Assistant Children’s and Youth Worker – Ascension Church Southampton

Job profile:

Title: Assistant Children’s and Youth Worker

Reports to: Lead Children’s and Youth Worker

Hours: 22.5 hours per week, to be worked flexibly but to include Sunday mornings, Wednesday afternoons and Monday and Thursday evenings.

Salary: £25,654 pro rata based on 37.5 hours per week FTE – (actual pay £15,392 p.a)

Annual Leave: 25 days per year (pro rata) plus statutory bank holidays (pro rata)

Special conditions: There is a genuine occupational requirement that the post holder be a committed, practising Christian and sympathetic to the aims and objectives of the Church of England.

This post is subject to an enhanced DBS disclosure

Ascension is a growing church family in the east of Southampton, serving the parish of Bitterne Park, with a population of around 15,000 people. Their vision is to see God’s kingdom come through making and growing whole-life followers of Jesus. Investing in the rising generation is central to that vision.

As a church community, they are passionate about helping children and young people encounter the living Jesus, grow as his disciples, and discover their identity and calling in Christ. They are seeking someone who shares that passion and will bring faith, creativity, initiative and a pioneering spirit to help shape and grow this ministry.

This is an opportunity for someone who sees the unique potential in each child or young person through the eyes of Christ to help support this ministry. Ascension are looking for a creative and pastoral self-starter who can work alongside their Lead Children’s and Youth Worker to recognise opportunities, develop new ideas and create welcoming, engaging environments where children and young people can belong, explore faith and flourish.

Core Responsibilities:

• To be proactive in working to reach local children and young people with the love of Jesus to see them come to faith in Christ
• To disciple children and young people to become mature followers of Christ, equipping them to be disciples who disciple others, and helping them to experience wellbeing, wholeness, and healing in a fun, safe, and welcoming environment
• To help inspire the children and young people in the community to live fully and courageously the adventure that Jesus is calling them into
• To guard and grow your own relationship with Christ, including the disciplines of daily prayer and Bible study
• To assist in leading and enabling other members of the church to engage practically in mission to and discipleship of young people
• To assist in the running of the Children’s and Youth programmes on Sundays
• To assist in running the Monday Night, Wednesday afternoon and Thursday Night Youth Groups
• To take a supporting role in working with the local schools both in teaching, mission, and discipleship, building on current relationships and expanding the work done here
• To help to work towards becoming an increasingly inter-generational church, including resourcing parents and wider church family in the spiritual nurture of children and young people
• To help support and develop Ascension’s youth worship ministry
• To advocate for children and youth, taking opportunities to teach, challenge and encourage the whole church
• To help in developing Ascension’s work with young people across the whole of the parish
• To help at any weeks, weekends away or events the church attends with their children or youth
• To help in the administration of the various aspects of Ascension’s children and youth programmes, such as rotas, planning, and content
• To help maintain the highest standards of safeguarding procedure across the full breadth of children and youth ministries at Ascension
• To carry out other duties commensurate with the role

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