This is an external vacancy, please apply directly via the school.

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St Mary’s and St John’s Catholic Primary School is a very successful and welcoming one-form entry school serving the two churches of St John’s and St Mary’s within the Liverpool Archdiocesan parish of St William.

The Governors are seeking an inspirational leader and practising Catholic to guide their pupils, staff, and families in their journey of faith, love, and academic excellence.

Could this be you?

 If you are passionate about making a difference, we encourage you to apply and join the dedicated team.

An opportunity is available for an experienced Parish Administrator (Admin & Finance) to be based at St Gregory’s, Liverpool Road, Lydiate, Liverpool L31 2NA to support St Catherine of Alexandria parish.

The successful candidate will be required to work closely with Father Grant Maddock, the Parish Administrators, the Parish Deacon and Lay Ministers based at Our Lady, St Gregory and St Mary (which comprise the parish of St Catherine of Alexandria).

This is a Fixed term post for 2 years, working 20 hours per week. The salary is £13,857.14 per annum (FTE £24,250.00). 5 weeks holiday plus bank holidays (pro-rata) and pension scheme are available.

The successful candidate will be required to provide high quality support in all aspects of the day-to-day administration and financial tasks to include maintaining parish registers, recording income and expenditure and managing petty cash and updating websites.

Applicants should also have; experience of working in a similar role dealing with a broad range of administrative tasks, excellent verbal and written communication skills, and an ability to work unsupervised. Experience of implementing new administrative processes and knowledge of local parish community would be advantageous.

This is an external advert. Please apply directly via St Joseph's CMAT

The Board of Directors of St Joseph Catholic Multi Academy Trust is looking to appoint a Headteacher to Holy Spirit Catholic Academy from September 2025, to lead this warm and welcoming school in the heart of Netherton.

For more information about Holy Spirit Catholic Academy please visit our website: https://holyspiritcatholicprimary.co.uk/

This is an exciting opportunity to lead a strong Catholic primary academy.  Reporting to the Director of Primary Education, you will focus your leadership skills on both the Catholic life of the school and improving standards of teaching and learning.

For further information, and how you can apply, click below.

This is an external vacancy; please apply via the school.

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Due to the recent retirement of the much loved and highly respected Headteacher, the Governing Body of Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School is seeking to appoint an enthusiastic, inspirational and dedicated individual, to join the school family. They wish to appoint a Headteacher who leads by example, is kind, and reflective and will endeavour to provide the very best for each and all of the children.

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This is an external vacancy please apply directly with the School.

St Michael’s Catholic Primary School is a highly successful, diverse, inclusive and welcoming two form entry school within the Archdiocese of Liverpool.

Due to the forthcoming retirement of our highly respected, successful and much loved Headteacher, Governors are looking to appoint a Headteacher, who is inspirational, enthusiastic and committed to leading our school in the next stage of its development.

Our reputation is strong, and the school community supports the vision and Catholic ethos of the school. This is a wonderful opportunity for a practising Catholic, who is dynamic, forward thinking and who can work in partnership with staff, children, senior leaders, families and governors, to drive and guide St Michael’s on our journey of faith, love and academic excellence. If you are passionate about making a difference, we would encourage you to apply and join our dedicated team.

This is an exciting new role which has been developed to initiate, deliver, coordinate and evaluate the work of the archdiocese relating to social justice and environmental issues working closely with internal colleagues and external stakeholders.

Department for Pastoral Development aims to contribute to the implementation of the new archdiocesan Pastoral Plan, which is the fruit of Synod 2020.

The post holder will work collaboratively with both clergy and lay people. He or she will liaise with individuals and groups within the archdiocesan structures (parishes, deaneries, colleagues in the Central Office, etc.) and outside them (civic and charitable organisations, bodies, and networks).

The principal focus of this role is to co-ordinate the work of the Archdiocese relating to social justice and environmental issues compatible with Catholic Social Teaching and in keeping with Pope Francis’ encyclical ‘Laudato Si’'.

The post sits within the Pastoral Development Department and will ensure that the commitment in the archdiocesan Pastoral Plan for inclusivity, justice and peace, the poor, the marginalised and the environment, is embedded into the mission of the local church.

For an informal discussion about either role please contact Elizabeth Parsons, Director of Pastoral Development on by email at e.parsons@rcaol.org.uk or telephone on 0151 522 1023.

An exciting opportunity to join a supportive and collaborative Finance Department, under the direction of the Head of Finance and the Parish Financial Support Accountant, as a member of the finance team.

The post holder will provide support to the finance team with day-to-day financial processing and reporting, with the opportunity to gain experience across all functions across the Archdiocese and subsidiaries and support budget holders across the organisation with queries and provision of information.

Key Responsibilities of the role include:

Monitoring and escalating communications as appropriate

Transactional processing of Accounting Software including preparation of payments and invoices

Supporting with preparation of various financial management accounts, VAT and statutory returns

Supporting with administrative task and accountants as directed

The role offers an opportunity to study up to AAT Level 4, with entry point dependent on existing qualifications.

Qualification information available here:

Level 2 – https://www.aat.org.uk/apprenticeships/standards/accounts-finance-assistant

Level 3 - https://www.aat.org.uk/apprenticeships/standards/assistant-accountant-v1-2

Level 4 - https://www.aat.org.uk/apprenticeships/standards/professional-accounting-technician

An exciting opportunity to join a supportive and collaborative Finance Department, under the direction of the Head of Finance and the Parish Financial Support Accountant, as a member of the finance team.

