Community Connector
3 months ago
About The Role:
***- North Norfolk is a fantastic place to live, work and visit - covering over 360 sq miles of coastal and rural environment, with a population of over 100,000 people living in 120 distinct communities, our District is one of England's top holiday destinations and a place where people positively choose to live.- As a Community Connector you will help maintain a new service to understand and identify local issues and their impact on the health and wellbeing of individuals and communities, identifying priorities, needs or gaps in support, facilities or service provision.- The aim of the service is to improve health and wellbeing for individuals as well as support communities to increase community resilience and promote inclusivity, integration and community cohesion.
We are looking for a Community Connector for Fakenham, Wells & surrounding villages, on a fixed term contract to 31st March 2024.
About You:
***- To be successful in this role you will have experience of working autonomously and as part of a team and the ability and skills required to effectively engage with individuals and communities. You will be innovative, inspirational and passionate about improving the quality of life for individuals and the wider community.
As a Community Connector you will help identify solutions to issues, work strategically and in partnership with a range of organisations as well as support the development of services to meet and respond to community need.
If you have the characteristics and skills required to develop and be part of the Community Connector Service and enjoy a varied and challenging workload - we would like to hear from you.
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About Us:
***We're committed to promoting equality of opportunity for the people and communities of North Norfolk. We respect and value difference in our district and across our workforce, and we want everyone to feel included and able to play their part in making North Norfolk a great place to live, learn, work and visit.
Our coast and environment are really important to us.
We are part of Coastal Partnership East, an organisation with responsibility for our coastline from Holkham to Felixstowe in Suffolk.
We have a net zero strategy, and a team of people working to deliver these important initiatives.
As one of the largest employers in the district, we offer a number of benefits that are open to all employees.
We have a really supportive culture of enabling our people to learn and grow through attending courses, e-learning, and their day to day job roles.
Our office in Cromer is clean, modern and light with onsite lunchtime catering, and free onsite parking.
We have an active health and well-being group with a new strategy, mental health first aiders, employee assistant program, employee discounts portal, and salary sacrifice schemes (bikes, home electricals and EV car leasing).
We have a great forum for communication with regular updates from Directors and Chief Executive, employee voice through our Staff Focus Group, and great working relationship with Unison, our onsite recognised union.
Most people that work for North Norfolk District Council can enjoy a great work life balance, as part of our hybrid approach to work.
If your role supports hybrid working, and we've shown you all that we need to for your job role, all we ask is that you have a stable and reliable internet connection.
In terms of the numbers, if you are new to the public sector, you'll enjoy 25 days holiday per year plus bank holidays, and when you've been with us for five years, this increases to 30 days (assuming the role is full time).
