Community Engagement & Activity Worker (Part-Time, FTC)
Home-based (with travel to groups across Cornwall)

Together we can make a real difference

Belonging to the Royal Voluntary Service community means inspiring volunteers to support the nation’s health and wellbeing. It means tackling the most pressing social issues in a workplace full of opportunities.

Through the gift of voluntary service, our volunteers provide much-needed support for over-stretched public services. They work at scale in the NHS, freeing up staff to dedicate more time to patient care and within communities to give practical help and support to people when they need it.

Our people are a welcoming team of individuals from every background who support one another to be their best. They are also some of the country’s most compassionate and dedicated people who step forward to help make society better connected and more inclusive - where everyone can thrive.

We’re currently looking for a Community Engagement & Activity Worker to join us on a part-time, fixed-term contract until the end of March 2022. Though largely home based, travel to deliver support groups will be required.

Your role

As a Community Engagement & Activity Worker, you will establish new volunteer-led and/or co-ordinated groups to support older people through the delivery of our Growth in Social Action strategy.

You will create sustainable activities with direct input from local residents and groups which best support older people in the area.

Specifically, you will:

- Support volunteer leaders in ensuring their activities are compliant, safe and legal
- Inspire local communities to take action to support older people through the delivery of area ‘calls to action’
- Recruit, train, support and enable volunteer leaders to succeed
- Support existing volunteer-led and/or co-ordinated groups that need help or support
- Link local leaders together to build local teams and share best practice
- Create and support volunteer leader ambassadors who support other new volunteer led and/or co-ordinated groups establish
About you

To join us as a Community Engagement & Activity Worker, you will need:

- A proven ability to deliver community development and engagement activities
- Project management skills in a fast-paced development setting
- Excellent communications skills and the ability to build positive working relationships
- A proven ability of successfully working with volunteers
- The ability to inspire, motivate and sustain community action
- A full, valid driving licence

Why you should join our team

We’re proud to be in the top 25 not-for-profit organisations to work for in the UK, based on ratings from Indeed. As a valued employee at Royal Voluntary Service, you will benefit from the following:

- An hourly rate of £13.25 per hour
- The chance to make a positive, lasting impact that changes lives, communities and society
- An employee benefits package that gives access to an exclusive rewards website, 24-hour doctor line, financial support with dental/optical and other therapies
- A free and confidential employee assistance programme with up to six face-to-face sessions built-in
- Opportunities to discuss flexible working
- Access to award-winning e-learning and development
- Opportunities to develop new skills and progress your career
- A great pension scheme
- Enhanced Family Leave schemes
- Six weeks company sick pay
- 25 days’ holiday (pro rata) plus paid statutory Bank Holidays (pro rata)

Applicants should be aware that the post will only be offered to successful candidates subject to pre-employment checks. This may include a criminal record check.

Join Royal Voluntary Service and together we can change lives, change communities and change society.

How to apply

If you think you’d succeed as a Community Engagement & Activity Worker, please select the apply button shown to be brought through to the application process.

The closing date for applications is the 18th October 2021. We reserve the right to close this vacancy early should sufficient applications be received.

This role is part-time working 28 hours per week, on a fixed-term contract until the 31st March 2022.

Here at Royal Voluntary Service, we're committed to equality, diversity and inclusion. We want to be a charity that's representative of the communities we serve, which is why we strive for diversity of age, gender identity, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability, ethnicity and perspective.

We prefer to hire people directly, but we do have a preferred supplier list for when we need a helping hand. We'll be in touch directly if we need you!

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Other organisations may call this role Community Engagement & Development Worker, Community Engagement Co-ordinator, or Community Development Worker.