What we offer you
We commit to:
- Match you thoughtfully with pioneers, existing church leaders, district officers and other missional leaders to coach. We give you an overview of the thinker’s current ministry and general hopes for coaching.
- Provide regular coaching development events, to keep all our coaching safe and sharp, which you would be welcome to access free of charge.
- Get in touch twice a year with a coaching survey for all coaches and thinkers to ask how the coaching is going.
- Be available whenever we’re needed – email coaching@methodistchurch.org.uk.
- Pay you promptly upon receipt of your invoices.
What we expect of you
We expect our contracted coaches to:
- Work with the thinkers assigned to you using a coaching approach in order to help them start new Christian communities and/or seek spiritual, missional and numerical church growth in existing churches. We don’t dictate what you cover in each coaching session, but ask that, over the course of the year, this is the overall direction of the coaching.
- Include the dates of coaching sessions, the name(s) of the thinker(s) and the relevant Purchase Order number(s) on your invoices
- Co-ordinate times and dates for coaching sessions in partnership with the thinkers assigned to you. You might meet monthly, every other month, or seasonally, depending on the needs of the thinker(s). The coach shouldn’t be doing all the chasing for dates, however – please tell us if this is an issue.
- Work ethically, adhering to the Core Competencies of the International Coaching Federation or the organisation of which you are a member.
- Have completed safeguarding training to Advanced Level, ideally in The Methodist Church. Report any concerns around safeguarding or the safety or wellbeing of the thinker to a named person agreed between you at the start of the coaching relationship. This is likely to be the Regional Officer for Safeguarding for the thinker’s District.
- Be in coaching supervision: Using a coaching supervisor for roughly 1 hour in every 15 hours of coaching, or once a year. This will be at your own expense. We trust you’ll choose the right frequency according to the number of people you coach.
- Have insurance covering public liability and professional indemnity and malpractice using a suitable coaching, mentoring or business consultancy policy, and showing us evidence of this.
- Have a valid Standard DBS Certificate: This will be at the Coach’s own expense, unless they have a pre-existing certificate with another employer in a suitable role. It is the church’s discretion as to whether this is suitable.