Community Engagement Co-ordinator
Responsible to: Community and Volunteer Manager
Salary: £22,500 - £24,500 pro rata
Hours: 28 hours a week
Based: The Disability Action & Advice Centre 4 Waldegrave Road Teddington TW11 8HT - Flexible hybrid working with some community outreach
As part of our mission, we deliver accessible and inclusive community group activities and volunteer-based services for disabled residents. Our ambition is to enrich people’s lives, help with their mental health challenges and reduce their isolation and loneliness. We have broadened our community remit to also identify, advise and support residents living with health inequalities in the Borough of Richmond as an NHS South West London Integrated Care Board Core20Plus5 Partner. The localities of focus will be Whitton/Heathfield, Hampton North, Barnes North, Mortlake and Ham & Petersham. These localities are also where Ruils has lower levels of volunteer engagement and consequently community service provision.
Main duties of the Community Engagement Co-ordinator include:
- working with the Community and Volunteer Manager to deliver our Community Independent Living Services (CILS)
- supporting Ruils’ Group Activities, Befriending, Active from Home Walks
- supporting with the recruitment and management of Ruils Volunteers
- helping to manage our Core20Plus5 initiative to target resident engagement with community organisations in areas where this is identified as being low
- helping to establish the reasons for engagement and draw up a plan for improved local engagement
- increasing befriending and Active from Home client matches
- establishing a trusted reach-out path for the currently dis-engaged residents at our Health and Wellbeing events
Read and download the full Job Description and Person Specification here.
Special Requirements:
Flexibility to work outside of normal office hours on occasion. Ability to work remotely or online for a period of time, with strong IT skills.
We actively encourage applications from disabled people and people with long term health and mental conditions.
We operate a Guaranteed Interview Scheme in that we will guarantee an interview to all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the post. Please state in a cover letter if you wish us to consider you for this guaranteed interview scheme.
Please apply in writing with a cover letter to Viv Sage our HR Consultant at Better Talent. Viv Sage viv@bettertalent.co.uk
FriendBee Befriender
Friendbee is a SEND Befriending Service that matches young people with a paid Befriender to help them access social and leisure activities. We currently support young people up to the age of 25 that have a Special Education Need or Disability (SEND) that impacts their social life, who also live in the London Borough of Richmond or Royal Borough of Kingston.
Our Befrienders are recruited, trained, vetted and employed by Ruils to make finding the right support easier for families. Our service is designed to make long-term and sustainable matches between families and Befrienders. While we help coordinate matches and manage the employment of Befrienders, parents work directly with Befrienders to establish a schedule for sessions.
This is supplemental and part-time work that should accompany another job or studies. We cannot guarantee set hours, although most Befrienders work 2-4 hours per week on average. Minimum rate per hour is the London Living Wage - £11.95.
To be eligible for this position you must:
- Live or work within London Borough of Richmond or Royal Borough of Kingston-Upon-Thames
- Be 18 years of age
- Have experience working with children in either a paid or voluntary capacity
- Have the right to work in the UK
- Be able to commit to the Befriending role for minimum of 1 year
Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis and interviews will be set up individually. For more information and to apply visit www.friendbee.co.uk
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