Hub Support Worker
hace 8 días
Neath
Full time/ 35 hours a week (flexible working considered) Are you a motivated and compassionate individual with a passion for supporting people to overcome barriers and achieve their potential? Do you have experience working with volunteers or learners and engaging people from diverse backgrounds? If so, St Giles Trust is looking for a Support Worker to play a key role in delivering an exciting community heritage project in partnership with the National Trust. About St Giles Trust An ambitious, well-established charity that helps people facing adversity to find jobs, homes and the right support they need. Central to our ethos is our belief that people with first-hand experience of successfully overcoming issues such as an offending background, homelessness, addictions and gang involvement, hold the key to positive change in others. About the Project This innovative new project will create opportunities for people who are often excluded from heritage and community spaces. Working in partnership with the National Trust at Aberdulais, the project will: • Recruit, train and support new volunteers using our lived experience peer-led model, • Deliver community events and activities to engage local people and visitors, • Increase access to heritage and nature, improving wellbeing You will: • Support the recruitment and onboarding of volunteers, • Help deliver heritage training sessions and develop learning resources, • Provide one-to-one and group support to volunteers, • Assist with the planning and delivery of community events and activities, • Promote the project and support outreach and engagement, • Maintain accurate records and contribute to monitoring and reporting, • Work with partners and referral organisations to identify and support participants, • Experience supporting volunteers, learners or service users in an advisory, training or support capacity, • Ability to build positive relationships with people from diverse backgrounds, • Strong communication and interpersonal skills, • Good organisational and administrative skills, including record-keeping, • Ability to work collaboratively with colleagues and external partners In return, you can expect a competitive salary, generous leave allowance, staff pension, access to clinical supervision, flexible working, a mentoring programme, an advice and counselling service, season ticket loan and much more. We are an equity and inclusion confident employer. We welcome all applications, and we particularly encourage applications from people of the global majority (black, brown, multi- heritage) and those who identify as disabled, neuroexpansive, neurodiverse, with any protected characteristics and/or social barriers or challenges. We value the empowering and informative impact that all lived experiences and diversity of thought can offer the organisation. St Giles will guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria set out in the Job Description for the vacancy. Closing date: 9 am on 07 May 2026 Interview date: TBC