Job Description
Job Title:Co-ordinator Enrych Swindon and Wiltshire
Office location: Home worker
Geographical remit:Swindon area
Salary:£19,742 - £21,918 full time (£9,025 - £10,020 pro rata) Dependent on experience
Hours of work:16 hours per week, flexible working available
Responsible to:Heather Smith, Chair of Enrych Swindon and Wiltshire
Responsible for:Members and Volunteers
About Enrych
Enrych is a well-established charity with a 30 year history of enabling disabled adults to enjoy culture, leisure and learning opportunities. Our vision is enabling adults with a disability to recognise their potential, to connect, engage and enjoy life within their community. For more information on Enrych please visit
Job Purpose
This is an exciting and flexible role for a self-motivated person who is passionate about placing disabled people’s needs first andlooking for development in the charitable sector. It offers unique opportunities to improve the lives of disabled people living in the Swindon and Wiltshire area. The role would suit a self-starter, someone who is looking to develop their skills or someone seeking flexible working arrangements. As the role involves working independently it offers considerable scope for successful applicants to use their own initiative and creativity in completing tasks. Successful applicants will be given training relevant to the role.Areas you can develop your skills in are:
- Presentation Skills
- Basic Financial Understanding
- Risk Assessment
- Marketing
- Events Management
- Stakeholder Management
- Volunteer Coordination
- Research
- Working in the charitable sector
If you wish to discuss development opportunities prior to applying please contact
Duties
We are looking for someone to develop and manage our services in the Swindon area in the following ways:
Delivering person focused services to adults with a disability
- Developing and delivering our volunteer partnership service
- Assessing individual needs and aspirations, and putting in place tailored leisure and learning opportunities that meet members’ chosen outcomes
- Ensuring that there is a plan for each member to progress to a position of non-reliance on Enrych services in a realistic timeframe
- Recruiting volunteers, providing support and training as necessary
- Administering member and volunteer partnerships in accordance with Enrych operating principles
- Organising and running group events including a social programme
- Preparing and submitting regular management reports as outlined in Operational Handbook
- Demonstrating cost-effective working practices and managing volunteer and own expenses
Working with key agencies
- Identifying and establishing relationship with referral agencies, particularly in adult social care services
- Identifying and establishing relationships with all relevant stakeholders
Working as part of the Enrych team
- Attending relevant Enrych briefings/meetings (eg Co-ordinator’s meetings) to share knowledge, facilitate peer support, identify best practice and obtain training/updates
- Sharing in and enhancing the reputation of the wider Enrych team
- Keeping up to date with local and national developments in adult social care
Working to the Enrych model and standards
- Ensuring all records are kept up to date, accurate and secure
- Ensuring compliance with Enrych policies, including our Safeguarding policy
- Working in line with the principles outlined in the Operational Handbook
- Carrying out any other duties that become necessary or as directed by Enrych
PERSON SPECIFICATION
Essential
Skills and abilities
- Ability to motivate people and encourage involvement
- Ability to work in isolation, and as part of a wider team
- Good written and oral communication skills, including the ability to communicate with a wide variety of audiences
- Ability to undertake research into leisure and learning opportunities
- Excellent administration skills, including the ability to ensure all relevant finance, human resource, health and safety and confidentiality procedures are maintained when carrying out the duties of the post
- Self-serving IT skills
- Ability to manage a varied range of activities, involving competing pressures and deadlines, and to work flexibly;
Desirable
- Experience of working in the field of disability
- Experience of working for a charity
- Experience of working with volunteers
- A knowledge of the local area
- A knowledge of basic web page editing
- Understanding of the issues facing adults with a physical disability, including accessibility
- Access to a car for work purposes and a full driver’s licence
How to apply
Please send a CV and covering letter of minimum 500 words and no more than 1,000 words to plicants are also required to complete forms on equality and diversity and compliance and to return these alongside their CV and Covering Letter. These documents are available fromthe Enrych website -
Closing date for applications is noon on 16th October 2017
Applicants will be notified on 27th October 2017 if they have been shortlisted for interview
Interviews will take place on 2nd November2017 in Swindon. If you are interested in applying but unable to make this interview date please notify us and we may consider your application if we are not able to recruit following initial interviews.