Employment Opportunities with WM are usually posted here on this web site including jobs that are being offered by Associated Chaplaincies and across the WM Network.
Most chaplaincy opportunities are for volunteers. A voluntary Chaplain is expected to undertake to visit one, or occasionally two, workplaces on a regular basis.
Chaplains may be lay or ordained church members and they come from all types of background and occupations. Many are recently or early retired people with a great love for others, who are willing to commit a few hours a week or a fortnight to visiting a local workplace.
To do what?
To listen. To learn about the work being done, and to understand the aspirations of individuals and enterprises. To engage in many conversations, from the apparently trivial to the deeply significant. To build trusting relationships and to share with people the joys and successes, the setbacks and the stresses of working life.
On occasion, to stand-by in times of crisis, to reflect back to an organisation the chaplain’s perception of its life, perhaps to ask searching questions and to engage in constructive dialogue about key issues. You are the sort of person who will find chaplaincy rewarding, if you:
- enjoy meeting people
- can listen more than talk
- respect confidentiality
- know how to be cheerful
- are willing to learn
- enjoy working as a team member
What support can a chaplain expect ?
Chaplains are authorised and recognized by the six or more mainstream churches and commissioned to minister with their support. There is an approved appointments procedure, which includes ample opportunity to explore chaplaincy before a commitment is made.
All chaplains operate within teams, which are coordinated by a senior chaplain.
Training is provided appropriate to individual need and experience. WM offers a Chaplains Training Course in collaboration with Chaplaincy to people at Work, Cambridgeshire.
Chaplains derive satisfaction from their exercise of care for others, their recognition of the essential importance of daily work in providing for the needs of humanity and their appreciation of the potentially spiritual dimension to individual employment and to collective economic activity.
More about Workplace Chaplaincy (PDF, 73 KB)