


• Free on-site car parking


• Employee Assistance Programme, Bupa Anytime HealthLine, wellbeing app, 30% off at Serco-managed leisure centres, and 24/7 access to a virtual GP service


• Discounts across around 1,000 retailers, from food and clothing to days out, entertainment and travel

Vetting and checks

An Enhanced Level 1 check is required for this role. This includes spent and unspent convictions, cautions, and any relevant information held by local police, in accordance with the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act and safeguarding requirements. You will also complete an Occupational Health Questionnaire to allow us to provide any support needed for you to succeed in the role.

Let's impact a better future, together. Apply today.

A little bit about us:
At Serco, everyone plays a vital part in delivering essential public services that make a real difference. As a global team of 50,000 people across Defence, Transport, Justice, Immigration, Healthcare, Leisure and Citizen Services, we’re united by a shared purpose: to improve the services that communities rely on. Guided by our values of Trust, Care, Innovation and Pride, our people make meaningful impact, every single day.

Our inclusive recruitment commitment:
We prioritise your skills and potential. As a Disability Confident Leader, a top Great British Employer of Veterans, and a Gold Inclusive Employer Standard holder, we champion equal opportunities for all. We offer flexible and hybrid working where possible and make reasonable adjustments throughout recruitment and employment.

• Guaranteed Interview Scheme: Applicants with disabilities, veterans and people with convictions, who meet the minimum job criteria, are guaranteed an interview. Simply opt into the relevant scheme on the application form.


• Ban The Box: We also support fair access for those with unspent criminal convictions through our ‘Ban the Box’ pledge (some roles may have security exemptions).

For support with your application, please contact [email protected].

Let’s impact a better future, together. Apply today.

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