Pastoral Care Lead

Job Title: Pastoral Care Lead

Employer: Kerrier Deanery Community Interest Company

Location: Home based, with travel across Kerrier Deanery

Salary: £27,500 per annum

Contract: Three-year fixed term, full-time (35 hours per week)

Responsible to: Kerrier Rural Dean (Team Rector)

About Us:

Join the Kerrier Deanery Ministry Team as we work with our congregations and vibrant communities. Our mission is to bring Christ’s love and life into our diverse deanery, and we are looking for a dynamic individual to join our pioneering Ministry Team.

About the Role:

The Pastoral Care Lead will develop and implement strategies for high-quality pastoral care, build and organise teams of volunteers, and support the development of lay ministers. You will work closely with the Rural Dean to create structures for delivering pastoral care across the deanery, ensuring that the specific needs of different communities and congregations are met.

Key Responsibilities:

Bereavement Care: Develop relationships with funeral directors, coordinate clergy for funerals, and support bereavement care teams.
Care for the Sick and Housebound: Identify and coordinate pastoral visits and home communions, establish and train volunteer teams, and maintain a prayer diary.
Training, Safeguarding, and Best Practice: Oversee safeguarding procedures, support clergy in pastoral care, and provide pastoral care training for the developing deanery ministries including Fresh Expressions.

Ministry Team Responsibilities:

Leading and preaching at Sunday services either as a Priest or a Lay Minister
Attend Chapter and Deanery meetings.
Communicate issues around rural poverty and social isolation.
Ensure adherence to Safeguarding and Health and Safety procedures.
Person Specification:

Essential: Diploma-level qualification or equivalent, experience managing volunteers, experience in pastoral care with empathy and emotional intelligence, successful church ministry experience, team player, self-starter, excellent administrative and communication skills, access to own transport.
Desirable: Full clean driving licence and own vehicle, understanding of rural life, experience in securing grant funding, ordained minister in the Church of England.

Requirements:

Practising Christian (occupational requirement)
Commitment to safeguarding policies
Enhanced DBS check required

How to Apply:

Complete the attached application form and email Revd Heidi Huntley – heidiruraldean@gmail.com

Join us in shaping the future of our community and bringing Christ’s love to Cornwall!