Job description Religious Education Worker in Canada

Find out what work is like for a religious education worker in Canada. This work description is applicable to all Other religious occupations (NOC 42204).

Religion workers

Description

Religion workers include brothers, nuns, monks, religious education workers and others who provide support to ministers of religion or to a religious community and who perform certain functions associated with the practice of a religion. They may perform these duties in churches, synagogues, temples or other places of worship; in institutions such as schools, hospitals and prisons; or in industrial facilities, corporate enterprises; or they may work in private practice.

Work week duration

Religion workers usually work more than 40 hours per week.
More than 40 hours

Job duties

Here are some of the main activities and tasks that Religion workers have to perform, and some of the physical demands they involve:

  • Assist at services of public worship and religious rites
  • Provide religious education, spiritual guidance and moral support to members of a religious community
  • Conduct outreach activities and facilitate community involvement
  • Administer programs providing food, clothing and shelter
  • May plan, organize and lead worship services and church activities for a specific audience.

Physical demands Help - Physical Demands

  • Standing
  • Sitting

Workplaces and employers

Here are the typical workplaces where Religion workers are employed and some of their main characteristics:

  • Churches
  • Corporate enterprises
  • Synagogues
  • Institutions such as schools, hospitals and prisons
  • Temples
  • Private practice
  • Industrial facilities
  • Places of worship

Work environment Help - Physical Work Environment

  • Indoors, environmentally controlled

Physical proximity from others Help - Physical proximity from others

  • Close (at arm’s length)

Related job titles

Here are some other related job titles that are found in the same occupational category (NOC 42204), and a list of similar occupations:

  • Christian science practitioner
  • Salvation Army field worker
  • brother/sister - religion
  • deacon
  • missionary
  • monk
  • nun
  • pastoral animator
  • religious education worker

Similar occupations Help - Similar occupations

Sources Occupational and Skills Information System & National Occupational Classification

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