Volunteer and Peer Mentor Coordinator - Nottingham, United Kingdom - Change Grow Live

Change Grow Live
Change Grow Live
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Nottingham, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Overview:

Change Grow Live are a charity dedicated to the belief that we can make a difference to our Service Users lives, offering support and respect in a safe environment, treating each user as an individual and working with them to find the right treatment and care options.

Our core values are

Our

Volunteer and Peer Mentor Coordinator's here at Change Grow Live play an integral role in ensuring an effective service provision for our service users by creating a focussed culture, engaging staff to provide an innovative and continually improving service and provide leadership, support, and development to a wide range of staff.

We have a new and exciting opportunity for a

Volunteer and Peer Mentor Coordinator to join our

Nottingham Team. As part of our multi-disciplinary team, you will work flexibly and creatively to establish what is needed to have the most positive impact for all who are referred to our service.


Where:
Jigsaw Nottingham City


When:
We are looking to get the right person into the team ASAP


Hours:37.5hrs per week


Salary:
£33,365 - £35,226 dependent on experience


Responsibilities:


About The Role:


  • Working in collaboration with service manager and staff team in order to identify meaningful opportunities for volunteers
  • Creating and supporting a positive culture of volunteering within the service
  • Recruit, train and coordinate volunteers
  • Supporting the welfare and wellbeing of volunteers
  • Managing a volunteer recruitment and support strategy within the service
  • Ensuring that CGL's values are at the heart of everything we all do, through values based decision making and leadership, creating values based culture.
  • Working collaboratively and reflectively with the assigned Regional Volunteering Lead and other servicebased Volunteering Leads across the organisation
  • Developing internal and external links in order to attract volunteers
  • To deliver and assess accredited and regulated training in order to support the development of volunteers; working within the framework of our Awarding Body
  • Training colleagues in how to support and supervise volunteers, providing direct linemanagement supervision when required
  • Support volunteers to follow Change Grow Live policies, procedures and values
  • Investigate and resolve volunteer conduct matters when they arise
  • Leading on service user involvement, facilitating conversations between service users and decision makers within the service
  • Lead on service user involvement, working collaboratively with the team to promote meaningful service user involvement within the service. This includes facilitating the production of regular service user bulletins.
  • Ensure our forums are vibrant and engaging and our service users voice are listened and responded to
  • Coordinate regular service user events within the service working collaboratively with peers.

About you:


  • Have a strong understanding of volunteer support and managment.
  • Be an excellent communicator, both verbal and written with good IT skills
  • Proactive and able to work on own initiative with excellent time management and prioritising skills
  • Have a good working knowledge of volunteer services.
  • Be a supportive team player with strong interpersonal skills with the ability to work in partnership with a wide range of professionals, agencies, and internal/external stakeholders
  • Ability to manage change successfully in a way that prioritises the needs of service users
  • Seek out learning opportunities to improve and broaden your professional knowledge and skills and to contribute and oversee the learning and development of others
  • Educated to degree level or equivalent experience
  • Experience of effective partnership working, relationship management, pathway and protocol development
  • Skills which demonstrate effective communication in a variety of formats to a broad audience

What we will give to you:

  • 25 days holiday (+ bank holidays) rising by 1 day for each years' service
  • Paid 'Wellness' hour each week along with a 'Wellness' hub and Employee Assist Programme
  • Contributory pension scheme
  • A great selection of benefits incl. discounts for shopping, cinema, holidays, etc.
  • A friendly and supportive team
  • Training, career development & progression opportunities
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Please read attached Job Description for a more detailed outline of responsibilities and Person Specification_**If this sounds like you and you'd like to begin your journey with
Change Grow Live, then we'd love to talk to you.

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