Learning Disability Alliance Scotland

CoordinatorApplication Form

People with learning disabilities will be part of the shortlisting and interview process. Some of them may need help reading complicated words. You may choose to complete and submit this written application form and we will make sure they understand fully what you have said. Or you can choose to record your answers on to a short mobile phone video and upload it to our WeTransfer Plus account (ldas.wetransfer.com) which will be easier for everyone to understand directly. We will treat both forms of submission equally.

Name

Address:

Phone:

Email:

Any other contact details or special communication requirements.

Please tell us about what you are currently occupied doing and the opportunity you pursued prior to it: (e.g. Working, volunteering, studying, caring etc.)

Please tell us about your level of education and any qualifications that you hold.

Are you legally eligible for employment in the UK YES NO

Do you have proof of eligibility to work in the UK? YES NO

Note: To comply with the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006if you are invited to attend an interview, you must bring with you proof of your entitlement to work in the UK, i.e. UK passport, national passport / ID card for an EEA country or Switzerland etc. (see enclosed for further information). No offer of employment will be made unless such evidence is seen.

Please read the Person Specification. This helps us know if you can do the job. Please give us an example of how you meet each of the essential requirements for the post. You can write as much or as little as you want but please write something under each point. We are interested in evidence how you have met that criteria

  1. An understanding about the opportunities and challenges that people with a learning disability can have in their lives.
  1. Good knowledge of support and services for people with learning disabilities.
  1. Good practical experience of campaigning with groups of people
  1. Good experience in delivering participative training sessions
  1. You must be good at listening to people and helping them to say what they think and want.
  1. You must be able to use plain words, pictures, tapes and other ways to make things easier to understand.
  1. High level of ability to plan, analyse and think through issues and problems
  1. Understanding or experience of Board Members of voluntary organisations
  1. Ability to work under own initiative as well as work as part of a team
  1. A good range of computer skills
  1. Good sense of humour, imagination and vision of desirable change in the world

Please tell us which of these desirable elements you meet.

Car owner/driver

Able to stay away from home overnight

Experience of advocacy or self-advocacy with people with learning difficulties

Qualification in Social Work, Nursing or Community Education

REFERENCES

Can you give us the name and contact details of 2 people who know you and can tell us a bit about you? One of these should be your current employer.

Name Name

AddressAddress

Phone Phone

Email Email

Your relationship to this personYour relationship to this person

Have you had a successful PVG check recently?

Please return to or LDAS, Second Floor, Thorn House, 5 Rose Street, Edinburgh, EH2 2PR as soon as possible.

The closing date for this opportunity is Monday August 1st 2016 at 5pm and interviews will be held on Wednesday 17th August 2016 in Edinburgh.

If you are invited to interview we will ask you to prepare a short presentation and a single sheet Easy Read Briefing. More details on these will be provided with notice of the decision to invite you to interview.