Woodlands Church Family is a large and vibrant, family of churches that serves the city of Bristol. Our vision is to see our city transformed by the love and power of Jesus. Branch Community Church is one of our growing church plants that serves the Henbury and Brentry area of the city.

Central to our plans to reach this city for Jesus are young people! In Bristol, there are 90,000 young people who don’t have regular contact with church or faith. We would love to see this change!

The position:
We are looking for someone who can work alongside the WCF youth team and congregation leaders to help our youth ministry double its impact in the next 5 years. Within this role, the sessional youth worker will work alongside volunteers to share faith, disciple and equip young people to live lives of whole-hearted devotion and commitment to Jesus.

Essential

A team player.
Sunday availability.
Reliable, adaptable and responsible.
Experience leading in a youth work setting.
Ability to share your faith effectively.
Biblical knowledge and the ability to teach.

Desirable

Relevant qualifications e.g. youth work, first aid.
Awareness of best practice in youth work.
Good administrative and IT skills.

Requirements:
This role has an occupational requirement that the post holder be a follower of Jesus and a worshipping member of either Woodlands Church Family or a Woodlands Associate church to ensure protection of our strong Christian ethos and values, and our charitable objective of advancing the Christian faith.

Terms
This is a part time, fixed-term 12-month contract at 4 hours per month.

The salary for this role is £23,500 – £24,250 pro rata, depending on experience. We give a generous leave allowance of 33 days including bank holidays.

The role will be primarily based at Branch Community Church, Henbury, Bristol with flexible and home working available by arrangement. The working pattern can be negotiated and a term time only contract may be considered for this role.

How to apply

Read through the following documents relating to this vacancy for full details on the role:

We are looking to fulfil this role as soon as possible aiming for a 1st November start date. Interviews for this role will be arranged upon receipt of application and the vacancy will close once a suitable candidate has been selected.

If you have any questions about the role and would like an informal chat please contact Jack Saunders, our Senior Youth Director at jack.saunders@woodlandschurch.net

For an application form please email our HR Administrator, at hr@woodllandschurch.net

Please send completed applications to our Senior Youth Director Jack Saunders at jack.saunders@woodlandschurch.net and copy them to our HR Lead Julia Shrimpton at hr@woodlandschurch.net.