Community Wellbeing Practitioner. Job in Knottingley Education & Training Jobs

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Role: Community Wellbeing Practitioner

Salary: £28,617 per annum

Location: Knottingley

Hours: Monday to Friday 08:00 hours.

Benefits:

• Contributory pension scheme
• Annual Flu Injections
• High Street and Leisure discounts
• On-site Parking
• Subsidised staff Canteen
• Free Tea & Coffee
• Free Fruit Friday
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Grocery Aid
• Eligible for Costco membership
• Cycle 2 Work
• UK Fuel card discounts

About the role:

This position has responsibility for the delivery of Community Hub's programmes and community-based initiatives that align in responding to the community needs. You will need to have the potential to solve community-based problems, be ready and willing to create positive changes in our community and to question and rethink concepts, assumptions, and practices.

You will work closely with internal and external stakeholders demonstrating your leadership, initiative, ability to problem solve, and capacity to respond flexibly to unexpected demand.

Accountabilities and Responsibilities

Operational

• Ensure that all Health, Safety & Environmental policies and practices are upheld
• Locally lead and deliver Community Hub's Social Impact and Development services including the promotion and support of communities through development and engagement initiatives
• Ability to deliver membership drives to broaden Community Hub's Social Impact
• Deliver in-house training and development programmes
• Delivery of effective social programmes with housing providers and more widely across the not-for-profit, social enterprise, public and private sectors
• Implement, data gather and formulate bespoke projects including project design, setting budgets, managing resources, and ensuring good knowledge transfer alongside Regional Social Impact & Development Manager
• Build understanding within both the social sector and beyond Community Shop to develop social impact business offers
• Deliver and develop effective Membership practices to ensure access and promotion for service users to Community Shop

Colleagues

• Engage your team both within your department and within other departments to support cross-functional and positive working relationships
• Employ a supportive and high-performing culture with consistent delivery through excellent leadership and motivation
• Keep up to date with information relevant to your department and cascade this accordingly to your team

KPIs

• Consistent and effective membership drive to maximise utilisation of services through Community Store, Hub, and Kitchen (35 per week)
• Written material of good quality standard
• Good standard effective communication with team regarding implementation of social programmes
• Electronic and paper filing systems are well organised and maintained
• All sensitive/confidential information managed with integrity and maturity

The Successful Candidate:

Essential

• Lead by example and uphold the clients' values at all times
• Be flexible and adaptable to support the needs of the business
• Solution-focused mindset; bringing solutions and opportunities
• A desire to continually focus on your own continued professional development
• Sound understanding of and experience in social change objectives and strategies
• Ability to deliver effective training and development programmes
• Experience in implementing and administering data collection tools
• Demonstrated capacity to work at a community level
• High level experience in shared implementation of social programmes with relevant multi-disciplinary organisations
• Highly developed communication skills and strong interpersonal skills
• Commitment to achieving high quality, innovative results
• Ability to work collaboratively, flexibly, and with initiative to fulfil both individual and team performance targets
• Confident presenter and trainer
• Confident with Microsoft Office and Excel
• Well-developed organisational and time management skills
• High level attention to detail
• Ability to simultaneously coordinate multiple tasks and meet deadlines

Desirable

• Professional qualification in community or social science discipline
• Awareness of current issues affecting community-based working
• Knowledge of recent and relevant educational legislation
• Knowledge of social science/community development theories and evidence as applied in community-based settings
• Full driving licence

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