Chaplain

Code 2636.1

Chaplains perform religious activities in secular institutions. They perform counselling services and provide spiritual and emotional support to the people in the institution, as well as cooperate with priests or other religious officials to support religious activities in the community.

Essential skills

Knowledge

  • psychological counselling methods

Skills and competences

  • interpret religious texts
  • provide spiritual counselling
  • provide charity services
  • promote religious activities
  • perform religious ceremonies
  • respond to enquiries

Transversal competences

  • observe confidentiality
  • show empathy
  • provide social counselling
  • reinforce positive behaviour

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This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission and the Mapha Taxonomy developed by OTIC SOFOFA (CC BY 4.0), in an adapted version. Group codes come from the ILO's ISCO-08. See sources and licences