The post holder will work as a member of the finance team with responsibility for the production of monthly management accounts and financial information on individual parish centres for use by club management, the Financial Controller, parish priests and the Director of Finance. To assist in the production of annual accounts for amalgamation into the statutory company accounts for archdiocesan subsidiaries (e.g. APCMC).

Key Responsibilities of the role include:

Ensuring parish centre financial information is received and recorded in the financial systems of the relevant subsidiary company on a timely and accurate basis to meet management requirements. Highlighting any points of concern to the financial controller.

To communicate directly with parish centre managers regarding errors and omissions identified in the financial weekly data, producing reports of parish performance for senior management.

Perform monthly bank reconciliation statements for each parish centre ensuring the validity of items and entering receipts and payments are accurately entered into the accounting system.

Producing parish centre accounts and info in the correct format on behalf of the financial controller.

Contribute to the completion of monthly, quarterly, and annual checklists to maintain the validity of the data held in the accounting systems.

To facilitate and review downloads from the back office till system; report any discrepancies to operational staff.

To liaise with other members of the team to ensure that all essential tasks are performed within required timescales in the absence of other staff members.

To organise and undertake the training of Parish Centre Managers on record keeping, completion and submission of financial returns required by the company.

To support the schools capital programme via processing payments for schools, supporting grants from DfE and reconciliation of school project claim forms.

To support with payroll reconciliation and recharges to the accounting system, producing reports and analysis as requested.

Support the finance team with various cost and system improvement projects.

To undertake other general duties or projects.

Under the direction of the Director of Finance. The post holder will have specific responsibility to manage the team of administrators within the Finance Department, providing mentoring support and guidance to support continuous improvements across departments.

The successful post holder will be responsible performance management and allocating general duties for the administrative team. This will include: photocopying, scanning, printing, creating and archiving records, ordering stationery and any other general office duties as necessary. Additionally, to manage all incoming email, post, telephone calls, responding appropriately and in a timely manner. Lastly, managing departmental diaries including scheduling meetings, booking meeting rooms and arranging catering as required, assisting with the preparation and distribution of memos, letters, reports, presentations and any other correspondence as required.

The Office Manager will be responsibly for system development such as maintaining and creating office systems (data management and filing). Effectively developing ways of categorising and prioritising departmental enquiries alongside managing and monitoring the progress of them if needed. Keeping SharePoint Pages up to date with relevant information regarding the finance team. The Office Manager will be in charge of promoting, and recommending improvements to administrative practices. Lastly, procurement of any administrative solutions (new IT capabilities etc).

It is the duty of the Office Manager to support relevant governance structures, prepare and circulate agendas and papers, record and distribute accurate minutes from meetings. The Office Manager will be expected to provide personalised administrative support to the Director or leaders of departments as needed as well as liaising frequently with Trustees, Episcopal Vicars, COO and senior staff. Be able to channel urgent matters and queries to the appropriate persons in the absence of the Director of department and to lead on ad-hoc projects as needed too. This is complimented by being able to undertake tasks such as attend, support and contribute to inhouse and external training programmes to further individual development.

The Office Manager will be a representative of the archdiocese and is expected to act in a professional and appropriate manner and actively promote the ethos of the Archdiocese of Liverpool.

This is an external vacancy, please apply via the school

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The Governors of St Julie’s Catholic High School, Liverpool are seeking to appoint an inspirational, ambitious and innovative Deputy Head Teacher. St Julie’s is a popular and oversubscribed school for girls situated in the conservation area of Woolton Village, South Liverpool. Their Catholic Notre Dame ethos is central to all we do. The new Deputy Head Teacher will work with governors and staff to shape the strategic direction of the school in continuing its positive journey and lead a team which strives together in the best interests of all pupils in line with the Notre Dame values of faith, truth, joy, love, justice and hope following the principles laid down by their founder St Julie Billiart.

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We are seeking a dedicated Safeguarding Administrator to support our safeguarding team in ensuring the safety and well-being of paid workers, volunteers, clergy, and diocesan organisations across the Archdiocese of Liverpool. If so, we would welcome an application from you for the post of Safeguarding Administrator within our COO department.

The successful post holder will be responsible for ensuring compliance with statutory regulations including the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) and promoting best practice in relation to the safeguarding of children and vulnerable adults in the Catholic Church.

The role is part time, 21 hours per week, 5 days per week preferably worked afternoons.

This is an exciting new role which has been developed to support the work of Area 5 of the Pastoral Plan. The post-holder will work closely with colleagues from the parishes, schools and archdiocesan lay staff, in developing routes for the active participation and support of young people in the life of the church and in the service of its communities. To bring vision, energy and experience to develop youth ministry, accompanying young people into a living experience of the Church community.

The key initial priorities of this role are to:

Design and develop various projects and initiatives to enable young people to build positive relationships with the church.

Develop a mechanism for young people to engage in discussions about the future of the church.

Actively develop an archdiocesan strategy for young people.

The ideal candidate will have a background working directly with young people (aged 10-19) and a good knowledge of the Catholic faith.

For an informal discussion about the role, please contact Elizabeth Parsons, Director of Pastoral Development, either by email on e.parsons@rcaol.org.uk or over the phone on 0151 522 1023.