Befriending & Inclusion Coordinator
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**Befriending & Inclusion Coordinator**:
**BEFRIENDING & INCLUSION COORDINATOR**
**Salary: Grade J: £44,691- £47,736 per annum plus Travel Allowance of £1,220 per annum**
**Hours: 35 per week**
**DBS Required? Y - Enhanced Check with Children’s Barred List**
Responsible to: Group Manager, Children with Disabilities Team
**Responsible for: Depu**ty Coordinator, Family Engagement Worker and Sessional workers
**Role Purpose**
The London Borough of Tower Hamlets Befriending and Inclusion Service are looking for an enthusiastic and caring person to lead a team of befrienders for disabled children who live in the borough.
The children range in age from five to seventeen years of age and have varying disabilities such as autism, cerebral palsy, Downs Syndrome, global delay, and visual and hearing impairments. You should be confident in managing behaviours and tantrums that disabled children often tend to display.
**Requirements**:
You will need to have a very good standard of written and spoken English.
**Additional Information**
Tower Hamlets is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. An Enhanced DBS disclosure that is satisfactory to us will be a condition of appointment.
**Application Details**
This post is open to the following types of applicants: Redeployees/ Internal/ External
If this role is available to Internal employees only, this will include agency workers but does not include independent contractors or Skills Match trainees
Tower Hamlets vision for our borough is that: people are aspirational, independent and have equal access to opportunities; we are a borough that our residents are proud of and love to live in; and we are a dynamic, outcomes-based council using digital innovation and partnership working to respond to the changing needs of our borough. We want people who aspire to our TOWER values: Together; Open; Willing; Excellent; Respect.
Tower Hamlets has a zero-tolerance approach to, and works to eradicate, all forms of discrimination on the basis of race, sex, disability, age, religion or belief, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marital status, status as a civil partner, gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy and maternity and looks to employ a diverse workforce representative of those groups. We recognise that people can also be disadvantaged by their social and economic circumstances, so we will work to eliminate discrimination and disadvantage caused by social class.
We welcome applicants interested in flexible working arrangements and also applicants who live in the borough.
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