Team Vicar, Christ Our Hope - St Cuthbert Croxteth Park
We are looking for an outward-looking and mission-focused priest for this lively local church in the central tradition; someone who will also enjoy and be energised by working in the newly established team ministry of Christ our Hope, working collaboratively with clergy and lay teams across a wider area.
You will be working with a Team Rector and 6 other team vicars as well as many other lay and ordained colleagues. Recently established central support services provide administrative, financial and buildings support across the whole team. Together the vision is to be growing Christ-centred communities that enable everyone to flourish through the four mission priorities, embedded in prayer with supported communication and a focus on becoming a younger more diverse church.
Within this team, the Team Vicar will have particular responsibility for leading the church of St Cuthbert on the Croxteth Park estate. You will also be expected to lead a portfolio across the wider parish, commensurate with your particular skills and experience.
St Cuthbert’s Church is in the heart of Croxteth Park Estate, a large estate of mixed housing, mostly developed in the 1980s on land that was formerly part of Croxteth Country Park. The park borders the estate. Located on a northern edge of the city, there’s easy access to the motorway network, and a regular bus service gets you into the city centre within 30 minutes. The church is near a small selection of shops (including mini-market, post office, takeaway, cafe, chemist and beauty parlour), a medical practice, nursery and Community Centre. The estate consists of a variety of dwellings and initially these were privately owned. Some houses have been acquired by housing associations and there is provision for assisted living in the community. According to the CUF data (accessed the estate has a population of 6657 and is ranked 4870 out of 12178 where 1 is the most deprived parish. Currently the church has an electoral roll of 114, with most people living on the Croxteth Park Estate.
The church has close relationships with the local school, which is a joint Anglican and Roman Catholic primary school, and with uniformed organisations which meet on the church site. It will be important that the new vicar is able and enthusiastic in working with children and young people, and keen to develop and build on these relationships. The church has three active all age congregations, with a relaxed, central eucharistic church tradition. They are looking for a vicar who will encourage them to be outward looking and mission focussed, who will preach and teach well, and who will help them to share their faith with their neighbours.
Closing Date: Sunday 2nd November
Interview Dates: Thursday 27th November
We are continuing our work to actively increase the diversity of those working in the diocese and in pursuit of that we are using anonymous shortlisting.