Community Engagement Officer

**Calling all Community Engagement Officer’s **

It takes a truly special person, with the right personality and a passion for making a real difference, to work for Living at Home.

Living at Home provide premium quality homecare to adults with Physical and Learning Disabilities and the Elderly.

We are actively recruiting an ambitious, driven, and caring Community Engagement Officer for our office to manage, develop and help grow the business.

At Living at Home, we pride ourselves on quality and tailor every home care package to meet the Client’s needs with a preferred minimum duration of one hour per home visit.

We are looking for someone who will always go over and above our expectations, put quality of care at the forefront of everything you do and be able to develop a strong team to continuously strive for excellence.

You will be a fundamental pillar in the overall connection with our wider Swansea community.

**Scope of the Position**

Living at Home is passionate about supporting Clients to maintain their independence and improve their quality of life.

If you are passionate about engaging with communities to support vulnerable people during difficult times in their life and have experience of working in a team, then this might be the job you have been waiting for.

Living at Home places engagement, collaboration, and partnership working at the heart of everything we do, working alongside business, industry, and the social economy, to address identified needs and achieve the best outcomes for our communities.

We have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic Community Engagement Officer to assist the organisation in achieving its aims and objectives regarding communities.

The post-holder will support Living at Home in helping residents as well as engaging with community groups and organisations across Swansea.

They will also engage with specific local area campaigns on local issues.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- To represent the Living at Home and promote services to prospective Clients in a variety of settings frequented by the target group, including residential sheltered accommodation, libraries, shopping centres, church groups etc.
- Working with and building relationships with local community groups and organisations.
- Liaising with the Business Owner and Registered Manager with regards to the local marketing/promotional opportunity requirements of the organisation
- Getting to know and understand local issues.
- To organise, implement, facilitate and manage the presence of Living at Home at relevant local business premises or events
- Attend surgeries and other meetings relating to constituents’ queries and casework
- To liaise with local organisations e.g. charities and other groups which support the target group and organise promotional talks/information sessions
- Contribute to campaigns on key local issues
- To liaise with the Care Manager to organise social events for Clients and staff to attend on a regular or seasonal basis e.g. coffee mornings, Christmas activities, summer events etc.

**Skills Required**:

- Excellent interpersonal and written communication skills
- Excellent IT skills including using Microsoft Office
- Ability to work independently as well as part of a small team
- Previous experience of working with community organisations and campaign experience is desirable
- Holding a valid driving licence and having access to a vehicle
- Previous casework experience and community engagement desirable
- Awareness of Welsh issues and devolution
- Welsh speaker desirable

**What we’re looking for**

We are looking for someone with strong people skills with proven experience and confidence in community engagement.

You should also be caring, friendly, and reliable individual with good communication skills who love helping others and who want to make a difference every day.

You should live locally to Swansea for this role, have a driving licence and your own vehicle.

**Job Type**: Part-time
Part-time hours: 20 per week

**Salary**: £10,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Casual dress
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Flexitime
- Free or subsidised travel
- Free parking
- On-site parking
- Sick pay
- Store discount

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Supplemental pay types:

- Loyalty bonus
- Performance bonus

**Experience**:

- Community engagement: 2 years (required)

Licence/Certification:

- Driving Licence (required)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Swansea

Reference ID: Community Engagement Officer