Physical Activity Connector

2 weeks ago

Birkenhead, United Kingdom Involve Northwest Full time

Involve Northwest is an innovative, community-based organisation with an approach that is grounded in our core belief that the services we offer are free, confidential, and are motivated for public benefit, and not profit.

**Job Title**:Physical Activity Connector

**Service/Project**:Connect Us

**Contract Length**: Fixed term - 12 months (October 2024)

**Salary**: £9,600 Actual Salary (£24,000 per annum FTE)

**Working Hours**:Part Time: 14 Hours per week

**Location**:The Community Village, Rock Ferry, and the Wirral community.

**Reporting To**:Connect Us Head of Service

**Direct Staff**: No direct staffing responsibilities

The Connect Us project recognises that there are inherent strengths in communities and on this basis that we are taking forward the ABCD approach, which subscribes to the belief that it takes a village to raise a child.

**Job Purpose**:To connect with members of the community, engaging their talents and skills to identify what is important to them from a Physical health perspective in a person-centred manner.

**Core Duties and Responsibilities**:

- 80% of this job will involve connecting at a local (street & neighbourhood) level in the community.
- Discover the identification of people’s activity goals and aspirations, for the benefit of their own physical health.
- Support people to identify the relevant community assets available that will help those goals be achieved.
- Work alongside the Connect Us service to identify community members who require physical activity support.
- Support individuals to help them to develop and achieve their goals.
- Facilitating physical health related group activities and liaising with local stakeholders.
- Collaboratively work with the Active Wirral team to establish the physical activity opportunities.
- Connect people to and share information about services, activities, groups, and assets.
- Mobilising the community around a shared aspiration.
- Identify local informal groups and associations and build relationships, encouraging collaboration between organisations and residents.
- Support local connectors and act as a resource in bringing them together to form an ad hoc collective that’s helps to weave community health activities and associations.
- Capture local stories from learning sites and share findings with key partnership stakeholders.
- Support individuals to access physical health activities where required.
- Work in line with contract targets, and monitor/record all work to enable you to produce quality monthly reports.
- **A connector is a community member who cares and has strong connections within the community.**_

**Company Duties and Responsibilities**:

- To work in line with set company policies and procedures, including ISO9001:2015 and GDPR 2018.
- To work to Involve Northwest’s Safeguarding procedures.
- To always represent the charity in the best manner.
- To demonstrate a commitment to the vision, values, and strategic aims of Involve Northwest.
- To maintain high standards of professionalism and keep abreast of current legislation, standards, best practice and maintain a focus of continuous improvement.
- To work within the practice standards of the Connect Us Service.

**Person Specification - Essential**

**Experience**
- Working and empowering people within the community and supporting social isolation barriers.
- Experience of working within communities with a diverse range of stakeholders.
- Experience of “getting the best out of people” in a safe timely manner.
- Working with the challenges faced by the community.
- Setting and maintaining appropriate boundaries with community member and professionals.

**Knowledge and Skills**
- Level 2 Certificate in Fitness Instructing - Qualification & Credit Framework (QCF) or equivalent
- Understanding of social isolation and health and wellbeing.
- Community leadership and team building skills, strong facilitation skills.
- IT literate - competent and ability to use a CRM system.
- Ability to research information from a range of sources.
- Managing a caseload with the ability to produce quality monthly reports.

**Personal Attributes**
- Be compassionate and empathetic with your client’s situation.
- Act with integrity and respect when working with all clients, agencies, and Individuals.
- Flexible, adaptable, and strong team player and a good active listener.
- Be a team player with an open and honest manner, with the ability to build on effective relationships and work collaboratively with community leaders, local authority, and professionals.
- Ability to ‘step back’ and enable communities to do for themselves.
- Able to prioritise tasks, workload, and good time management skills.
- Be motivational and empowering.
- Political awareness with and ability to influence, challenge and support.
- Believe everyone has something essential to contribute to build communities regardless of their past experiences or the labels others have placed on them and ar

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