About The Role
St John’s Church is looking for a passionate worship leader to join our inclusive and open community. We are looking for someone who can lead our music during our weekend worship, as well as establish a youth and adult choir. St John’s Church is a vibrant and welcoming church with a growing community of families. We enjoy a range of music during our worship and are looking for someone open to the breadth of musical traditions in the Church of England, both traditional and contemporary.
Purpose of the role
The main aim of our Worship Leader would be to strengthen the musical element of our worship on a Sunday, leading the congregation in songs and hymns. We would also like this role to include establishing a youth choir and an adult choir. The role has the scope to allow creativity in how we grow our provision of music.
Responsibilities
• To lead music at our Sunday services (11:15am each week)
• To establish a youth and adult choir and lead weekly choir practice
• To prepare music each week for services and liaise with the vicar as required
• Organist (preferred) but would consider a pianist/keyboard player
• Proficient singer
• Able to lead worship from a piano/keyboard/organ
• Flexible between traditional and modern musical styles
• Confident working with children
• Able to establish and lead a choir including planning of choir practices
• Open to the inclusive community at St John’s
• DBS Check required
• There is a Genuine Occupational Requirement (GOR) that the post-holder is a practising Christian. Schedule 9 of the Equality Act 2010 applies.
Equal Opportunities
The Diocese of London is committed to creating and sustaining a diverse and inclusive workforce which represents our context and wider community. We are aware that those of Global Majority Heritage/United Kingdom Minority Ethnic (GMH/UKME) and disabled people are currently under-represented among our clergy and workforce, and we particularly encourage applications from those with the relevant skills and experience that will increase this representation.