The successful applicant must have a connection to the Armed Forces community (serving or veteran), either directly or through a household member
Project Summary
The Veterans and Family Hub is run by veterans and their families for veterans and their families and works with a range of organisations in the city to shape better pathways and provides:
Social activities
Peer support and mentoring
Information, advice, and guidance for the following:
Employment, Housing Support, Mental Wellbeing, Unpaid Carers Support, Welfare Benefit
Dedicated support to unpaid carers.
The Hub works, with a range of service providers, to help veterans get the support that they are entitled to under the Armed Forces covenant.
Role Summary
The role will oversee the line management of staff and volunteers
This role will undertake statutory assessments on behalf of Plymouth City Council to look at the impact of a client’s role as an unpaid carer. You will be responsible for running drop-in support groups, activities, and events to support veterans and their families.
The Veteran’s Hub often has events and activities outside of normal working hours this includes evenings, weekends, and bank holidays.
As this role has a regular outreach element, the ability to drive and use of a personal vehicle would be an advantage.
About the role
You will be required to meet contractual and grant requirements by coordinating the efficient and effective day to day running of service delivery which involves contributing to the recruitment, ongoing support and development of staff and volunteers and deliver information, advice, and support services.
You will authorise delivery of advice/assessments and review case recording on CRM systems.
You will be involved in developing and building on existing partnerships and will contribute to the strategic development within the VCSE.
You will have overall responsibility to coordinate engagement with service users on a formal and informal level to ensure that they have a real influence in the way services are delivered.
You will be required to work closely with your line manager to develop bids and contracts and will be developing plans, monitoring, evaluating, and producing regular reports.
You will have budget responsibilities and will be accountable for the use of charitable funding.
You will be an active member of the leadership team working closely with other line managers to develop cross project delivery to provide a wraparound service to our service users reducing the need for them share their story when moving between different teams within the organisation.
You will maintain quality systems and be required to assist with the implementation of identified accreditation standards.
You will be required to undertake any additional training relevant to the role to contribute towards your continued professional development.
You will carry out any other tasks which may be within the scope of the post to ensure the effective delivery and the needs of the service.
PERSON SPECIFICATION
Experience of
Supervision
Project Coordination and Development
Financial processes
Working with the complex needs of service users
Advice, assessments, support planning and reviews
Working within social care, education, voluntary or health and wellbeing sectors and the ability to achieve positive outcomes for individuals and vulnerable groups
Partnership working and working with external organisations
Monitoring and Evaluation
Essential Skills
Ability to support and supervise individuals
Ability to lead by example, promote change and demonstrate professional behaviours
Excellent communication and inter-personal skills, with the ability to empathise with the needs of people using our services
Ability to chair meetings
Ability to deal appropriately with confidential matters
Ability to develop and maintain constructive relationships with professionals from other agencies and share information appropriately
Ability to analyse data and statistics to contribute to management information reports
Excellent IT skills including the use of Microsoft Office and CRM systems
Well-developed organisational and time management skills
Experience of balancing conflicting workload priorities
A positive, energetic and solution focussed approach
Ability to work in stressful situations
An understanding of what constitutes a safeguarding issues
Knowledge of
The demographics and health inequalities that individuals and groups may be affected by
Trauma informed approaches to service delivery
Co-production principles and how they might be applied at an operational level
Mental health issues, loneliness, long-term conditions, carers issues and veterans’ issues and the wider armed forces community, learning disability, frailty, sensory and other physical disabilities.
Desirable
Broad understanding of Plymouth health and well-being strategies
Knowledge of community-based provision across Plymouth in both the voluntary and Statutory sectors (including LiveWell, Hospital Services, Domiciliary Care)
Commitment to developing digital service provision
Change Management.
Qualifications
Level 3 Information, Advice and Guidance, or above
Leadership and Management (desirable)
English and Maths qualification
Personal Attributes
Professional attitude with the ability to prioritise workload
Able to work on own initiative
A willingness to work flexibly
APPLICATION PROCESS, CLOSING DATES AND INTERVIEWS
Closing date for applications: 21st February 2025 (we reserve the right to close the applications earlier)
Interview date: To be confirmed