Community Connector

Location**:Oxfordshire or High Wycombe**

Salary range**:£23000 - £25000**

**Bellevie Community Connector, Oxford**

**Introduction to BelleVie**

BelleVie’s vision is a world where people who give and receive care and support are valued and thrive together.

Our Values
- We make life worth living.
- We build trusted relationships.
- We are driven by compassion.
- We encourage ambition and creativity.
- We strive to be the best we can be by measuring outcomes.
- We share accountability and take pride in everything we do.

**Our Commitment**

BelleVie was founded to create a new future for care and support work - a future that works for both the skilled professionals providing support and for those people and families being supported. Our self-managing teams of Wellbeing Support workers build deep and trusted relationships with each other and those they support, so that we really focus on what matters.

Co-founders Trudie and Violaine were brought together through their passion for fair employment. Their focus on making support work the rewarding career that it should be, attracting people with the right soft skills and values, is the reason BelleVie is able to provide the high quality support it does.

**Our Services**

BelleVie offers care and support tailored to the needs and aspirations of those they support in areas such as companionship, personal care, meal preparation, social life and help around the home.

At BelleVie we’re passionate about supporting people to continue doing what they love and staying at home, for as long as is safely possible. That’s why, as well as offering Care in the home, we’ve also developed Thrive at home services. We know it can be hard to find the right services and products an individual needs to stay well and independent at home, so we’re building an extensive local community network of vetted suppliers to offer a range of different services, to make life simple and easy for those that need additional support.

**The Role**

The Community Connecter will be responsible for building and maintaining BelleVie’s ‘community’ relationships, by designing and driving engagement that builds value based community collaboration. This will include working across our Care and Thrive services.

A key part of the role will be to ensure that Wellbeing Support Workers are engaged and part of the local community outreach activity. The Community Connector will work closely with the Sales/Marketing, Recruitment and Thrive teams to provide on-the-ground support to build relationships that facilitate our progress towards supporting more people to live well in their communities. Work will include working closely with local; Charities, partners, community groups, retailers and retirement housing estates.

**Specific responsibilities**
- Represent BelleVie within the local community and contribute positively to growing the BelleVie brand
- Research opportunities where mutually beneficial value can be achieved through collaboration (both for our Care brand and Thrive at home services)
- Organise our own and joint branded events
- Support for recruitment at a local level, this may include organising workshops and supporting the Recruitment lead
- Own and update the local event / advocacy calendar
- Coordinate outreach and advocacy for relevant groups
- Attend weekly meetings with Wellbeing Support Workers and arrange volunteers where required
- Generate and record ‘opportunities’ to build the BelleVie Brand and/or support sales generation for either Care or Thrive programme
- Use CRM to keep records, follow ups and communication with other stakeholders within the business
- Develop community connections through social media channels
- Engage on social media / share content with partners / respond to enquiries
- Track outcomes and provide a report on a monthly basis

**The Person we want**
- Based in Oxfordshire or High Wycombe - need to be a car driver and happy to drive to the areas we support people in
- Closely aligned to the values and vision of BelleVie and passionate about making a difference to people’s lives
- That can thrive in a self management environment
- Excellent communicator - written and verbal
- Creative and not afraid to share ideas
- Minimum 1 year experience in advocacy, community organising or community services
- Naturally seeks / recognises opportunities
- Although not a Sales role, has an eye on commercial opportunities
- Outgoing, with the ability to unite and build great relationships
- Event experience would be preferable but more important is excellent organisational skills and methodical approach

Works from home with frequent travel

Full time - 37.5 hours

Paid mileage: £0.45/mile

**Salary**: £23000-25000