Lead School Chaplain
Saint Joan of Arc Catholic School, Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, WD3 1HG8 days remaining to apply
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.
CVs are not accepted.
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
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Saint Joan of Arc Catholic School website
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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