Job Description

Core Responsibilities

1. Working with the Hambleton Community Action staff team and the Community Support Team at RAF Leeming to manage and co-ordinate the project ensuring delivery per the project plan.

2. Deliver projects that support people's wellbeing through social participation and volunteering

3. Ensuring volunteers delivering these projects and activities are inducted and deployed in line with their interests, and have access to appropriate levels of training, support and supervision

4. Working with colleagues and the Community team to deliver activities in line with the project plans, including ongoing development and improvements

Key Activities for the Outreach Lead (Leeming)

Overview:

Hambleton Community Action offers a range of practical interventions to enable participation, whether socially, economically, or in the community.

This new project is being funded through the Armed Forces Covenant Fund Trust. It will support military families living on RAF Leeming and the surrounding areas, to improve wellbeing and promote volunteering on and around the station. The project aims to build confidence and resilience and develop skills within the community. You will also be required to run a monthly social group for partners and family members whose serving family member is away from home.

Key Activities:

To identify, set up and co-ordinate volunteer-involving projects, specifically for those living on base and the surrounding areas, to build towards volunteer led services

To promote the social and wellbeing benefits of volunteering on and around the station and Hambleton and Richmondshire

Act as the key contact for this project

Explore and develop a community transport scheme for volunteers and service users based on our established model

Ensuring volunteers delivering these projects and activities are inducted and deployed in line with their interests, and have access to appropriate levels of training, support and supervision

Working with HCA colleagues and the Leeming Community team to deliver activities in line with the project plans, including ongoing development and improvements

Setting up, facilitating and supporting new social groups for families whose loved ones are away from home

Matching volunteers and beneficiaries for one-to-one interventions

Ensure that health and safety guidelines are adhered to, and risk assessments are undertaken for project activities.

Maintain client and volunteer records according to our policies and procedures

Provide support to and share learning with the community welfare team and volunteers, whilst maintaining confidentiality

Monitoring and reporting:

Working with our Impacts Officer, collating qualitative and quantitative data to demonstrate the impact of the intervention on individuals and organisations

Using the Impact Hub provided by AFCFT to record beneficiaries and their wellbeing outcomes

Escalate relevant and appropriate information/learning to colleagues

Working with colleagues, to explore if/how the project should be expanded, and provide assistance developing related funding applications

Essential attributes:

Have some lived experience of military life/ or life with serving personnel

Confident and effective verbal, non-verbal and written communication skills.

The ability to broker and foster mutually-beneficial, boundaried relationships between clients and volunteers based on shared interests, experience, etc.

The ability and desire to develop mutually beneficial relationships with external organisations

An organised and flexible approach with the ability to effectively plan and manage a personal diary to meet the needs of a varied workload.

The ability to work alone unsupervised and complete all tasks agreed within deadlines whilst maintaining high quality standards.

Strong levels of literacy, numeracy and IT to ensure all record-keeping is completed accurately, and that reports are produced on time and to a high standard.

The ability to use online computer systems, inputting real time data and completing reports and case studies to evidence work completed.

Full UK driving licence and own transport as you will be required to travel within Hambleton and Richmondshire.

Flexible approach to all tasks and duties with a team ethos and a willingness to undertake training and development activity

Preferred Skills and Qualifications

Experience of delivering groupwork and/or other supportive and social interventions

Experience of partnership working with public, private and voluntary sector agencies

First Aid qualification

Good understanding of safeguarding protocols in North Yorkshire, including Making Safeguarding Personal

Good understanding of confidentiality and data protection regulations / legislation

Personal experience of volunteering

To apply: Please send CV and covering letter either by email or post to Angela Heys, Hambleton Community Action, 159/160 High Street, Northallerton, DL7 8JZ

Other details

Hours: Part-time (22.5 x hours per week), spread over 4 days with some evening work required

Salary: 25,825.50 pro rata plus 5% pension contribution, reviewed on successful completion of probation.

Contract: This role is offered as a fixed-term contract, ending 31st October 2027. It is offered with a 6-month probationary period.

Holidays: Full-time allowance is 22 days plus statutory holidays, rising by one day per year up to a maximum of five years (this is pro-rata'd for part-time staff).

Purpose: To support the charity in building social capital both within RAF Leeming and the surrounding areas. To co-ordinate and support family members of serving and ex-military personnel to achieve beneficial levels of social connection and activity, thus supporting and promoting wellbeing.

Location: A mix of office-based and outreach, including occasional client home visits

Please note any offer of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and the completion of a DBS check (enhanced plus barred).

Whilst there is no closing date for this job vacancy, applications will close when we consider we have sufficient applications.

Job Types: Part-time, Contract

Expected hours: 22.5 per week

Work Location: In person