Activities/Peer Mentor Coordinator

Activities Coordinator/Peer Mentor

Yorkshire, Kirklees

Permanent, Full Time (37.5 hours per week)

£12.61 to £13.36 per hour (salary £24,664 to £26,123 per annum) plus great benefits including Health Cash Plan!

Home, a place where you belong

Want to be part of a team that really cares and empowers you to help change a customer’s life for the better? Here at Kirklees Homeless Service (known locally at Clare House), we are a 24/7 service supporting our 22 customers who were homeless, to successfully move into permanent accommodation.

If that wasn’t enough you will also continue Peer mentor support once they have moved on.

You’ll make a big difference each day as you help our customers achieve their hopes and aspirations. Amazing we know!

Typical day as an Activities Coordinator/ Peer Mentor Coordinator


* You’ll design and deliver an engaging calendar of wellbeing activities, social events, outings and of course having lots of fun!


* You’ll be promoting a culture of engagement, social inclusion and wellbeing, supporting our customers to live meaningful and happy lives.


* You’ll have the opportunity to define your own role (you’re not stepping into anyone’s shoes), so you’ll be able to use your creative spark to deliver activities for our customers with their input.


* Your events will ensure that there is always something going on to engage customers, supporting their wellbeing, independence as well as keeping active.


* You’ll be working alongside partner organisations, volunteers and our colleagues to deliver high quality personalised retirement to our customers, developing bespoke care plans and shaping our wider community offer.

 

Fancy going home each day knowing that you have helped change our customers lives for the better? You’ll do that here, we're in the top 10 for Great Places to Work in the UK!

 

You bring


* You’ll have a creative spark and passion to really make a difference to customers’ lives.  


* You’ll have experience of working in a similar service achieving positive outcomes through support activities and intervention.   


* You’ll be confident and experienced in delivering both one-to-one and group activities with customers, developing bespoke support plans which addresses individual needs and aspirations.


* If you can get where our customers are in their lives, are able to unleash their potential and can inspire them to achieve positive outcomes, then we would love to hear from you.

Due to limits on our current certificates of sponsorship, we are not able to offer sponsorship to external candidates for this role.  This remains under regular review.

Our team 

You'll be working with Karla, our Senior Clients Service Manager who enjoys cooking, walking, reading and watching Netflix true crime documentaries! We have a mixture of Coordinators, Support Workers, Peer Mentors and Mental Health leads so you’ll have plenty of supp...