Service Co-ordinator

**Job Title**: Service Co-ordinator - North Powys

**Location (UK)**: Homebased - across North Powys (areas such as Llanfyllin, Welshpool, Newtown, Machynlleth, Llanidloes, Knighton)
**Salary**: £25,622 per annum pro-rata (_£15,373_)

**Benefits**: Read more about the excellent benefits we offer on our profile page
**Contract type**: Fixed term to March 2025
**Travel**:Frequent travel will be required across the region
**Closing date**:23:59, Wednesday 14 June 2023

We are Versus Arthritis. We are volunteers, healthcare professionals, researchers and friends, all doing everything we can to push back against arthritis. We won’t stop until no-one has to tolerate living with the pain, fatigue and isolation of arthritis.

CWTCH is entering an exciting phase in its development and as a result we need to expand our team of energetic, passionate and experienced staff. Join us and use your skills, knowledge, passion and energy to help us defy arthritis.

We are keen to recruit individuals with the right values and behaviours who are enthusiastic and proactive to contribute to the development of our unique CWTCH Cymru project (Communities Working Together Can Help). All roles are home based, and you will be joining a growing team who are passionate about providing high quality services to people with arthritis across Wales.

**About the role**

Working alongside our current services teams you will help shape and deliver activity, peer support and self-management services for people living with arthritis in your region as part of our CWTCH Cymru Project.

You will be responsible for building strong, positive relationships with our valued and respected volunteers, branches and groups and the wider community, including the voluntary and statutory sector.

You will work closely with wider teams to identify, recruit, train and support volunteers who have lived experience of arthritis. You will explore all conventional and more innovative routes for volunteer recruitment so that we can build trained and sustainable volunteer teams who can make a lasting impact on the lives of people with arthritis in their area.

Due to the nature of our services, some evening and weekend working may be required.

**Key requirements**
- Experience of recruiting, training, supervising and supporting volunteers with long-term health conditions.
- An understanding of peer support and self-management concepts.
- Proven experience in developing and managing relationships with diverse communities.
- Excellent organisational skills, with the ability to structure their days and manage competing priorities.
- Motivation, with the ability to work on their own initiative and be adaptable to change.

This is a home-based, part-time position working across the region and will involve significant travel which requires access to transport. At times, there may also be additional travel for team meetings and to cover for other Service Co-ordinators.
In return, we offer a competitive range of benefits, a good work/life balance, excellent learning and development opportunities and a vibrant and friendly organisational culture. Find out more about what we offer on our website.

**Above all we want individuals with a commitment to**:

- Providing a quality service.
- Enabling people with arthritis to live more independently.
- Reducing the isolation and loneliness experienced by people with arthritis.
- Building trust and respect internally and externally.
- **We do not wish to receive contact from agencies or media sales.**_
- Versus Arthritis is committed to keeping children, young people and vulnerable adults safe from harm. During the recruitment process Versus Arthritis will undertake safer recruitment practices and relevant checks to ensure applicants are suitable to work with children, young people and vulnerable adults._

**Job Types**: Part-time, Fixed term contract
Contract length: 21 months
Part-time hours: 21 per week

**Salary**: £25,622.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Casual dress
- Company pension
- Health & wellbeing programme
- Work from home

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Work Location: In person