Vicar St John's Leyland

Lambeth Palace Library; Leyland; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A local church in Leyland is seeking a Vicar to lead its congregations and support its vision for community engagement. The ideal candidate should be prayerful, scripturally grounded, and exhibit a mission-focused leadership style. Responsibilities include fostering spiritual growth and engaging in outreach efforts within the community. This full-time post offers an opportunity to lead a dedicated team in a supportive church family, serving diverse needs while celebrating a centenary at the diocesan level.

Qualifications

• Must be deeply prayerful and led by the Holy Spirit.
• Ability to teach Scripture clearly and engagingly.
• Should value all people equally and provide pastoral care.
• Desires to reach the unreached and engage in mission work.
• Exhibiting an empowering leadership style.

Responsibilities

• Lead and support the church in its vision and ministry.
• Engage with three distinctive congregations in worship.
• Foster spiritual growth and community service.

Skills

Prayerful leadership

Scripture teaching

Relational pastoral care

Mission-focused outreach

Empowering leadership style

Job description

The Diocese of Blackburn and CPAS together with the Vicar of St Andrew’s Leyland invite applications for the post of Vicar at St John’s, Leyland

St John’s is a welcoming and friendly evangelical church in the north of Leyland, a town with excellent amenities and transport links in the heart of the Diocese of Blackburn, Lancashire. This is a full‑time post for a single parish benefice, with a dedicated leadership team that includes licensed colleagues, lay and ordained. Prayer and biblical teaching are foundational to everything we do.

Our vision is to:

In our single, mutually supportive church family, we worship as three distinctive congregations (meeting at 10.30am and 4pm on a Sunday and 2pm on a Wednesday), which are united in purpose but serve the needs of people in different circumstances and age groups.

We are praying for a Vicar who is:

• Deeply prayerful and led by the Holy Spirit
• Faithful to Scripture and able to teach it clearly and engagingly
• Relational and pastoral, valuing all people equally
• Mission‑focused, with a heart for reaching the unreached
• Empowering in leadership style

As we look forward to sharing in our diocesan centenary celebrations, ‘All for Jesus’, we are asking God to bring about growth in spiritual depth, in numbers and in service to our local community in this mixed socio‑economic suburban setting.

Is God calling you to come and join us in pursuing this vision? We need someone to lead our willing team and congregations at this exciting time in our parish and diocese, as we discern together what God has for us in this next season.

www.stjohnsleyland.co.uk

For an application pack please visit www.cpas.org.uk/jobs-ministry or contact the CPAS patronage team at [e-mail]

For an informal conversation about the post, contact Revd Hannah Boyd (Area Dean of Leyland) [e-mail]

Closing date for applications: 12noon Thursday 5th February 2026

Informal visit / interviews: 25 / 26 February 2026

As part of our commitment to safer recruitment, this post is subject to enhanced DBS disclosure.