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Team Vicar, Wigan North West

Vacancy Reference cofe/TP/61196/10097

Number of Positions:
1
Contract Type:
Office Holder
Salary/Stipend:
£34,950pa
Location:
Wigan
Closing Date:
10/05/2026
Vacancy Category:
Clergy: Incumbent / Priest in Charge
Business Unit:
Diocese of Liverpool
Organizational Unit:
Benefice

Introduction

Team Vicar, Parish of Wigan North West

We invite you to consider joining the Church Wigan team as the senior leader of Wigan North West, a large parish hub of three churches serving the diverse communities of Pemberton, Norley Hall, Kitt Green, Marsh Green and Orrell. These range from town centre and urban estate to semi-rural village.


We seek an ordained relational leader who can:

  • draw alongside parishioners, connect with them, and lead them into a hopeful future in Christ.
  • build on a foundation of emerging unity in a diverse parish.
  • encourage the promising green shoots of deepening discipleship and community mission.

This is a full-time stipendiary appointment as Team Vicar in the Wigan Team Ministry, with housing provided in St John’s Vicarage, 2a Shelley Drive WN5 8HW

Interview Date:   TBC

For more information please contact: 

Ven Simon Fisher, Archdeacon of St Helens & Warrington 

mob: 07525617067 or email: simon.fisher@liverpool.anglican.org.uk 


or Canon Neil Cook, Team Rector 

mob: 07733296850 or email neil.cook@churchwigan.org


We are continuing our work to actively increase the diversity of those working in the diocese and in pursuit of that we are using anonymous shortlisting. 

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