Community Development Co-Ordinator

Job description

Job responsibilities

Role Purpose:

This is a highly rewarding role with the opportunity to make a real difference in peoples lives. As a Community Development Co-ordinator, you will be responsible for building and maintaining partnerships with local organisations, healthcare teams, and community groups to address the needs of deprived areas and bring people together. Your role will consist of partnership and engagement with a network of local services, that support the wider determines of health, with a focus on reducing health inequalities in the areas that need it most. Working collaboratively with external stakeholders on new/current initiatives, with the aim of driving referrals into service.

This position is ideal for someone passionate about building relationships and driving positive change at a community level.

Training will be given to ensure staff / applicants are equipped to deliver effective services.

Your key responsibilities will be:

Work closely with operational colleagues to manage referral rates and develop partnerships with all potential referrers within your locality.

Organise and attend GP practice/PCN meetings to promote Integrated Wellbeing Services (IWS) and sustain referral pathways. Attend local health forums, groups, and meetings regularly to represent ABL, promote IWS, and maintain local partnerships. This will involve public speaking and presenting to small/medium groups.

Support communications strategies, including public events, training and awareness sessions, and the creation of promotional materials (e.g. social media), to raise awareness of the service and capture referrals. Some weekend work may be required to support these activities.

Support all co-production activities with local residents and stakeholders to ensure the continuous development of the service.

Collaborate closely with the entire delivery team within the Notts IWS.

Support referral agencies by ensuring they provide appropriate information about the person being referred, including demographic data and wider determinants, such as caring status. Provide timely and relevant feedback to referral agencies about those they referred.

Work with individuals to co-produce simple, personalised support plans that address their health and wellbeing needs, based on their priorities, interests, values, cultural and religious needs, and motivations.

Create bespoke pilot programmes based on Notts IWS service requirements, identifying new opportunities to establish partnerships and managing or co-managing these projects.

You will be a motivated, passionate, organised, and proactive individual with significant experience in engagement.

This role will be demanding as services develop and should become integrated in all settings. It will be essential that you use your own judgement to prioritise competing demands and workload effectively to specific timescales.

Duties and Responsibilities

This post will work under the line management of the Operations Team Lead. The role will be varied, challenging, and rewarding as the service becomes embedded in all local communities across the borough.

Skills and Competencies Required

Experience in community health settings: Previous experience within Community Development or similar community-based role is beneficial.

Adaptability to evolving services: Proven ability to work within services that are continually developing and changing.

Understanding of health inequalities: Knowledge of local deprivation and the social, economic and environmental factors that impact public health.

Motivational and supportive approach: A positive and proactive mindset with the ability to inspire, engage, and support individuals and teams to achieve the best outcomes.

Excellent communication skills: Adapt at tailoring communication to meet the needs of diverse audiences, including clients, healthcare professionals, and volunteers at all levels.

Relationship building: Skilled at fostering trust, collaboration, and strong relationships with colleagues, clients, and stakeholders within various community settings.[TB1]

Quality-focused: A natural drive to uphold and continuously improve service standards.

Open-mindedness and innovation: Values new ideas and perspectives, and remains open to different ways of thinking and working

Person Specification

Skills & Knowledge

Essential

• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal
• Demonstrable experience of excellent active listening skills
• Ability to communicate excellently both verbally and in writing at all levels, with individuals, groups, organisations and the public.
• Ability to prioritise work tasks and develop effective work streams
• Awareness of the barriers facing adults, young people and families in engaging with a healthy lifestyle.
• Excellent organisational/time management skills.
• Positive and Can Do attitude
• Non-judgemental, friendly and approachable
• Excellent IT skills including Microsoft office.

Desirable

• Ability to read and interpret data.
• Understanding of public health guidance
• Understanding of health care commissioning environment
• Capable of producing performance reports.
• Understanding of behaviour change theory.
• Good knowledge of working with adults, young people and families in a related health project.
• Knowledge of strength based approaches to working with people
• Knowledge of asset based community development
• Clear understanding and experience of Confidentiality and Information Governance
• Understanding of, or willingness to learn about, whole systems approaches within healthcare.

Job Specific Requirements

Essential

• Requires full UK driving license and access to own vehicle

Experience

Essential

• Experience of working in a community setting
• Demonstrable experience of partnership working
• Demonstrable experience of speaking to large groups

Desirable

• Experience in a leadership role.
• Previous experience of delivering training programmes.
• Experience of delivering focus groups
• Experience of public speaking
• Experience of partnership working/collaborating with various different organisations

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer details

Employer name

ABL Health Ltd

Address

Suite 1, The Willows

Ransom Wood Business Park

Mansfield

Nottinghamshire

NH21 0HJ

Employer's website

https://www.ablhealth.co.uk/work-for-us/join-our-team/ (Opens in a new tab)