Team Vicar in the Wirksworth Team

Vacancy Reference cofe/TP/67999/7883

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Number of Positions:

Contract Type:

Office Holder

Salary/Stipend:

£31690 - £31690

Location:

Wirksworth

Closing Date:

08/01/2025

Vacancy Category:

Clergy

Business Unit:

Diocese of Derby

Organizational Unit:

Church Commissioners

Introduction

Team Vicar in Wirksworth Team

After a year in post, the Team Rector is looking to appoint an enthusiastic mission-minded priest with a pastoral heart and passion for rural ministry. We hope for someone who can work collaboratively and pastorally across these village communities: sustaining existing church life creatively and missionally; developing lay ministries; supporting and developing existing work amongst children, young people, families and households; and innovating new community partnerships with a view to forming worshipping communities.

Specific Role Requirements

To play a full part in the life, work and worship of the clergy team including leading Sunday worship across the Team, joining in Daily Offices and regular Team meetings
To work with colleagues to deliver the Team Mission Action Plan and to ensure the delivery of ongoing mission, ministry, pastoral care, leadership and governance across the Team
To hold oversight for existing Messy Churches and to expand these and other new worshipping communities for children, young people and households across the Team in conjunction with schools
To explore and develop potential partnerships and possibilities for outreach amongst young people, especially focussing on creating links with local senior schools and young people
To develop existing community engagement with the elderly expanding this with a view to forming new worshipping communities
To support the ecumenical work of Churches Together in Wirksworth and District
To participate in local church governance including; chairing PCCs and exploring how Team Council can make a greater contribution to the work and mission of the Team

General Role Purpose

To have regard to the calling of clergy as described in the ordinal
To fulfil the responsibilities of clergy as described in the canons and other relevant legislation.
In collaboration with your colleagues, to exercise the cure of souls shared with the bishop in this place and carry out the ministry of word and sacrament.
To enable the ministries of the laity in your congregations
To be rooted and present in these communities and to give people pastoral support and service (including baptisms, weddings, and funerals).
To ensure a high standard of worship, preaching and pastoral care is provided that the whole people of God are equipped to proclaim afresh in this generation the good news of the Kingdom
To advance the Kingdom of God in this place through leadership, collaboration, and example.
To collaborate with the Deanery in mission and ministry and seek opportunities for the churches in the deanery to share resources and support the wider area.
To work towards the Diocesan vision of the Kingdom of God: good news for all – seen in transformed lives, growing church, and building community.
To be attentive to delivering the diocesan outcomes of deepening relationships with God, making new Christians, serving local contexts and challenging injustice
To be mindful of diocesan priorities of commitment to contexts of poverty, and becoming younger, more diverse, and greener

There is significant potential for building upon the seasonal and agricultural cycle, work amongst schools, launching initiatives such as Messy Church or forest church, creating pastoral care teams to support families and the elderly within the community and working ecumenically across boundaries. We are seeking a leader who can work collaboratively within a Team setting to inspire others to use their gifts and work in partnership to transform lives through growing church and building community. You will find a willingness and energy to look outward, to work in partnership with others and an aspiration to grow the church.

We offer you a desirable 4 bedroomed home within a modern housing estate in a lively market town in beautiful rural Derbyshire on the edges of the Dales and the Peak District but within 30 minute drive of the City of Derby.

Enquiries to: Archdeacon of Derbyshire Peak and Dales,

nicky.fenton@derby.anglican.org

For further information and to apply: derby.anglican.org/vacancies

Closing date is 8 January at 12pm

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