Friday, 14 February 2020

Professional Chaplains


Professional Chaplains
A profession is said to be a highly skilled work, or a job requiring high education and training. It is also a group of people engaged in a specialized work requiring high skills, training, education and knowledge.
Professionalism in any given profession requires specialized skill acquisition, high level of training and education which enhances competence, skill and proficiency on the part of the professionals in carrying out their duties, and rendering profitable services.
A professional is that person who has been adequately trained in a specialized type of work, that requires a high degree of education and competence in occupying the position made for such and performing the task and duties attached to such position or placement.
By every standard, professionals are expected to be highly trained and skilled people, responsible for performing the assigned  tasks  in the most appropriate, profitable and efficient manner to the admiration of people and colleagues,
These professionals always go about the performance of their assigned duties in the best acceptable professional ways and in accordance with their profession’s standards and ethics.
Professionals are by no means mediocre as they are educated to be on top of the situations, showcasing their competence and proficiency in the discharge of their duties and fulfilling their responsibilities in service delivery as specialists in their fields.
Professional Chaplains are clergies or clerics of any religion, who have been adequately trained, prepared and equipped to perform specialize chaplaincy service delivery to people in various sector of the economy.
Professional Chaplains are expected to be highly educated, trained and skilled to competently handle tasks assigned to them professionally. They are expected to be highly skillful in providing the needed solution to challenges and problems of humanity.
Professional chaplains are expected to take chaplaincy practice and services to every sector of the economy, as there are vacancies for them in all human endeavours to practice the chosen profession.
Professional chaplains should be responsible for the advancement of their profession and help bring about the needed improvement in the profession through their best practices.
Professional chaplains should champion the advocacy needed in the chaplaincy profession.
Chap. Prof. David Mike-Jacobs
Certified Chaplaincy Educator

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