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Employing Youth and Children's Workers

A Guide for Churches

by Paul Godfrey, Nic Sheppard

  • Paperback
  • 128 pages
  • Publisher: Church House Publishing
  • 14.8 x 21 x 1 cm

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A growing number of churches are now employing someone to work with children and young people.

This short and accessible guide helps churches through the whole process of researching, planning and making an appointment. It also considers how volunteers might be best used and supported.

It helps churches to make appointments which are ‘built on rock’ and to avoid common mistakes which can lead to later problems.

The guide inclues:

Preparation: research, planning, resourcing the work, thinking through what you want a worker to do.
Appointment procedures: job descriptions and contracts, the recruitment and selection process.
Management issues: good management practice, induction and further development.
Further sources of help and advice.

Before his sudden death in 2007, Paul Godfrey was the children’s work adviser for the Anglican Diocese of Chelmsford. Paul previously worked as a children’s evangelist and as a secondary school teacher.

Nic Sheppard is the youth work adviser for the Anglican Diocese of Ripon and Leeds. Nic advises parishes wishing to develop their youth work. He is a Church Army officer.

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  • Author

    Paul Godfrey

  • Book Format

    paperback

  • Publisher

    Church House Publishing

  • Published

    September 2008

  • Weight

    180g

  • Page Count

    128

  • Dimensions

    14.8 x 21 x 1 cm

  • ISBN

    9780715140581

  • ISBN-10

    0715140582

  • Eden Code

    1235455

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    So your Church has reached the point of deciding to employ a Youth Worker? If so, then the very next thing it should do is to work through Paul Godfrey and Nic Sheppard’s guide to both the pitfalls and successes in making this work. Employing Youth and Children’s Workers covers the wide spectrum of activities needed from preparing a job description, working through the recruitment process to looking at longer term development for this key role. The authors draw on their wide experience as youth workers and have also included site addresses for many relevant sources of further information. Many areas are common sense but the guide develops these to give you, your Church and its Youth Worker the best chance of success.

  • TGBS

    The Good Book Stall

    Average rating of0.0

    So your Church has reached the point of deciding to employ a Youth Worker? If so, then the very next thing it should do is to work through Paul Godfrey and Nic Sheppard’s guide to both the pitfalls and successes in making this work. Employing Youth and Children’s Workers covers the wide spectrum of activities needed from preparing a job description, working through the recruitment process to looking at longer term development for this key role. The authors draw on their wide experience as youth workers and have also included site addresses for many relevant sources of further information. Many areas are common sense but the guide develops these to give you, your Church and its Youth Worker the best chance of success.

  • TGBS

    The Good Book Stall

    Average rating of0.0

    So your Church has reached the point of deciding to employ a Youth Worker? If so, then the very next thing it should do is to work through Paul Godfrey and Nic Sheppard’s guide to both the pitfalls and successes in making this work. Employing Youth and Children’s Workers covers the wide spectrum of activities needed from preparing a job description, working through the recruitment process to looking at longer term development for this key role. The authors draw on their wide experience as youth workers and have also included site addresses for many relevant sources of further information. Many areas are common sense but the guide develops these to give you, your Church and its Youth Worker the best chance of success.

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