Discipleship Pastor (Plants and Locations) (Lay or Ordained Associate Vicar) Gas Street Church, Birmingham

Introduction

The Bishop of Birmingham wishes to appoint a lay or ordained Discipleship Pastor (Plants & Locations) to provide spiritual and pastoral oversight for discipleship strategy across Birmingham, St Luke’s Gas Street and associated churches. 

We are looking for someone who can bring particular focus to developing leaders and teams for existing Gas Street locations as well as future plants, revitalisations and other missional activity.

To view the Lay Role Description please click here

To view the Ordained Candidate Brief please click here 

To view the Ordained role description please click here

A Diocesan Profile for this post should be read if you are ordained prior to submitting an application, this is available from the Office & Site Manager to The Bishop of Birmingham, Chris Booth who can be emailed on ChrisB@cofebirmingham.com.

Informal conversations about the role are welcomed please contact Lizzy.Bridgman@gasstreet.church who will arrange this with one of the Gas Street clergy.

Lay Candidates Terms & Conditions

Salary: £35,000 - £41,500 dependent on experience fixed term for up to 4 years subject to funding

Employer: The Parochial Church Council of Birmingham St Luke

A lay appointee may hold the Bishop’s licence, depending on training and experience.

Ordained Candidates Terms & Conditions

A Clergy package will be offered

The post holder will be appointed as an Office Holder under Common Tenure Regulations 2009. 

The role is initially funded for 4 years through national DIP funding. It is hoped that in the future funding will be made available for the post to become permanent. 

Closing date: Sunday (midnight) 31st May 2026

Interviews: To be arranged

The Church of England Birmingham & The Parochial Church Council of St Luke, Birmingham are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. All post holders are expected to share this commitment. All appointments to roles undertaking regulated activity are subject to pre-appointment checks, including a references and a satisfactory Enhanced DBS Check.

We welcome applications from all suitably qualified people, particularly those under-represented including persons of Global Majority Heritage.

The Bishop of Birmingham, looks for priests to serve as incumbents who have the capacity to grow local church in spiritual depth, in numbers, in confident witness, and in serious engagement with their community. Central to this is the task of identifying, encouraging and endorsing the ministry of others and entrusting them with real responsibility in the work of mission and outreach.

The priest appointed to this role must have been ordained in the Church of England or a church in communion with it and must have exercised at least three years ordained ministry. Those applying to be considered must have the right to work in the UK as this vacancy has does not yet qualify to sponsor a visa. The priest appointed will be an office holder under Common Tenure, and the Ecclesiastical Offices (Terms of Service) Regulations will apply.

It is important that the priest appointed plays a full part in the life of the deanery, particularly Chapter and Synod, and in the wider programmes of the Diocese. Opportunities for ecumenical collaboration should also be pursued, and good relationships sought with other faith communities.