Community Support Connector (E3035)
Community Support Connector
Cheshire East Council is seeking a passionate and dedicated individual to join our Communities Team as a Community Support Connector. This role focuses on recruiting, training, and supporting volunteers to help alleviate pressures on public sector services and address health inequalities.
Key Responsibilities:
- Recruit, train, and support volunteers.
- Collaborate with local people, public, private, and voluntary sector services.
- Build on the positive changes achieved during the pandemic.
- Develop and implement strategies to support community initiatives.
About You:
- Extensive experience in recruiting and managing volunteers.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to work collaboratively with diverse groups.
- Passionate about community development and making a positive impact.
Why Join Us? During the pandemic, Cheshire East Council harnessed the passion of volunteering within our communities to build a better future. The combined efforts of local people and various sectors ensured the right support was in place for our residents. We are committed to continuing this work and making a lasting difference.
Contact: For an informal conversation, please email Kerry Ball, Senior Community Development Officer, at Kerry.ball@cheshireeast.gov.uk.
Cheshire East is an amazing place to live and work. As one of the largest employers in the borough, we are able to offer you a wide range of challenging and rewarding career opportunities.
At Cheshire East Council we are working for a brighter future – together and our commitment to you is that our workplace culture will provide a shared purpose, a well-led organisation with valued people succeeding together as one team and one council to deliver the best service for our customers and communities.
If you want to be part of our award-winning council and contribute to our ongoing success, have the flexibility and drive to enable us to innovate, are committed to working as part of a team and striving to deliver exceptional service wherever you can, we would especially like to hear from you.
As an equal opportunities employer, we welcome applicants from all backgrounds and want our workforce to reflect the diversity of our local communities so that we can all work for a brighter future - together.
www.cheshireeast.gov.uk/jobs-and-careers/employee-benefits.aspx
Community Support Connector – Volunteering
We are looking to recruit a new team member into our Communities Team. The new Community Support Connector will take a focus on recruiting, training, and supporting volunteers with the aim to alleviate pressures around public sector services and health inequalities.
During the pandemic, Cheshire East Council was able to fully embrace and harness the passion of volunteering amongst our communities, working with them to build back a better future. The combined efforts of local people, public, private, and voluntary sector services ensured the right support was in place to build on the positive changes for residents of Cheshire East. We want to continue with developing this work.
If you have extensive experience of recruiting and managing volunteers, we would like to hear from you.
For an informal conversation please email Kerry Ball, Senior Community Development Officer Kerry.ball@cheshireeast.gov.uk
Join us in making a difference in Cheshire East!
Cheshire East Council is committed to safeguarding children and vulnerable adults across the Borough. As such, any cautions, convictions, reprimands or final warnings that are ‘not protected’ as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) order 1975 (as amended in 2013) relating to the non-disclosure of spent convictions do not apply to this job. You must therefore, disclose whether you have any previous convictions where prompted to do so within the application process.
Please ensure you check the email account (including junk/spam boxes) from which you apply regularly as we will use this to contact you regarding your application.
If you have not heard from us within 4 weeks of the closing date then it is likely that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion, however please do not be discouraged from applying again.
For any technical enquiries please email sourcingteam@ecwip.co.uk
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