Location - West Bromwich, West Midlands
Contract: Fixed Term, Part-Time, 16 hours per week until 31st March 2020.
Salary - £15,839 per annum, pro rata
Action for Children
Every year, Action for Children impacts on the lives of 310,000 children, young people and their families across the UK, through our professional and committed workforce of c.4700.
We now have a fantastic opportunity to join Hillside Children's Centre as a Community Engagement Officer supporting the West Bromwich/Wednesbury area. The role will see you setting up information hubs in community venues, engaging service users and recruiting/supporting volunteers to run a range of sessions aimed at disadvantaged families, children and young adults. The hours of this role will include one late night until 8pm to accommodate an Ante Natal Changes programme (training will be provided if required).
The role will see you?
- Engaging service users and promoting the services within the community via information hubs in places such as the local library, Job centre
- Make referrals to groups
- Support clients with a range of issues such as employability, baby clinics, access to information
- Identify and recruiting volunteers and being responsible for supporting them with community sessions such as "Stay and Play"
The person?
- Qualifications - Level 2 in Early Years or Social Care - desirable
- Information, Advice and Guidance (IAG) experience/qualification - desirable
- Previous experience of working with/supporting Disadvantaged families/children
- Knowledge of Health and Safety and Safeguarding
- Early Years' experience - highly desirable
- Confident and outgoing
- Great social skills
- Flexible
- Happy to travel in the role - Driver is ideal however, there are good transport links in the area
Please refer to the full job description and person specification for further information.
The Rewards?
We offer a highly competitive salary, with a minimum of 7 weeks leave (i.e. 29 days' plus bank holidays), pro rata, an excellent company pension scheme, regular and supportive supervision, season ticket travel loan facility, interest free Development Loans and discounts at major high street retailers. Plus, a lot more.
For further details please contact Dione Riach on dione.riach@actionforchildren.org.uk or on 07384 836122 quoting reference 2984
We look forward to your application!
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