Associate Minister (House for Duty: 2 days plus Sunday)

Church Times; Greater London; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 46,000; Full time

Job summary

Church Times seeks a prayerful, energetic and compassionate priest to lead across seven rural churches in Oxfordshire. You will join a supportive ministry team, fostering community spirit and pastoral care in a close-knit village network.

The role invites engagement with local parish life, coffee mornings, garden gates, and village events, emphasizing ministry with warmth, humour and relational leadership.

Qualifications

• Must be prayerful, energetic and compassionate.
• Understands joys and challenges of rural multi-parish life.
• Willing to join a supportive, good-humoured ministry team serving seven churches.

Responsibilities

• Provide pastoral leadership across seven churches in one Oxfordshire parish cluster.
• Engage with communities through parish activities, services and outreach.
• Collaborate with a ministry team to coordinate planning and care across villages.

Skills

Pastoral care

Teamwork

Compassion

Prayerful

Education

Ordained priest

Job description

A kettle on the boil. Muddy boots by the door. Seven villages where people genuinely look out for each other. If that sounds like your kind of ministry, you may feel very much at home here.

We’re looking for a prayerful, energetic, compassionate priest who understands the joys (and occasional chaos) of rural multi parish life—and who wants to join a supportive, good humoured ministry team serving seven churches in one very lovely corner of Oxfordshire, ten miles south west of Oxford.

This is a place where faith runs deep (even when unspoken), where community really matters, and where the best pastoral encounters often happen over a garden gate or at a village coffee morning. We’d love to welcome a colleague who enjoys that kind of ministry as much as we do.

Interested?

We’d love to talk—informally, openly, no pressure.

For a conversation, contact: Associate Archdeacon, Rev. Preb. Jane Haslam – [e-mail]

Or the Rector, Rev. Talisker Macleod – [e-mail]

Closing date: 8th November 2026

Interviews: 2nd December 2026

DBS Enhanced Disclosure required.

Because sometimes the best ministry really does happen with muddy boots and a warm mug in hand.