We seek someone who will lead us as part of a team to live out our mission and to develop and sustain fresh expressions of faith in our wider community. Someone who can embrace a broad range of styles of worship, services and prayer.

St Mary’s Church in Hinckley is a busy, diverse community and our building is open every day. Hinckley is a thriving market town, 13 miles from Leicester, with good transport links to the rest of the country.

Our mission statement is ‘We are an open church aiming to make God’s love real through worship and by being a welcoming community where we try to care every day for everyone.’

We would like to hear from candidates who

• Can enable, facilitate and encourage
• Can deepen our discipleship
• Can lead, manage and inspire a growing team of staff and volunteers
• Has a strong sense of mission, a long-term vision of outreach and able to partner with other organisations within our wider community, able to think ‘outside the box’
• Is able to communicate and converse with the diverse community within the church and in the town
• Has a pastoral heart, alongside compassion and a sense of humour
• Has good understanding of safeguarding requirements
• Has good IT skills and is able to communicate using modern technology, social media and more traditional ways

For more information about this application process, please use this link

Please see Parish Profile.

Please visit our websites:

www.leicester.anglican.org

www.stmaryshinckley.co.uk

Close date for Applications: Wednesday 6 March 2019

Interview Date: Tuesday 26 March 2019

This post is subject to DBS enhanced disclosure. There is An Occupational Requirement for the appointed person to be an ordained member of the Church of England under the 2010 Equality Act, Part 1, Schedule 9.