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The basic role is to:

1. Play the organ and lead the choir for one service each Sunday (11am) and a choir practise each Friday (7.30pm).
2. Cover perhaps as many as ten additional services through the year (For example: Midnight mass, Christmas Day, Ash Wednesday, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Ascension, Corpus Christi, Harvest, All Saints, All Souls)..
3. Appropriately challenge and develop the choir musically.
4. Recruit new and younger choir members.
5. Occasionally working with musicians from other churches on joint services or visits.

The Rector and PCC are keen to develop the music at St Mary’s.  The new organist has scope to develop the role for example by:

1. Establishing a children’s choir.
2. Working with children at the local CofE primary school.
3. Providing more music in the event that further weekly services are added.

There is some flexibility, on a pre-agreed basis, as to how the role is fulfilled.  Sharing the role with an assistant may well be possible.

An honorarium will be paid reflecting the skill and experience of the organist.  For the basic role this could be around £3000 for a good amateur musician.  It could be significantly more for an outstanding candidate working with the more developed role.  Fees for weddings and funerals are currently set at £80.

A Child Protection Policy is in place and CRB checks will be required.
An organist’s contract (including holiday arrangements) is to be agreed and signed.

The church has a recently renovated, three manual, pipe organ.
The choir has up to 20 members covering four parts.

Further Steps:
For more information please contact the Rector.
Candidates should send a letter of application, with a brief CV to the Rector before 31st January 2012.

The Revd Patrick Gerard
Rector of Baddesley Clinton and Lapworth
The Rectory
Church Lane
Lapworth
Solihull    B94 5NX
Tel: 01564 782098
E-mail: patrick@gerard.net