Church Assistant 2026/27 (12-month FTC)

Job title: Church Assistant

Contract: 12-month fixed contract (17 August 2026 - 9 August 2027)

Salary: £23,132.20 (with subsidised housing in the parish)

Hours: 35 hours/week (including early mornings, weekends, and evenings)

Annual leave: 25 days + bank holidays

DBS check: Basic

Visa sponsorship: Not available

Role Summary

As a Church Assistant, you are essential to the work of All Souls, you provide practical support to the parish: you facilitate and enable a wide range of ministry events and help keep our buildings ready for ministry. Although the majority of the work is practical, each week you also spend time participating in staff planning meetings, exploring a ministry of your choice and receiving theological training. You work in shifts and live together in shared accommodation. You will be in a team of five.

You will

Facilitate, support and enable church events

Help maintain, clean and tidy parish buildings and facilities

Spend a year in community worshipping at All Souls, exploring church ministry and deepening your Christian faith

Person Specification

We are looking for someone who

Is a committed Christian in sympathy with the evangelical stance and mission of All Souls

Is a hard worker with a servant heart

Is prepared to undertake a wide range of physically demanding work

Has a desire to grow an understanding of the Bible and develop as a disciple

Will contribute to the shared life of the All Souls staff team and church

Has excellent interpersonal skills and is able to communicate effectively

Has excellent organisational skills and initiative

Has the ability to handle pressured situations with tact and wisdom

Is flexible and a team player

Is able to work sensitively with a multicultural staff team and church family

Can maintain professional relationships with colleagues and church family

* Will bring their own Christian experiences and background (local or global) to help support a diverse and international congregation

Church Assistant Job Description

Applications

Closing date: Monday, 25th May at 23.59

Interviews: From 1st June

All Souls Today

In the centre of London’s West End, All Souls Langham Place is a conservative, Anglican evangelical church. At the heart of all we do as a church is our desire to be ‘All for Jesus!’

We are deeply grateful for a diverse and international church family, a rich heritage and an exciting location and seek to use all God has given us in the extension of Christ’s Kingdom. We recognise that we are only a small part of God’s worldwide Church, so we aspire to a generosity and graciousness in our fellowship with other Churches while submitting ourselves to the authority of God’s unchanging Word.

We believe that Jesus is for all and we long to be all for Jesus.

To find out more about our vision and values please visit allsouls.org/vision

The All Souls Church family is diverse as the global body of Christ is diverse and as London is diverse. Applications are welcome from people from ethnic groups which are a minority in the UK.

There is an occupational requirement that the job-holder is a Christian under Part 1 of Schedule 9 to the Equality Act 2010.

Contact

Please email recruitment@allsouls.org if you have any queries!