Placements

Placements have changed in the new programme therefore please check which set of placements will be part of your training. Your learning agreement will specify the titles and numbers of your placements.

Level One Placements

• P101 Home Church Reflection

  This placement is for Ordinands (including OLMs) and Methodist Foundation Students only.

  This placement is carried out throughout the year and involves theologically reflecting on a number of areas of your home church. The elements of the placement are related to four of the first year weekends. See especially the following pages which are more up to date:

  • R2 Listening to the Local Church,
  • R3 Worship in the Local Church,
  • R5 The Local Church in the community and
  • R6 Pastoral Care in the Local Church.

• P102 Vocational Placement

  This Placement is for Methodist Foundation Students only.

  This placement places the student in a church in a different circuit and gives them the opportunity to observe various types of ministry and try different ministerial roles to help them discern their own vocational calling.

• P103 Reader Placement

  This Placement is for Reader in Training Students only.

  Students are sent for about eight weeks to a church which is different from their own. They undertake a variety of Reader tasks and observe the ministry of others

• P104 Hospital Placement

  This Placement is open to any ministerial student. It is an additional placement to the set placements

  Students have the chance to engage with the work of a hospital chaplaincy or team and have some training in hospital visiting as well ass spending time on the wards.

Level Two Placements

• P201 Ministerial Placement

  This placement is for Ordinands (including OLMs) only.

  This placement usually in the Autumn Term of the second year involves 8 weeks in a church significantly fdifferent from your own. Students are expected to carry out a range of ministerial activities and reflect on their own strengths and weaknesses and future ministry.

• P202 Social Placement

  This Placement is for ordinands (including OLMS) only.

  This placement usually carried out in the third year involves an experience of an unfamiliar and uncomfortable environment enabling you to reflect on your own theology of work and leisure and consider how God is present and understood in the world.

• P203 Hospital Placement

  This Placement is open to ordinands. It is an additional placement to the set placements

  Students have the chance to engage with the work of a hospital chaplaincy or team and have some training in hospital visiting as well ass spending time on the wards. Ordinands may undertake this module either at level one or level two

• Year One: P1 Home Church Investigation

  This involves taking a step back from the church in which a student worships, and asking searching questions about its models of mission and ministry.
  

• Year Two: P2 Social Placement

  This placement takes students into a secular environment with which they are unfamiliar, in order to test out their personal preconceptions and theological assumptions
  

• Year Three: P3 Ministerial Placement

  Students are sent for about six weeks to a church which is as different as possible from their own. They undertake a variety of ministerial tasks and observe the ministry of others