User Guides
Each user Guide has a direct link from a section within the revised Diocesan Protocols and you can find a list of topics covered in the index below (which provides direct links to the appropriate documents).
Introduction
The User Guides provide short and simple messages about what is essential to properly care for our clergy. The material in the guides generally falls into one of two categories:
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Guidance on what is good practice to be applied across the Diocese. If you can do better than this then that is excellent. If however your local resources are such that it would create great difficulties in applying the guidance, then your approach must be to raise this with your Archdeacon to seek to find a solution
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The manner in which we MUST do certain things. Here there is no scope for doing things differently – but again if there are really insurmountable local problems then these must be raised with the Archdeacon to identify if an equally acceptable solution can be found.
The language used in the User Guides should make it quite clear what is ‘mandatory’ and what is good practice.
UG a very brief guide to a well-run chaplaincy council
UG archdeaconry and deanery synods
UG called to be a churchwarden
UG chaplain accommodation and transport
UG chaplain appointment (coming soon)
UG chaplain appointment flowchart (coming soon)
UG chaplain expenses and leave
UG chaplain general support principles
UG chaplain national insurance UK
UG chaplain new to post checklist
UG chaplain remuneration annual review
UG chaplain security and safety
UG chaplaincies - how they are run
UG chaplaincy constitution guidance
UG chaplaincy vacancy management
UG congregational worship leaders
UG continuing ministerial development