

The HR Team supports Common Tenure arrangements for clergy, centrally employed diocesan staff and employment matters such as wellbeing.
They are also available to advise incumbents and PCCs on employment and volunteer issues including safer recruitment including DBS processes, people management, and on issues such as GDPR and Health and Safety
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Fact sheets for PCCs
Our series of Human Resources information and guidance contains top tips for PCCs to help you navigate employment-related issues and FAQs. We hope this resource will help you build confidence in managing what can sometimes be tricky employment scenarios.
MS Word draft policy and form templates are available which you can edit for your own use.
What’s in the toolkit
Fact sheets
- Recruitment advice for PCCs
- Employment status
- Employing a person who is a Christian
- Performance and capability issues
- Calculating annual leave
- Managing sickness
- Managing redundancies
- Managing grievances and complaints
- Managing disciplinary issues
- PCC FAQs
Draft policy and form templates
- Checklist for Employment Contract
- Employment Policy and Practice
- Job Description
- Person Specification
- Draft PCC minute – agreement to employ
- Capability and Performance Policy, and Appeal Process
- Appraisal Form
- Annual Leave
- Sickness and absence policy
- Self-certification form
- Redundancy Policy
- Grievance Policy