Welfare Officer - RAF Coningsby
* Employment Type: Full time
* Location: On site · Lincolnshire, UK
* Salary: Up to £27,000 (GBP)
* Closing: 11:59pm, 24th Sep 2024 BST
About the role
Our Welfare Officers provide direct and impactful welfare support to RAF personnel and their immediate family. As a trusted and confidential source of support, you will assist our service users with challenges they are facing, including mental ill-health, difficult relationships, domestic abuse, financial and cost-of-living concerns, resettlement, housing, childcare, equality issues, bereavement, military discharge or deployment, and many more. No day will be the same, making this a great opportunity to develop your knowledge and skills within the Welfare sector.
Our intervention is provided with consent on a non-statutory basis, and you will work with and engage our service users to develop appropriate interventions for individual outcomes.
Our service is transitioning to become more accessible and inclusive, with digital technology playing a key role. You will use digital technologies to complement and enhance processes and service user experience.
You will play an active role within the community, promoting the service through the delivery of presentations and representing the service at public engagement events. You will also work closely with RAF welfare teams, local authorities, health, education, civilian agencies, charities, and other military organisations to ensure the best outcomes for the service user.
About the Team
2024 marks 34 years since SSAFA began delivering an independent non-statutory and confidential service for the Royal Air Force community across the UK. This is an exciting time to join as we were recently successful in our bid to continue delivering this service.
We are transforming our ways of working to be innovative, ensuring our service is even more inclusive and accessible to meet the needs of a modern RAF.
As part of this transition, we are recruiting for several Welfare Officer vacancies across the UK, including apprenticeship opportunities which will be advertised in due course.
We are a hard-working team from diverse professional backgrounds. Although we all have our own areas of responsibility, we support each other in delivering the best possible service to our military community.
About you
To thrive in this role, you will have relevant experience of supporting adults, families, and children/young people. You will be able to take a flexible and creative approach to problem-solving and have excellent communication skills to deliver presentations with confidence.
You will have used Microsoft Office 365 to a high standard and have experience in planning and managing your own workload with minimal supervision.
It would be advantageous if you have experience of carrying out assessments, preparing plans, monitoring, and reviewing outcomes.
Some travel will be required, so you will need to be able to drive and have access to your own car.
About SSAFA
SSAFA, the Armed Forces charity, is a trusted source of support for the Armed Forces community in their time of need. In 2023, our trained teams of volunteers and employees helped more than 53,000 people, including veterans, serving personnel (regulars and reserves), and their families.
SSAFA understands that behind every uniform is a person. We are here for that person and their family, any time they need us and in any way they need us.
Diversity and Inclusion at SSAFA
SSAFA exists to support a diverse range of beneficiaries within the armed forces community, and we believe diversity within our teams is key to delivering our services effectively. We thrive on differences and believe it is critical to our success as a worldwide charity. SSAFA is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace that seeks to recruit, develop, and retain the most talented people from a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We encourage applications from all genders, races, religions, ages, and sexual orientations, as well as parents, veterans, people living with disabilities, and any other groups that could bring diverse perspectives to our business.
SSAFA is committed to using the Disclosure & Barring Service to ensure we, as an employer, safeguard those we serve.
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