Church Caretaker
- Part time
- £26,208 pro-rata
- On site: Fairmilehead Parish Church Edinburgh
- Closing 19th July 2025
- Advertised from 9th June 2025
- £16,707.60 per annum. 25.5 hours per week. (0.64 FTE)
Role
Fairmilehead Parish Church is seeking a dedicated and reliable Church Caretaker to ensure the cleanliness, maintenance, and overall smooth operation of our church centre. The ideal candidate will possess strong organisational skills, a proactive attitude, and a commitment to supporting the church’s mission by maintaining a welcoming and safe environment for all members and visitors.
Key Responsibilities:
- Welcoming hall users and setting up halls when required.
- Church Centre Maintenance: Perform occasional maintenance tasks, including minor repairs of painting and clearing of storage facilities, ensuring all church facilities and equipment are in good working order.
- Cleaning: Maintain daily the cleanliness of all church areas, including the sanctuary, offices, toilets, kitchen, and common areas. Duties include sweeping, mopping, vacuuming, dusting, and recycling.
- Groundskeeping: Maintain a small area of the church grounds within the church centre - removal of weeds and raking leaves. In winter, maintenance involves snow removal and gritting of pathways. Ensure walkways and parking areas are safe and clear of debris year round.
- Funeral/ Wedding Event Setup and Support: Assist with the setup, and clearing for church services, events, and special activities.
- Security: Open and close the church buildings for services and events. Monitor and ensure the security of the premises, including locking doors and windows.
- Inventory and Supplies: Liaise with church office the cleaning and maintenance supplies.
- Outside Contractors: Liaise with workmen/women as and when required.
- Coordination: Work closely with church members/ volunteers offering help to regular and occasional visitors.
Qualifications:
- Proven experience in a maintenance or custodial role, preferably in a church or similar setting.
- Basic knowledge of general repair skills.
- Ability to operate cleaning equipment and tools.
- Strong organisational and time-management skills.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
- Physical stamina and ability to lift heavy objects and perform physically demanding tasks.
- Desirable: ability to work occasional additional hours.
Working Conditions:
- The position requires physical activity, including lifting, bending, and standing for extended periods.
- Work is indoors but involves outdoors work in winter for path clearing,and occasional weeding in summer.
- The Church caretaker must be able to respond to emergency maintenance issues liaising with the church Property Team.
- The Church caretaker is entitled to six weeks annual leave. Approximately two of these are taken over the Christmas and festive period and two at the beginning of July each year when our centre closes. The church centre is also closed on Easter Monday. Working Days Monday - Thursday
Working Hours
Monday 4:45 pm-9:15pm
Tuesday 2:45pm -10pm
Wednesday 2:45pm-8:15pm
Thursday 1:45pm - 9:00pm
Job Share will be considered.
Reports To: Line Manager, Personnel Committee at Fairmilehead Parish Church.
Application notes
Interested candidates should submit a cover letter detailing their relevant experience and qualifications to Mrs Fiona Bonar at personnelcommitteefhpc@gmail.com by19th July . It is hoped the successful candidate will begin work mid to late August 2025.
Fairmilehead Parish Church is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes candidates from all backgrounds to apply.
Note: This job description is intended to provide a general overview of the position and is not exhaustive. Responsibilities and qualifications may be adjusted based on the needs of the church.
The successful applicant will be required to complete a basic disclosure check in line with Church of Scotland safeguarding requirements. An offer of employment will then be made on receipt of a basic disclosure certificate. Details of how to apply for the check will be provided by the Church.
Overview
The Diocese of Edinburgh is looking for a Finance and Support Officer to join our small administrative team supporting the Bishop to deliver a range of services for the Diocese.
About Us
The Diocese of Edinburgh is one of 7 dioceses which form the structure of the Scottish Episcopal Church, part of the worldwide Anglican Communion. Each Diocese is run by a Diocesan Bishop who oversees the spiritual and practical concerns of all the clergy and lay (non-ordained) people within their own diocese. The Diocese of Edinburgh covers the City of Edinburgh, the Lothians and stretches from the Firth of Forth down to the English border.
The Diocesan Office supports the Bishop of Edinburgh in the delivery of the priorities of the Diocese. It is accountable for the management and delivery of a range of services for the Diocese, particularly mission and ministry, governance, finance, buildings and communications.
