This role is an exciting opportunity for someone to join our team who loves to make Jesus known in the lives of children and their families. It will also be an opportunity to establish new initiatives to reach out to those in our local community, as well as pastor the established church families. You need to have a passion for kids (especially pre-school age children, as that is currently the main age-range of children we have in church), as well as being comfortable working with parents.
The main duties of the Children’s Pastor role comprise:
(i) leading and co-ordinating the Sunday school and creche at St Peter’s church during our 10.30am morning service;
(ii) running a playgroup for toddlers and their parents once a week on Wednesday mornings (Wiggles & Worship);
(iii) continue and expand on our ad-hoc initiatives, such as Messy church and Holiday club;
(iv) being our Parish Safeguarding Officer (PSO) and ensuring that safeguarding standards are adhered to across our church.
This is a part-time role, from 2 to 2.5 days a week, depending on the candidate. The work pattern would be: Tuesday (all day), Wednesday (morning only or all day) and Sunday morning.
The full job description can be found on our website here.