Job title: Fuel Your Finances Support Workers (Mansfield)
Service: Food Services
Location: Mansfield
Hours: 14.8 - 22.2 hours per week (part-time)
Salary: £24,724 - £27,232 FTE per annum (Up to £14,834.40 - £16,339.20 per annum for 22.2 hours per week)
Contract type: Temporary until 31st March 2026
Closing date: 9th October 2024
Interview date: 14th October 2024
Here at Family Action, we have an exciting opportunity for Support Workers to join our friendly Fuel Your Finances team, supporting people to reduce their financial pressures and stress - leading to improved mental health and wellbeing. The Fuel Your Finances project will be delivered in Mansfield and London (Tower Hamlets and Aldgate), working alongside food provision such as FOOD Clubs and Food Stores. We are looking for 2 Support Workers to work specifically in Mansfield.
Your impact:
You will deliver face to face 1-2-1 sessions and group workshops in a wide range of community venues in Mansfield (e.g. schools, children's centres), achieving a range of positive outcomes including: increased income; reduced financial pressures and stress; increased skills, knowledge and confidence around cooking, eating and heating in an energy efficient and healthy way; reduced energy use and savings on energy bills; increased awareness around energy safeguarding, gas safety and the dangers of carbon monoxide, contributing to improved safety at home; increased awareness of and engagement with other local support services.
Your skills (for details check the job description and person specification):
You will have experience of designing and delivering community based activities that achieve positive outcomes for individuals and their families. You will be able to demonstrate excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to develop and sustain relationships with colleagues, partners and stakeholders.
What will we offer you?
We offer flexible working hours, a generous pension scheme and leave entitlements, eye care vouchers, a cycle to work scheme and other great benefits. We have an excellent wellbeing offer and we will invest in your professional development with on-going quality training and career development opportunities. We have six staff diversity networks that offer peer support and contribute to the strategic development of EDI; Accessibility Network, Anti-Racism and People of Colour Network, Gender Equality Network, Inter-Faith Network, LGBTQIA+ Equality Network and Parents and Carers Equality Network. You'll join an established, supportive and high-performing service and have the opportunity to thrive in an innovative organisation that values your opinion, encourages learning and has the needs of children and families at its core.
We are forward looking, ambitious and committed to continuous improvement. We are a people focused, can-do organisation, which strives for excellence in all we do and operates with mutual respect. If you share these values and behaviours and have the necessary skills, then we look forward to hearing from you.
Our commitment to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion:
We are committed to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion in all that we do and welcome applications from all sections of the community / particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates, LGBTQ+ candidates and candidates with disabilities because we are committed to increasing the representation of these groups at Family Action. We know that greater diversity will lead to even greater results for families and children and strive for our workforce to be truly representative of the diverse communities we support. We offer a guaranteed interview scheme for disabled applicants who meet the minimum scoring criteria and will reimburse any reasonable travel costs associated with attending an interview.
Appointments are subject to satisfactory Safer Recruitment checks, including a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check where appropriate to the role.
Other organisations may call this role Workshop Facilitator, Community Workshop Co-ordinator, Workshop and Support Facilitator, Community Outreach Worker, or Community Engagement Facilitator.
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