Work Experience opportunities required

Linking Lives Aldridge Project Co-ordinator vacancy - maternity cover

• The befriending service using the ‘Linking Lives UK’ model
• The weekly ‘Place of Welcome’ on a Monday morning
• Set up a ‘Holiday at Home’ scheme

• developing links and working effectively and collaboratively with statutory agencies, voluntary organisations & local GP surgeries to ensure suitable referrals are maintained and the scheme is meeting identified needs
• recruiting, training and overseeing volunteers
• assessing the needs, abilities and requirements of referrals and identifying the most appropriate befriender for them to be paired with
• ensuring compliance with all policies and procedures, including safeguarding and data protection

International Coffee Shop Convention

Living the Wesleyan Way - online course

An online course with Paul W Chilcote

What guidance for life can we find in the spiritual heritage gifted to us by John and Charles Wesley? This four-week course helps participants recapture the Wesleys’ vision of abundant life through an exploration of their theology and spirituality, paying particular attention to the holistic nature of this vision—a “both/and” approach holding faith and life together. This course, taught by Paul Wesley Chilcote—a Methodist theologian and Director of the Centre for Global Wesleyan Theology at Wesley House, Cambridge—is based on the four major themes in his book, Recapturing the Wesleys’ Vision. Topics include: • The Message – orienting life around grace and love • The Community – embodying faith in a beloved family • The Discipline – rediscovering tested spiritual practices • The Servanthood – realizing a love that flourishes through service     STRUCTURE Four 90 minute Zoom classes on 2pm (UK time) on Thursdays from 9 September to 30 Sept 2021. Recapturing the Wesleys’ Vision is required reading. Participants will be given access to an electronic copy from registration for the duration of the course. The course entails approximately 2 ½ hours of reading and study outside class time A Certificate of Participation is available for those who complete a brief summative project/reflection (2000 words)     Places are £120 each or £100 if you sign up before 30th July 2021.     Book now     PAUL W CHILCOTE is currently serving in retirement as Director of the Centre for Global Wesleyan Theology at Wesley House, Cambridge. An award-winning author and retired Methodist historian and theologian, he is the author or editor of nearly thirty books in the areas of Wesleyan theology, spirituality, and Christian discipleship and mission. His years of missionary service in Africa continue to shape his life and ministry. He has been a Benedictine oblate of Mt. Angel Abbey for nearly twenty-five years. He and his wife, Janet, a retired United Methodist pastor, have five daughters and seven grandchildren.   Book now         If you missed our first centenary event, For the World, last week you can view the recordings here: www.wesleyhouse100.com/centenary-events Constitutional Democracy - a Global Christian Imperative Jonathan Chaplin Public Theology for a New Normal - Global Perspectives Sef Carroll, World Council of Churches (Geneva, Switzerland) Dion Forster, Stellenbosch University (South Africa) Mike McCurry, Wesley Theological Seminary (Washington DC, USA) Global Methodist Perspectives on Climate Change James Bhagwan, Pacific Conference of Churches (Suva, Fiji) Mark Davies, Oklahoma City University (USA) Mollie Pugmire, Methodist Church in Britain Maaraidzo Mutambara, Africa University (Mutare, Zimbabwe)       Future Centenary events Leading Like a Methodist 15-16 October 2021 Wesley to the World 29-30 April 2022 The Spirit that Crosses Borders 3-5- June 2022 Open House and Garden Party 1-2 July 2022   Register for future centenary events

Assistant Safeguarding Officer post - readvertised

Wolverhampton & Shrewsbury and Birmingham Methodist Districts
 
The Methodist Church is committed to ensuring its churches are safe spaces for all. We work hard to ensure compliance with legal requirements, develop good practice, provide effective training and give professional advice on individual cases.  We have an exciting opportunity to join our team and take forward this work which will include implementing recommendations from the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA). The post holder will work alongside the District Safeguarding Officer for both districts.
 
Do you have extensive experience of safeguarding?
Do you have Training and Quality Assurance skills and Experience?
Are you able to work flexibly and independently?
Are you open to working in the faith sector?
If so, this post may be for you.

• Salary £29K full time equivalent. (£16 per hour)
• 20 Hours per week, with flexibility including evenings, and occasional weekends
• Home based
• Travel required across both Districts

Full details are available on request from admin@wsmethodist.org.uk.
 
Please return the application to admin@wsmethodist.org.uk.
 
Closing date and time for applications: 17:00 Sunday 25^th July 2021
Interviews will be held on Thursday 12th August 2021.
These will take place at Walsall Methodist Central Hall.
Post subject to satisfactory references and an enhanced DBS check.

Methodist Church Wellbeing Resources

I’m taking this opportunity to remind and highlight that The Methodist Church website has information and resources on wellbeing. Wellbeing (methodist.org.uk)
 
What is Wellbeing:
https://www.methodist.org.uk/for-churches/guidance-for-churches/wellbeing/what-is-wellbeing/
 
Wellbeing: the five key elements:
https://www.methodist.org.uk/for-churches/guidance-for-churches/wellbeing/the-five-key-elements/
 
Wellbeing toolkit
https://www.methodist.org.uk/for-churches/guidance-for-churches/wellbeing/wellbeing-toolkit/
 
Positive working together:
https://www.methodist.org.uk/for-churches/guidance-for-churches/wellbeing/positive-working-together/
 
Ministers with ill health:
https://www.methodist.org.uk/for-churches/guidance-for-churches/wellbeing/ministers-with-ill-health/
 
Further advice and information:
https://www.methodist.org.uk/for-churches/guidance-for-churches/wellbeing/further-advice-and-information/
 
 
Specifically I would like to draw you attention to  Positive Working Together.   [1]
This is a training resource that the Learning Network can provide across the region.
Within the church we believe that everyone should be enabled to flourish, to become the people whom God created them to be. Promoting positive working relationships is a key part of enabling individuals and communities to flourish.
Starting from a distinctively Christian standpoint creates an opportunity for individuals associated with the Church to behave in a manner which models the very highest standards of human interaction and relationships. On an everyday basis high standards of behaviour require attention to how individuals communicate with each other, how people are treated, how information is managed and shared and how difference is understood and embraced.
Positive Working Together encourages us to reflect on the importance of the way in which we engage and interact with each other within the life of the church and the wider community.
A key focus of the work is to provide a range of resources that enable leaders, lay and ordained, to be more resilient and better equipped in engaging with and responding positively to situations of transition, change and conflict, and preventing bullying and harassment so that we can model positive working together in the life of the church and wider community.
Positive Working Together is the job of everybody in the Church and the resources found on these pages aim to help everybody play their part.
Further information about having this training in your circuit can be obtained from the Learning Network.
Best Wishes
Geoff
Geoff Bond | Regional Learning & Development Coordinator - LN West Midlands 
The Connexional Team
07799 900486 [Mobile]



 

Holiday Club Resources

District Children's Support Fund

The funding allocated specifically to the support of children and families in the District - particularly those experiencing some form of deprivation - is still open to accept applications at the moment.  Are there projects you might consider which could offer support even during the lockdown?