Events and Activities Co Ordinator - #145902
Glow
Date: 1 day ago
City: Stoke-on-Trent
Contract type: Full time
Salary £26,178.60 a year
Location Stoke-on-Trent
Hours per week 37.5
Contract type Fixed Term
This is a Fixed Term, Salaried vacancy that will close in 11 days at 23:59 BST.
The role
You will be responsible for planning and delivering a wide range of events and activities to customers at Concrete’s male accommodation scheme. You’ll work with customers experiencing a variety of complex needs, including homelessness, substance misuse and mental health, all while recognising and embracing diversity is essential to the success of the role. You’ll be a ‘community connector,’ linking customers to the local area and ensuring that they feel strong, safe and confident.
Job Requirements
Please note that we will be interviewing as we go, and so may close the vacancy early if we find the right person.
#Stoke #StokeonTrent #EventsAndActivitiesCoordinator #EventsAndActivities #Homelessness #FullTime #GreatBenefits #JobsThatGiveBack #ComplexNeeds #HousingCrisis
Who We Are
We’re part of Honeycomb Group, a team of social-minded brands championing happy homes in our region by providing services and support that help people across Staffordshire and its surrounding areas feel secure, connected and confident.
Homelessness isn’t a choice. It can happen to anyone.
Concrete is a local charity, support network and campaigner leading the fight to erase homelessness within Staffordshire and its surrounding areas.
Through a community-led approach, Concrete helps those without a plan, without a voice and without a home build concrete futures by tackling the underlying issues that keep
people from finding and securing a home of their own.
Join us on our fight to make homelessness history across Staffordshire and everywhere.
Why choose us
No Matter What Brand You're Working With Across The Honeycomb Group, You Can Trust Us To Look After You. Creating a Happy Home Doesn't Just Apply To Our Customers, It Applies To Our Staff Too. That's Why We Offer
A range of discounts at many high-street retailers and well-known brands.
Discounted gym membership at our head office and access to our cycle to work scheme – save money on bikes and equipment.
We offer flexible working, to help you manage your work-life balance.
Annual leave purchase scheme with two chances to join and boost your annual leave- you will also be entitled to time off for public holidays or paid days to take flexibly.
We also give all staff 'My Day'. Whether it’s celebrating a birthday, spending time with family or just taking a day off to relax. You can use your My Day for anything that really matters to you.
A commitment to your learning and development with a great onboarding experience, external events, conferences, coaching, training courses and support with professional qualifications.
Keep fit and save money with our cycle to work scheme. Purchase bikes and equipment through your salary and save on tax and national insurance contributions.
Our Employee Assistance Programme gives you free access to 24-hour phone counselling support, health advice and legal advice, 365 days a year and face-to-face counselling options.
Occupational Health services. Access to a range of services, including free eye tests and flu vaccinations.
We never shut the door
At Honeycomb Group we know that a Group full of people from diverse backgrounds and communities makes us better at what we do. This means building a more inclusive and diverse workplace and promoting equality for all regardless of what you look like, where you come from and who you love. We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from everyone. We will not discriminate against any applicant or employee because of race, ethnicity, age, gender, sexual orientation, disability or belief.
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Location Stoke-on-Trent
Hours per week 37.5
Contract type Fixed Term
This is a Fixed Term, Salaried vacancy that will close in 11 days at 23:59 BST.
The role
You will be responsible for planning and delivering a wide range of events and activities to customers at Concrete’s male accommodation scheme. You’ll work with customers experiencing a variety of complex needs, including homelessness, substance misuse and mental health, all while recognising and embracing diversity is essential to the success of the role. You’ll be a ‘community connector,’ linking customers to the local area and ensuring that they feel strong, safe and confident.
Job Requirements
- Develop a wide range of individual and group activities within the scheme, to empower customers at VCH. This might include gardening clubs, cooking classes, reading group sessions, bingo, ICT skills classes and more.
- Develop an understanding and knowledge of what activities and groups are already running in the local area, to make sure that customers are connected to the community.
- Link with community hubs and lounges to build strong partnership networks.
- Make sure that activities are tailored to the needs of customers within the scheme, developing strong links with onsite staff.
- Understand the wider needs of the community and link customers to community events which benefit the wider community, where possible.
- Refer customers to external support agencies in conjunction with the onsite staff where needed.
- Experience of event and activities co-ordination and delivery.
- Experience of engaging with complex customers.
- Experience of giving great customer service, with a genuine compassion for people. You’ll be able to deliver a friendly and approachable service that people will want to use.
- Highly motivated and outcome focused.
- Able to demonstrate the ability to provide quality direction and support a team to achieve targets.
- Able to remain calm and focused under pressure.
- Able to deliver a friendly and approachable service as part of a wider team whilst working independently to meet all of our customer’s needs.
- Full UK driving licence with access to own vehicle for work.
- DBS check.
Please note that we will be interviewing as we go, and so may close the vacancy early if we find the right person.
#Stoke #StokeonTrent #EventsAndActivitiesCoordinator #EventsAndActivities #Homelessness #FullTime #GreatBenefits #JobsThatGiveBack #ComplexNeeds #HousingCrisis
Who We Are
We’re part of Honeycomb Group, a team of social-minded brands championing happy homes in our region by providing services and support that help people across Staffordshire and its surrounding areas feel secure, connected and confident.
Homelessness isn’t a choice. It can happen to anyone.
Concrete is a local charity, support network and campaigner leading the fight to erase homelessness within Staffordshire and its surrounding areas.
Through a community-led approach, Concrete helps those without a plan, without a voice and without a home build concrete futures by tackling the underlying issues that keep
people from finding and securing a home of their own.
Join us on our fight to make homelessness history across Staffordshire and everywhere.
Why choose us
No Matter What Brand You're Working With Across The Honeycomb Group, You Can Trust Us To Look After You. Creating a Happy Home Doesn't Just Apply To Our Customers, It Applies To Our Staff Too. That's Why We Offer
A range of discounts at many high-street retailers and well-known brands.
Discounted gym membership at our head office and access to our cycle to work scheme – save money on bikes and equipment.
We offer flexible working, to help you manage your work-life balance.
Annual leave purchase scheme with two chances to join and boost your annual leave- you will also be entitled to time off for public holidays or paid days to take flexibly.
We also give all staff 'My Day'. Whether it’s celebrating a birthday, spending time with family or just taking a day off to relax. You can use your My Day for anything that really matters to you.
A commitment to your learning and development with a great onboarding experience, external events, conferences, coaching, training courses and support with professional qualifications.
Keep fit and save money with our cycle to work scheme. Purchase bikes and equipment through your salary and save on tax and national insurance contributions.
Our Employee Assistance Programme gives you free access to 24-hour phone counselling support, health advice and legal advice, 365 days a year and face-to-face counselling options.
Occupational Health services. Access to a range of services, including free eye tests and flu vaccinations.
We never shut the door
At Honeycomb Group we know that a Group full of people from diverse backgrounds and communities makes us better at what we do. This means building a more inclusive and diverse workplace and promoting equality for all regardless of what you look like, where you come from and who you love. We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from everyone. We will not discriminate against any applicant or employee because of race, ethnicity, age, gender, sexual orientation, disability or belief.
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