Volunteer Recruitment and Engagement Lead

6 months ago


Taunton, United Kingdom St. Margaret’s Hospice Full time

Are you an experienced recruiter who can attract more volunteers to St Margaret's Hospice Care? Can you deliver an outstanding recruitment and onboarding experience for prospective volunteers?

We have a fantastic opportunity for a **Volunteer Recruitment and Engagement Lead** to join our team. This role can be based in Taunton or Yeovil and involves cross-county travel. You will join us on a full time, permanent basis and in return, you will receive a competitive salary of **£29,000 per annum**.

You won’t just be joining a fantastic team - you’ll **be part of a welcoming, community minded charity**. Our mission is to provide excellent specialist palliative care for patients and support to their families. Everyone here contributes and has a part to play towards our goal. If you speak to any of our staff or volunteers, they will tell you how the patient is at the heart of everything they do. So, if you’re looking for a role where you can really make a difference, working as part of a supportive team, we could be a perfect match.

**What can you expect to be doing?**

As our go to expert on volunteer recruitment, you will work closely with teams across the hospice to identity and meet their recruitment needs, providing specialist advice and guidance.

This is a role where you will really be able to shape the volunteer recruitment process. We'll look to you for creative ideas and guidance on how to streamline and improve the overall recruitment and onboarding experience for volunteers and their managers.

A key part of the job will be to build and maintain recruitment networks in the local community. From businesses to clubs to schools and colleges, you will champion volunteering, engaging and motivating people to apply.

The role includes attending recruitment events and fairs, occassionally on evening and weekends, to promote volunteering opportunities, build networks, and develop partnerships. Working flexibly, the role will also take you to different Hospice locations across county, including our retail spaces.

**What will you be good at?**

To be successful in this role, you will need to:

- Have specialist recruitment expertise, with an established network of recruitment and community contacts
- Have in-depth knowledge of the volunteer market and sector trends
- Be able to provide flexible solutions in response to changing recruiter requirements
- Be a confident, enthusiastic ‘people person’ with a positive attitude
- Enjoy meeting and talking to individuals and groups of people to motivate, enthuse and inspire people to participate in volunteering with St Margarets.

The role involves travel across the county, as such a driving licence is an essential requirement.

**Our Core Competencies for our Volunteer Recruitment and Engagement Lead**:

- **Self-awareness** - Understanding and being aware of yourself and how to react and interact with others
- **Leading in your area** - Regardless of management position, we all lead and take responsibility in our area of work
- **Working with others** - People working together to achieve team and organisational goals and respecting others
- **Outcomes and results** - Organising ourselves to get the job done, delivering a high-quality service, and being accountable for the outcomes

**What can we offer you?**

**Holiday entitlement**
- 33 days holiday including bank holidays rising to 35 days after 1 year, and increasing with length of service (pro-rata if part-time)
- Recognise continuous service for clinical staff paid at band 5+ who join directly from the NHS or another hospice
- Ability to buy and sell annual leave

**Pension**
- NHS employees eligible to continue with their NHS pension scheme*
- Non-NHS employees will receive 5% employer and 5% employee contribution

**Award-winning Employee Assistance Programme for you and your family offering**:

- Vitality & wellbeing health portal for non-emergency care
- Unlimited access to 24/7 online GP Consultations for employees, their partners, and dependent children as well as Expert Case Management
- Confidential and free 24-hour Employee Assistance
- Counselling and support
- Legal, financial, and medical information and advice

**And more...**
- **Life assurance cover** - 2x salary
- **Health Cash Plans** - help with covering the cost of healthcare needs by providing cashback on a range of health benefits
- Blue Light Card - Discounts on retailers and restaurants saving up to 35%
- Enhanced maternity/paternity leave*
- Excellent learning and development opportunities
- Free on-site parking in Yeovil and Taunton
- Volunteering and fundraising opportunities
- Eligibility criteria applies

Unfortunately, we are not able to offer visa sponsorship at this time.

If you have all the information you need, just click apply. We cant wait to hear from you

**Closing date**: 12th July

**Interview date**: 19th July



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