UK Prisons Recruit ‘Pagan Chaplains’ on £30k-a-Year Salaries

Feb 28, 2018 by

by Victoria Friedman, Breitbart:

The Ministry of Justice is recruiting pagan chaplains to provide “religious care” at prisons across the country – with annual salaries of up to £29,ooo – despite many of the recruiting prisons facing guard shortages, Islamic extremist inmates, and drug epidemics.

“The job holder will provide for the religious care of prisoners and staff in the Pagan faith tradition and appropriate pastoral care for all irrespective of faith or tradition,” one job description for a role covering Dartmoor, Channings Wood, and Exeter prisons reads.

Applicants would be expected to “lead open ritual, officiate in Rites of Passage, and run workshops for mixed Pagan traditions within the prison system” and must be formally endorsed by their “faith community” – through the Prison Service Pagan Faith Adviser.

The pagan chaplain roles advertised on the Ministry of Justice job site, across nearly a dozen ‘clusters’ serving 35 prisons, range in salary from £25,920 to £29,176 per annum pro rata – roughly equivalent to the salary of a prison officer – for full, part-time, and job share applicants. The salary could also include a 17 per cent “unsocial hours” payment.

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