The new role of Diocesan Office Finance and Support Officer has been created to re-align the workflows of the office and increase the efficiency of the small administrative team. There is a friendly culture of sharing and collaboration amongst the staff, along with the diocese’s commitment to both personal and professional development for all staff.
About the Role
• Finance: to maintain accurate and up to date records of income and expenditure through monthly bookkeeping and reconciliation. Process payroll payments for Diocesan Office staff and the external clergy & staff within our payroll service. Assist with the production of annual diocesan budgets.
• Office management: to ensure that services needed to support the smooth-running of the Diocesan Office are met, in relation to facilities contracts, minor maintenance, and procurement of office supplies. Act as front-line triage for IT and associated equipment and to monitor tickets raised with our third-party support providers. Assist with budgeting and procurement of IT hardware & software. Ensure IT licences, office certificates (e.g. PAT Testing) and other relevant health and safety requirements are maintained.
• Vestry, Clergy & general external support: primary point of contact for general queries from Clergy, Vestry Secretaries, Treasurers, and to redirect external calls/emails as appropriate.
• Administration: to develop, maintain and undertake processes and records management to support the functioning of the office and staff, including database
management, Canon 35 (buildings consent) process, organising meetings, writing reports, creating online resources and event organisation.
• Clergy administration: to provide administrative support to the processes relating to the life cycle of clergy tenure including licence documentation and services of institution/installation/collation. Support the administrative processes of clergy vacancies and Dean’s Visitations
• Committee servicing: to take minutes of committee and other meetings held. To maintain membership info, issuing agendas and papers etc.
• Provide cover across other admin roles as required.
About You
The essential qualifications and characteristics are:
• Knowledge of bookkeeping and basic accounting practices, and an ability to use an accounting package.
• Experience of using MS Office 365 (Word, Excel and Outlook).
• Experience of/or aptitude for use of MS Teams, MS Access, Adobe Acrobat Pro and Canva.
• At least two years’ experience of administrative roles, including servicing meetings and taking minutes.
• Able to handle confidential materials with confidence and sensitivity, and communicate effectively by email, phone and in person with a range of people from varied backgrounds.
• Able to handle many different tasks within a range of timelines and priorities, and sometimes with competing deadlines.
• Able to work collaboratively as part of a small team, sharing tasks and being flexible in order to get the highest priority tasks completed.
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This part-time role is ideal for someone with strong organisational and financial skills who is looking for a move to the Charity sector. Reporting to the Chief Financial Officer, the Finance Assistant will be responsible for a range of day-to-day financial duties in relation to the General Synod of the Scottish Episcopal Church and the Scottish Episcopal Church Pension Fund as well as support to the Finance Officer in the overall operation of the General Synod Office Finance Department and to the Pensions and Retirement Officer in the operation of the Church’s Pension Fund. The role is key to ensuring the effective delivery of the team’s activities and maintaining robust operational systems.
The appointment is permanent and part-time, for 21 hours per week.
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The Scottish Episcopal Church (SEC) is a diverse church in the liturgical tradition, with approximately 300 congregations across Scotland. We are part of the Worldwide Anglican Communion. The General Synod of the Scottish Episcopal Church is a registered charity serving the Church at national (or ‘provincial’) level. The General Synod Office, with a staff complement of c.30, supports dioceses (regions), congregations, clergy and laity across Scotland and facilitates the governance of the Church.
The Free Church of Scotland is recruiting for a Finance Manager. The current Finance Manager is moving to a new role at the beginning of September.
We are looking for an enthusiastic and capable person who will:
- provide accurate and timely financial reporting for the denomination,
- advise budget holders and senior stakeholders on all financial related matters,
- have oversight of a small finance team and
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There is an Occupational Requirement under the Equality Act 2010 for the post holder to be a committed Christian. As such, the successful candidate will be a Christian with an active commitment in a local church congregation, who is supportive of the values, aims and ethos of the Free Church of Scotland.
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The role will oversee the operations of the coffee shop and the roasters ensuring we deliver a quality service to customers and excellent support to our volunteers and participants. The Manager will be responsible for ensuring Glesga Roasters remains financially viable, but more importantly, remains focussed on the vision and mission of the ministry and of the church.
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