Mission Associate (Priest-in-Charge), Idle & Sands Parish
Ministerial Vacancies
Working for us as a member of clergy in one of our rural, urban, or inner city parishes will be as varied and interesting as the people of Nottinghamshire you serve. The diocese is based in the heart of the East Midlands, close to the bustling city of Nottingham, and with easy access to London by train with good transport links up, down and across the country. You can be assured of regular pastoral and spiritual support from our Discipleship and Ministry Team, ensuring that your development needs are met in your Ministerial Development Review, with opportunities for peer support and personal growth.
Date:
9 July 2026
An opportunity for innovative rural ministry
We are excited to welcome our next priest to work with us on our plans for growth and with the aim to be a blessing to our communities. Our varied group of parishes have worked hard to bring fun and faith to everything we do. We have several schools in our villages where we enjoy strong relationships and a keen and committed lay team.
Our diocesan vision is to grow disciples of Christ, with Compassion, Confidence and Courage – across the different contexts of our diocese. We want to see this realised in our wonderful rural villages and have developed an innovative model for mission and ministry to bring this about. Our model for rural revitalisation is built upon our learning to date and seeks to link local missional opportunities with strategically placed resources and leadership, focussed around a common vision led by our Lead Mission Enablers, who are ordained priests.
We want to appoint clergy who are excited by this vision to stipendiary posts as Mission Associates (Priests-in-Charge) in our rural clusters, who will be playing an integral part of the team leading this forward.
This post sits within rural Cluster 1 and our new Priest-in-Charge will work alongside 3 other stipendiary colleagues.
Do you have the skills, gifts and calling to be part of this vision? Are you someone who is passionate about lives being transformed and seeing churches flourish? Can you work collaboratively and creatively with a well-resourced team of lay and ordained colleagues?
Our parishes are beautiful and wonderful places to work. As a diocese we work to deliver our visionary aspirations together to enable the growth and health of the local church and offer support through learning communities, leadership, training and expertise from our diocesan team at Jubilee House.
MISSION ASSOCIATE ROLE
If you have a heart for mission, a love of rural communities and the vision to help churches grow, we would love to hear from you.
Come and discover what God may be calling you to among the churches and communities of the Parish of the
Find out more about the role from other Mission Associates below:
READY TO EXPLORE?
If you would like an informal conversation about this opportunity, please email adsupport@southwell.anglican.org to arrange a time to talk further.
Interviews will be held on 17th September. The closing date is 19th August.