Team Vicar – House for Duty Braunston, Brooke, Hambleton & Egleton
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Team Vicar – House for Duty Braunston, Brooke, Hambleton & Egleton St Andrew Hambleton St Peter Brooke St Edmund Egleton All Saints Braunston Oakham Team Ministry – Team Vicar – Braunston, Brooke, Hambleton & Egleton A welcome from the Team Rector Revd Stephen Griffiths I hope you enjoy reading this profile for a House for Duty Team Vicar in the Oakham Team Ministry. We are prayerfully looking for someone to join our ministry team as we serve our group of ten parishes in this lovely part of rural England. The four parishes that make up this House for Duty post are comfortable in their central to low tradition and want their worship to be accessible to the whole community. One of the attractions of this post is the opportunity to serve alongside a ministries that you would like to participate in and explore beyond your supportive and cooperative team of clergy and lay people. The phrase we primary area of responsibility. There is scope to craft a working agreement often use to describe our benefice is ‘ten churches, one family’. There is a around your gifts and interests. growing sense of inter-dependence amongst the parishes. This is In this benefice we hold together and value a wide variety of ministries, demonstrated in our team-wide shared worship, our central administration ranging from the more traditional patterns of worship to innovative office, and finances. We deploy a team of organists and have a united ecumenical services; from civic and military services to ministry to care benefice choir, Laudamus, led by our Director of Music. We have a team of homes; from bereavement support to a youth work apprenticeship scheme. PTO clergy and lay ministers who support ministry across the whole team. We believe this variety strengths and enriches our mission. This is a role for someone who both values the fellowship that comes from working in such a team and can be well organised and efficient as an Another attraction of this post is the opportunity to live in Oakham, Rutland’s individual. popular county town. There is more information about Oakham and the surrounding area in this profile. As you read this profile you will discover that there is much to be celebrated and valued in the existing ministries offered by these four churches. The We have done our best to listen to one another, to our communities and to congregations are keen to build on those strengths. We are praying that God God as we have prepared this profile. This document is the fruit of that. We will provide someone who can help each church develop its distinctive look forward to hearing from all those who sense God’s call to this ministry. ministry and discover new opportunities for engaging with the community. You will find more about who we are on our website www.oakhamteam.uk The parishes are being well served during this vacancy and are in good heart. Informal conversations are encouraged as part of the discernment process Given the rural nature of these villages it’s likely that you will have a good grasp of the joys and challenges of rural ministry, but more importantly that Team Rector Revd Stephen Griffiths 01572 869483 [email protected] you are someone who discerns how the gospel of Jesus Christ can be applied in the contexts in which you serve. Rural Dean of Rutland Revd Canon Jane Baxter 01572 822717 [email protected] As a key member of the Oakham Team Ministry we will value your wisdom as we develop vision and priorities for the whole benefice. There may be Oakham Team Ministry – Team Vicar – Braunston, Brooke, Hambleton & Egleton The Churches of the Oakham Team Ministry St Peter & St Paul Holy Trinity Market Overton St Andrew Teigh Whissendine St Mary Ashwell St Peter & St Paul Langham St Edmund Egleton All Saints Oakham All Saints Braunston St Andrew Hambleton St Peter Brooke Outline of Person Specification Role Description You are likely to be: You will be provided with a comfortable clergy Confident and creative as a leader house in Oakham, with easy access to the town • A person confident in preaching and comfortable leading worship across a spectrum of centre. It is a short drive to each of the villages traditional and informal services. of Braunston, Brooke, Egleton and Hambleton. • Organised and a good manager of time. The core elements of this role are: • Enthusiastic and able to maintain a good work/life balance. • Aware of your own spiritual and training needs and able to support other colleagues. • Being available on Sundays and two days (or • A person whose leadership flows from formation in spiritual wisdom. the equivalent time) per week. • Oversight of the parishes of Braunston, Community-minded Brooke, Egleton and Hambleton (combined • A visible presence and support to the whole community. population of around 700) within the