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Community Connector (Edgbaston Early Help)

Position: Community Connector (Edgbaston Early Help)
Location: Birmingham, covering Edgbaston
Hours: 16 hours per week
Salary: £24,000pa (Pro Rata)
Contract: Fixed term until 31st March 2025
Benefits: The provision of workplace wellbeing support and activities, flexible working and a
range of family-friendly policies and subsidised parking.

Closing Date: 15th October 2023
Interview Date: W/C 23 rd 2023

The Role

The role involves building working relationships for Children, Young People and Families
across Community, Voluntary and Statutory organisations (including schools and training
providers, Health Providers, Business and community stakeholders within the Locality
Partnership).

The Community Connector will engage with all the many and various communities and
voluntary organisations in a locality, ensuring that the diversity of the city is reflected in the
mapping of assets and support.

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Responsibilities
  • Relationship building
  • Community engagement and mapping
  • Delivering training and support to professionals within the locality to support
  • Understanding of the Early Help offer and the support available
  • Social Prescribing and Digital Networking
Requires Skills/Experience

We are looking for a dynamic and energetic communicator with excellent engagement and interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate effectively with young people, parents and carers who are experiencing health, wellbeing or social care difficulties. You will have

  • Experience of working in an engagement role with diverse community settings with statutory and third-sector organisations
  • Experience of working with organisations that support vulnerable children, young people, families or groups
  • An understanding of information sharing, consent and confidentiality issues and risks
  • Experience and understanding of the importance of equality, diversity and inclusion
  • An understanding of the lived experience of individuals from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic backgrounds

 

To Apply

Please review the attached Job Description
Please send this via email recruitment@gatewayfs.org to apply.