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  • Job start date

    1 September 2025

  • Closing date

    16 June 2025 at 9am

  • Date listed

    23 May 2025

Job details

Job role

  • Pastoral, health and welfare

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Working pattern

Full time

Contract type

Permanent

Full-time equivalent salary

H6-H7. £25,531 - £29,407

Lead School Chaplain job summary

Are you passionate about helping our school and parish communities engage with, and explore their faith? Do you have a strong personal faith and the ability to communicate with, lead and inspire our young people?

St Joan of Arc Catholic School has an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and energetic individual who has the passion as a faith leader to work with children and young people, and who can help them explore and engage with their faith.

You will lead and develop a vibrant chaplaincy provision across our school, as well as support the Youth Ministry provision of the Trust's connected parishes.

This is a vital role, working alongside the Headteacher to shape the Catholic Life and Mission of our schools, co-ordinating and resourcing liturgical events, and providing spiritual growth and pastoral care to students, families and staff.

You will support the Catholic Life and Collective Worship of our school communities and will work with, and be supported by, a growing Chaplaincy team across the wider Trust.

Please note, there is a genuine occupational requirement that applicants should be practising Catholics, and your Parish Priest will be approached for a reference to confirm this.

37 hrs per week, 39 weeks per year (term-time only, plus INSET days ) - some flexibility in working hours will be required, in order to support residential or retreat events

Hay Pay Range from H6 to H7, Actual salary £25,351 - £29,407 per annum, dependent on experience

Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.

Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.

Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children

You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.

Applying for the job

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

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About Saint Joan of Arc Catholic School

School type
Academy, Roman Catholic, ages 11 to 18
Education phase
Secondary
School size
1230 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 18
Ofsted report
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St Joan of Arc Catholic School is a comprehensive, Catholic, 11-18 co-educational school of approx 1250 students, including 200 in the Sixth Form. Academic results are consistently high and the school is heavily oversubscribed.

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