Location: Bromley by Bow Centre
Job Type: Part time, 28 hours per week
Contract Type: Fixed Term Contract, until 30 September 2025
Salary: £29,246 per annum (pro rata £23,396 per annum 0.8 FTE)
Benefits: Generous leave allowance, Interest free loan (bike, season ticket or rent), Regular social activities, Flexible use of OMP (maternity pay), Hybrid Working (60% at the Centre), Matched Contribution Pension Scheme, Employee Assistance Programme and OH support, Sabbatical
The Community Connector - Aberfeldy Big Local (ABL) role is focused around the local community and residents of the Aberfeldy area of Tower Hamlets.
The Community Connector will provide engagement, support and access to services within the Aberfeldy Big Local (ABL) area. ABL is a welcoming place for the community, known for its inclusivity and warm reception. The Community Connector often serves as the first point of contact, providing reassurance and inspiring people to engage with services, activities, and community members that can help them achieve their goals both personally and within their community.
This role aims to build relationships, help people settle, understand their interests, goals, and ambitions, and find appropriate opportunities to help them achieve these objectives. The Community Connector will work to expand the ABL's reach, ensuring that members of the Aberfeldy community are aware of the ABL site and its activities. The role also involves co-designing, developing, delivering, and reviewing resident-led activities and initiatives.
Essential Skills and Experience:
- Commitment to the vision and mission of the Bromley by Bow Centre.
- In-depth knowledge and understanding of the social determinants of health and their impact on integrated
- services in a community setting.
- In-depth understanding of systemic inequalities and barriers faced by the community and a commitment
- to anti-racist and inclusive practice.
- Experience working directly with vulnerable people, including those with long-term health conditions,
- mental ill-health, or complex lives.
- Experience of a personalized approach to supporting people, coaching, and motivational interviewing.
- Ability to work on own initiative, prioritise, and organise own caseload.
- Ability to relate to people from different backgrounds.
- Ability to make complex information accessible.
- Excellent interpersonal skills.
- Excellent customer service skills.
- Excellent numeracy, literacy, verbal, and written communication skills.
- Ability to liaise with other professionals and organisations.
- Tact and diplomacy in handling sensitive and confidential information.
- Flexibility and willingness to work in innovative and non-traditional ways.
- Experience in working collaboratively with partners and stakeholders.
- Fluency in Bengali is highly desirable to engage with the local British Bangladeshi community.
- Knowledge of the challenges and barriers faced by marginalised communities in Aberfeldy
You may also have experience in the following: Support Worker, Charity, Charities, Senior Support Worker, Social Care, Voluntary Sector, Healthcare Assistant, Care Staff, Care Assistant, Community Development, Mental health support, Care Worker, Community Support Worker, Vulnerable People, Community Engagement, Not for Profit, NFP, etc.
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