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Current Vacancies in the Diocese

Safeguarding Committee – Lay Member

Key Information Closing date: 12pm, Monday 15 April 2024 Lay Member vacancies (x4) Occasional travel to the Diocesan offices (London,…

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Impact and Learning Officer – Caritas

Key information Closing date: 12pm, Tuesday 2 April 2024 £33,000 per annum Full-time, 35 hours per week Permanent Contract Based…

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Head of Safeguarding

Key information Closing date: 12pm, Thursday 4 April 2024 circa £70,000 per annum Full-time, 35 hours per week Permanent Contract…

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Team Administrator – Parish Support Team

Key information Closing date: 12pm, Tuesday 26 March 2024 £14,560 per annum (£17.50 per hour) Part-time, 16 hours per week…

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Caritas Communications Officer

Key information Closing date: 12pm, Friday 5 April 2024 £35,000 – £37,000 per annum dependent on experience Full-time, 35 hours…

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Communications Officer

Key information Closing date: 12pm, Friday 5 April 2024 £35,000 – £37,000 per annum dependent on experience Full-time, 35 hours…

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Our Diocese Values

Catholic social teaching covers all spheres of life, whether this is economic, political, personal or spiritual. At the heart of Catholic social teaching are principles and the four ethical values of love, truthfulness, justice, and freedom.

As the administrative support function of the diocese, here to serve our parishes, agencies and schools it would be out of step if we did not hold similar values.

We believe that for us to succeed we aspire to be person centered and place human dignity at our centre. We strive to take a holistic approach to the development of our people so that we may better serve the functions of our church.

Our core values are Competence, Reliability, Honesty, Perseverance & Love.

Competence

We strive to achieve total competence in all that we do – as an employer and as the administrative support function to our parishes, agencies and schools we are committed to developing and maintaining our knowledge, our skills and our expertise at the highest level required to benefit those that we serve.

Reliability

Because our parishes, agencies and schools rely upon us to support them in the work that they do, we aspire to deliver with consistency excellence in service. We can be depended upon to deliver on commitments and promises and make the lives of those we support more rewarding.

Honesty

We will act with integrity, truthfulness and straightforwardness at all times. We will challenge when appropriate and act with fairness and transparency at all times. If we make an error, we will own that mistake and can be trusted to make it right. We will be authentic in our passion for the support we provide to our parishes, agencies and schools.

Perseverance

We shall always demonstrate a steady persistence in every course of action – we will be tenacious disciplined and committed. Our collective perseverance speaks to continuing to provide support and service even when faced with difficulties and challenge. We shall be persistent in our pursuit of continuous improvement and excellence and will demonstrate determination, tenacity and integrity in everything that we do.

Love

We will demonstrate our love through the dedication and devotion we extend to all our parishes, agencies and schools. We will consistently act with empathy, understanding and passion – we will value each other and celebrate colleague’s success; we will support, provide care and compassion for those who need it and be relied upon to be competent, reliable & honest.

 

 

 

Equal Opportunities and the Living Wage

The Diocese of Westminster is an Equal Opportunities and accredited Living Wage employer. To be successful, we aspire to be person centred at all times and place human dignity at our centre. We aim at all times to recruit the person who is best suited to the job, and we welcome applications from all communities and underrepresented groups, regardless of race, sexual orientation, disability, faith, age and gender. We guarantee an interview to disabled candidates who meet the minimum criteria. We strive to take a holistic approach to the development of our people so that we may better serve and empower the mission of our Church as ministered by the parishes, deaneries, schools and communities that we support. Our ambition is to work together to promote a more inclusive environment, which attracts all candidates and signals our commitment to celebrating and promoting diversity.

We want people from all walks of life to feel valued for their individuality, thrive in our organisation, share a sense of belonging and demonstrate our values. With this in mind, we positively celebrate Diversity & Inclusion at the Diocese of Westminster and place it at the heart of our aim which is to reflect and connect with the diverse communities that we serve.

Actions we take to provide equality of opportunity for all candidates include:
We anonymise application forms during our shortlisting process to ensure that candidates are assessed without any consideration of their name, gender or background.
As part of this anonymisation, we don’t take into consideration where candidates studied, or the method of that study e.g. full-time, part-time or distance learning.

We apply a consistent approach to our question setting across our applications and interviews to ensure that everyone is assessed against the identified values, competencies and job requirements. Our values are important to us and as such we use a scoring framework that marks candidates based on values, behaviours and competencies.

We provide guidance and brief all our interviewers throughout the selection processes in recruitment best-practice to mitigate against any potential for conscious or unconscious bias or discrimination.

Whenever possible we will have multiple interviewers when assessing each candidate to ensure marking is accurate and fair.

We ensure all our assessment venues are accessible. We offer alternative formats of our application forms to encourage applicants with disabilities or who require reasonable adjustments to perform at their best.

We will work together with candidates with a disability or health condition to implement reasonable adjustments to enable them to feel comfortable and strive during the assessment process.