Associate Priest and Growing Faith Minister

Church Times; East Midlands; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

The Diocese of Leicester invites applications for an Associate Priest in The Langtons and Shangton Benefice and a Growing Faith Minister in the Launde Minster Community. These roles aim to grow faith, witness, and evangelism across rural parishes and schools, building strong partnerships within the Benefice and wider community.

We seek a caring, collaborative leader with outreach enthusiasm, IT and organisational skills, and a heart for mission.

Qualifications

• Leadership and pastoral oversight in parish ministry.
• Ability to coordinate outreach and work with schools and youth groups.
• Competent in IT and administration within church settings.

Responsibilities

• Lead and oversee ministry within The Langtons and Shangton Benefice and Launde Minster Community.
• Encourage evangelism and outreach to children and schools.
• Collaborate with the wider church community and ensure safeguarding.

Skills

Leadership

Organisational skills

IT skills

Active listening

Education

Priest qualification

Job description

Description:

The Bishop is seeking to appoint an Associate Priest in The Langtons and Shangton Benefice and Growing Faith Minister in the Launde Minster Community The Launde Minster Community brings together parishes and benefices across the Launde Deanery in the east of Leicestershire. Together we hope to achieve our shared desire to see God’s Kingdom come, with people coming to know Jesus, growing in faith and ministry, and offering loving service to the community and the world. Growing Faith through partnerships between church and schools in the area is a key priority in this vision.

The Langtons and Shangton Benefice seek to serve their communities as witnesses and disciples of Jesus. To this end we seek a person who is:

• Caring and compassionate and ready to listen, with a heart for evangelism.
• Able to build on the good work in progress and undertake and encourage outreach to the young through contact with the schools and youth groups.
• Passionate about working within the Minster Community to take Christ into our rural communities.
• Someone with leadership, organisational and IT skills.
• Accepting that the ministry belongs to the whole church community and able to enable and encourage the body of Christ.

Closing date for applications Friday 30 October 2026

For an informal conversation please contact the Archdeacon of Leicester – The Venerable Richard Trethewey Email: [e-mail] or alternatively contact the Archdeacons’ EA – Paige Bradshaw-Jones • 07454 620223

We particularly welcome applications from UK Minority Ethnic/Global Majority Heritage candidates, especially those of Black descent, who are currently underrepresented in our organisation.

The Diocese of Leicester, part of the Church of England, is committed to the safeguarding, care and nurture of everyone within our church community. We follow the Church of England’s Safeguarding Policies and relevant statutory guidance. We believe that safeguarding is everybody’s business.

This post is subject to Enhanced Plus DBS check and proof of right to work in the UK. The Diocese is unable to offer a Certificate of Sponsorship.