Teesside Project Worker

2 weeks ago

Remote, United Kingdom Skills for People Full time

Job Title:
Project Worker - Teesside Team

Responsible to:
Teesside Team Manager

Responsible for:
Self-advocates, volunteers.

Overall Objectives of the post:

  • To deliver a range of Skills for People services and projects.
  • To carry out all aspects of project management including planning, delivery, monitoring and evaluation.
  • To work with colleagues to develop and promote Skills for People, its reputation and work.

Main duties

Project Workers work on a range of projects and services, and may be required to work on more than one.

The main duties are set out below.

1. Support to disabled adults and their carers
To support adults with a learning disability and/or autistic adults and their carers

2. Support to groups of disabled people
a) To provide support and facilitation for groups of disabled people and their carers.

b) To support adults with a learning disability and/or autistic people to take on leadership roles, for example as trainers, or Quality Checkers.

c) To provide support to adults who have experience of long stay hospital admissions and/or inpatient settings.

3. Awareness raising and education
To provide workshops, courses and information to raise awareness among disabled people, and their parents/carers and others.

4. Protection of the rights of disabled people
To protect the rights of disabled people through individual and group work. To protect people's right in all aspects of their lives.

5. Supporting disabled people to be involved

To support disabled people and carers to play an active role in all aspects of Skills for People including governance and service delivery, as directed by line managers.


6. Liaising and Networking
a) To maintain contacts with relevant agencies and individuals b) To attend relevant meetings and events to achieve the aims of Skills for People and raise awareness of the work of the organisation.

7. Social media
To use a range of social media platforms to deliver our work

8. Administration

  • To prepare accessible and useful materials to support the work of Skills for People.
  • To be actively involved in promotion of the work of the organisation and income generation for the organisation.
  • To carry out evaluation, and research on behalf of the organisation.
  • To maintain appropriate records of work.
  • To submit verbal and written reports as requested by line managers.
  • To organise and chair meetings.

9. Other Duties
a) To work with Skills for People's core values as a disability led organisation. b) To attend and participate in team and staff meetings at Skills for People. c) To participate in training, supervision and appraisal. d) To follow the organisation's policies and procedures. e) To travel regularly across Teesside and occasionally regionally and nationally as required f) To undertake any other reasonable duties as required

Person Specification

How assessed

Essential
CV/letter/interview/

Experience, knowledge, skills and (E) presentation/

personal qualities Desirable references/

(D) certificates

Experience

  • Experience of working with people with
    E CV/letter/interview a learning disability or other disenfranchised people.
  • Experience of facilitating groups.
    E Interview/presentation
  • Experience of seeking the views of
    E CV/letter/interview/ people and collating them. presentation
  • Experience of working in person
    E CV/letter/interview centred ways.
  • Experience of working within the
    E CV/letter/interview community.
  • Experience of facilitating person
    D CV/letter/interview centred plans or of working with
Individual Service Design.

  • Experience of working in ways that
    D CV/letter/interview support people with learning disabilities to take the lead.

8. Experience of designing and delivering
D CV/letter/interview/ training or awareness raising. presentation

  • Experience of working in a user-led
    D CV/letter organisation.
  • Experience of supporting people with
    D CV/letter/interview self directed support.

Skills and abilities

  • The ability to communicate effectively
    E CV/letter/interview/ and accessibly with people with presentation
learning disabilities.

  • The ability to plan, prioritise and work
    E Letter/interview on your own initiative.
  • The ability to present information in a
    E CV/letter/interview variety of ways as appropriate to the situation / audience.

4. The ability to manage situations where
E Letter/interview conflict might arise.

  • The ability to work as part of a team.
    E Letter/interview
  • The ability to support disenfranchised
    E CV/letter/interview/ people and/or people with learning presentation disabilities to take the lead.
  • The ability to organise meetings and
    E CV/letter/interview events.
  • IT skills.
    E CV/letter
  • The ability to use a range of smart
    D Letter/interview devices, online platforms, to connect

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