Home Based: With travel across Buckinghamshire

Job reference: 10

Contract type: Permanent

Part time: 25.9 hours, working pattern TBC

Salary: £20,822.20 -  £24,496.50 pro rata, per annum [FTE £29,746.00 - £34,995.00 per annum] (dependent on experience) + Benefits

Benefits:

• 25 days annual leave (pro rata)
• Cash Wellbeing Healthcare Plan Cover
• Death in service benefit 
• Option to buy up to 5 days annual leave (pro rata)
• Discretionary shut down days at Christmas
• 1 Community Leave Day per annum
• Bike to work scheme

 

Job Information:

Giving people a voice – and making sure it’s heard – is something POhWER does every day. We’re all about promoting equality, challenging unfairness and giving disadvantaged and vulnerable people access to high quality information, advice and advocacy services. POhWER is a registered charity that provides a range of services across England.

Job Information:

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a full time Community Manager to join our team on a permanent basis. 

You will be responsible for leading and developing our specialist advocates in the delivery of advocacy within Buckinghamshire to work with people to ensure that their voices are heard and that they have a say in decisions being made about their lives.

We help people understand and participate in their care and treatment, keeping them at the centre of decision making at all times. Our advocates’ role is to inform people of their rights, understand the goals and ambitions that each person wants to work towards and to support and empower them to be involved in decisions about them including supporting them to raise any concerns or complaints.

You will be supporting your teams in Buckinghamshire in working with a wide range of vulnerable adults often with profound and multiple needs, so you will need have experience of this type of work, along with a good working knowledge of public and voluntary organisations.

You will be a confident positive team player, able to work in partnership with colleagues, clients and professionals, gaining an understanding of their issues by listening, exploring options and agreeing actions. Our ideal candidate will have worked in advocacy, information and advice or a similar role before, ideally in a health, social care, secure or voluntary setting.

You will need to have a flexible attitude and must be comfortable handling highly sensitive information whilst able to work well independently and confidently on behalf of others. Strong and inspiring leadership skills and time management skills will be required and you will need to be computer literate. 

Because of the nature and location of the role, applicants must have a full driver’s licence and access to their own transport. All reasonable travel expenses will be paid in line with POhWER’s expenses policy.

Download the full Job Description and Applicant Information Pack

How to apply:

We’re keen to get a Community Manager started in this role. If you think this sounds like the ideal job for you, please apply as soon as possible as we may close this job advert early if we receive a high number of applications.

Please submit your CV and cover letter (cover letter no longer than 1 side of A4) before the application deadline. In your cover letter please include your reasons for applying for the role, how you meet the person specification criteria, if you hold a current driving licence and have access to your own vehicle and your notice period.  

Please apply by submitting your CV and cover letter here.

Closing date: Midnight, Monday 6th May 2024

Interviews: Tuesday 7th May & Wednesday 8th May 2024

Interview location: Remote (via Microsoft Teams or Zoom)

We are looking to recruit people who share our core values and can demonstrate that they apply and live those values in their daily working practice. 

For an informal discussion please contact 0300 456 2370 and ask for a call back from Anna Hansell, Head of Service for South West and Wales.

A DBS check will be conducted for this post. 

POhWER is an equal opportunities employer, holder of the Investors in People Silver award and a member of the MINDFUL EMPLOYER scheme. We are a member of the Positive about Disability scheme and disabled applicants who meet all the essential criteria will be guaranteed an interview.