Oakham • A sensitive pastor and ready listener. Team Ministry. • Open to the involvement of children in church life. • Leadership of the four PCCs (with support • Able to offer pastoral care and organise those involved in pastoral care. from the ministry team). • Can sensitively relate mission to context. • Can create partnerships across the parishes. • Being the main point of contact for pastoral • Aware of the value of historic church buildings in mission and ministry. care of these four villages, with additional pastoral support from within the team. Hopeful of growth • Organising Sunday and mid-week services in • A person of spiritual depth with an eagerness to see the church grow. these villages, in collaboration with the wider • Outward facing, helping us respond to the needs of the wider world. team, including the use of team clergy, • Someone who will challenge the status quo. licensed lay ministers and musicians. • A person with a positive vision of what God can do. • Ministry to the whole community through the • Can make mission part of the everyday work of the church. occasional offices and pastoral care. A disciple-maker • Participation in team life including regular shared worship, meetings and training. • A person with the ability to deepen faith through the knowledge of Scripture. • An enabler and encourager who can promote teamwork. • Can identify strengths and weaknesses in church life. • Can identify skills and gifts in people and delegate appropriately. Oakham Team Ministry – Team Vicar – Braunston, Brooke, Hambleton & Egleton Housing 45 Trent Road, Oakham This house has served successfully as a clergy house for over 20 years. It is on a quiet residential road on the edge of town, bordering the countryside. It is within one mile of All Saints Oakham and the town centre. This is a detached four bedroom 1970s property consisting of an entrance hall, dining room, sitting room, study, kitchen and cloakroom with WC. Upstairs there are four bedrooms and a family bathroom. There is an attached single garage, and gardens to the front, side and rear. The windows were replaced in 2012, and a major refurbishment was carried out in 2017, which included refitting the kitchen, refurbishing the bathroom, complete internal redecoration, and renewal of all carpets and floor coverings. Oakham Team Ministry – Team Vicar – Braunston, Brooke, Hambleton & Egleton Living in Oakham The castle, parish church and Rutland County Museum provide an interesting historical backdrop to life in the town. Oakham School is also an important part of town life (established 1584) and a major employer in the area. Leicestershire County Cricket Club occasionally play on their pitch. Rutland’s identity as England’s smallest county continues to shape the ethos and aspirations of the area. Churches Together in Oakham plays an important part in supporting community life, providing a weekly drop in centre and lunch club, Oakham is a pretty, traditional English market town and is the hub of the Foodbank, CAP centre, and mental health support group. A Christian county of Rutland. Charity, St John & St Anne, oversees a variety of sheltered housing and The High Street has a good mix of shops and the Saturday and Wednesday affordable housing options in Oakham and Uppingham. Their St Anne’s markets and monthly Farmers’ Market are popular with locals and visitors. Close site in Oakham is centred around a stunning medieval chapel, which is The usual supermarkets and chain stores are also present in and around the regularly used for worship. town. Throughout the year Oakham hosts a variety of festivals and shows Rutland Water is a very close to Oakham and provides a wide range of such as the Oakham Food and Drink Festival, the Rutland County Show, a leisure activities and opportunities to engage in wildlife and ecology CAMRA Beer Festival and Oakham Music Festival. projects. The Oakham is an attractive place to live surrounding villages of for those wishing to retire to a central, Rutland are popular well connected part of the county as with walkers and those well as those wanting to commute for who enjoy country work and settle down as a family. The pubs. The nearby towns area’s schooling and health provision of Melton Mowbray and score highly in national surveys. Stamford offer an Housing estates on the edge of town additional programme are bringing diversity and a new of music, theatre and demographic range to the town. cinema, whilst Oakham has a very good train service Peterborough and with hourly country wide connections Leicester are large scale at Peterborough, Leicester and centres for shopping Birmingham. and the arts. Oakham Team Ministry – Team Vicar – Braunston, Brooke, Hambleton & Egleton There are 24 houses within the parish with a population of 65 adults, most of whom are middle aged or elderly; there are very few children. Of the dwellings, four are farms.