Vacancies List
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20 May 2025, 11:51 a.m.
in ClergyPriest in Charge - Carlisle Holy Trinity & St Barnabas
Priest in Charge
Benefice of Carlisle Holy Trinity & St Barnabas
Come and grow with us in faith, courage and community.
We are seeking a Priest in Charge who brings strong theological depth, spiritual resilience, and a collaborative heart to lead our large and socially diverse parish.
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7 May 2025, 5:27 p.m.
in ClergyAssociate Minister (Part-time), Western Dales Mission Community
Join us in the heart of the stunning Yorkshire Dales National Park. We’re looking for an ordained Anglican, Methodist or URC minister who loves leading diverse, ecumenical worship, values pastoral care, and will enjoy connecting with rural and farming communities. Housing is provided in the village of Dent. This is a part-time role - Sundays plus two days.
You’ll be part of a supportive team, serving across eight Anglican churches and four Methodist chapels, helping to grow faith and build community in this beautiful setting. Your role will include:
• Leading Sunday worship (Holy Communion & Services of the Word)
• Providing pastoral care across our parishes and chapels
• Conducting baptisms, weddings, and funerals
• Collaborating on outreach and special events
We offer a warm welcome, a strong ecumenical spirit, and the chance to make a real difference in a rural setting.
For an informal conversation, please contact Archdeacon Vernon Ross.
Email - archdeacon.south@carlislediocese.org.uk
Phone - 015395 34717
Completed applications should be sent to liz.howson@carlislediocese.org.uk
Details & Applications: www.carlislediocese.org.uk/vacancies
Closing date: Monday 9 June
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6 May 2025, 10:01 a.m.
in ClergyVicar of the Benefice of Crosthwaite, Cartmel Fell, Witherslack and Winster (held in plurality)
The churches of the Lyth and Winster Valleys in the South Lakes are looking for a new Vicar.
Are you forward-thinking, proactive and inspirational?
Do you have vision and empathy to help us with the task of mission and deepening of faith in our rural villages?
Will you help us to discern God’s priorities for us, and lead and support us going forward?
We are looking for someone who
• is a person of prayer and of strong faith, with a focus on growing and making disciples
• is a team player, able to work collaboratively with lay and clergy, and able to recognise and make the best use of people’s strengths and abilities
• is welcoming and outgoing, with good humour and a sense of fun
• will have broad sympathy with and respect for the diversity of our different churches.
This person will
• take overall pastoral responsibility for the five parishes and, as Co-leader of the Mission Community, help us develop and strengthen further our links with each other
• work with us to develop a broader outreach to the local community, especially younger people and families, looking at different ways of ‘doing church’
• be a pastor with a big heart for both church members and the wider communities
• strengthen and develop the existing links with the schools in our parishes and increase the Christian presence in each.
We offer
• supportive congregations
• a committed team of lay and ordained colleagues
• cheerful, welcoming communities
• a beautiful place to live and work in the Lake District National Park, within easy reach of the thriving market town of Kendal, with its mainline railway station and access to the M6.
This is a full time stipendiary post (£31,840 as at April 2025).
For more information contact the Archdeacon of Westmorland and Furness: Ven Vernon Ross Email: archdeacon.south@carlislediocese.org.uk Tel: 07388 377105
For further details and application pack please visit www.carlislediocese.org.uk/vacancies
Closing date: 4 June 2025
Interview date: 15 July 2025
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18 Feb 2025, 3:49 p.m.
in ClergyAssociate Vicar, St John's Hensingham
We are a conservative evangelical church with a long history of faithful Bible teaching in the coastal town of Whitehaven in beautiful West Cumbria. We long to be ‘passionate disciples’ of the Lord Jesus who are transformed through a deeper knowledge of God’s Word.
• We are looking for a gifted disciple maker who can help us grow in spiritual maturity and pastor our children’s and youth volunteers.
• We are seeking a man* who shares our theology and is himself a
passionate disciple of Jesus to work alongside our newly appointed Vicar.
If God is stirring your heart to find out more about us, we look forward to getting to know you. www.stjohnshensingham.org.uk
For an informal conversation, please contact
Rev. Si Walker on 07713 389980 For a profile and application form, please visit www.carlislediocese.org.uk/vacancies
Closing date: 9 June. Interviews and visits: 15 July.
This is a full-time stipendiary post: £31,840
This post is subject to enhanced disclosure from the DBS.
*The PCC has requested, on the grounds of theological conviction, that arrangements be made for it in accordance with the House of Bishops’ Declaration on the Ministry of Bishops and Priests.
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