Job Title: Volunteering Coordinator
Location: Blackheath, London, SE3 0PW
Salary: £14.96 per hour
Job Type: Part time (21 hours a week)
About Morden College:
Morden College is a Charity dedicated to supporting older people. Founded in 1695 by the pioneering merchant, Sir John Morden, the Charity has been at the forefront of enriching older people’s lives for more than 300 years. Today the Charity’s core purpose is to provide older people who are in need with a home for life, to support them as they grow older, and to provide housing, care, and support, including residential nursing care, if the need arises. We are a strong community, committed to enabling the older people we support to have the highest quality of life, for the rest of their life.
The Charity’s Community Services are provided in the Almshouse accommodation on site at Blackheath and at Ralph Perring Court in Beckenham, through the vibrant communal space in the John Morden Centre and the case management approach that proactively identifies, assesses, and supports the most vulnerable in our community.
About the Role:
Your role will be to coordinate volunteer activity within the College including: onboarding, training and day-to-day coordination and support of volunteer activity. You will be a point of contact for Morden College volunteers (internal and external) in support of their activities as well as the conduit for communication to volunteers and prospective volunteers via newsletters and similar communication platforms.
It’s important that you’re proactive and seek out opportunities, coordinate community hiring and support the management team where needed.
Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities:
- Ensure that all volunteers adopt and maintain a person-centred approach to the delivery of high-quality services and uphold the principle that each individual is at the centre of our services and the support they require.
- Provide support and training on the supervision and coaching of volunteers including recruitment, induction, training and development, performance management and retention, and following volunteer policies and procedures. Ensuring fair and proportionate treatment of volunteers where issues arise.
- Have a ‘can do’ approach which focuses on what matters to individual beneficiaries, think and act creatively to make things happen for them.
- Thank laterally and strategically to ensure Morden College uses people interested in volunteering in the best way possible, ensuring their needs are met as well as uncovering unknown skills, making connections, and pointing people to opportunities to use their skills to the maximum.
- Keep abreast of developments in volunteering and best practice, changes in Employment Law and DBS Disclosure as they relate to volunteer management. Explore different approaches to risk management with individual volunteering roles and service development.
- Encourage and engage in harmonious and respectful working with other departments and internal stakeholders, enabling a holistic and efficient service is provided to beneficiaries.
- Comply with safeguarding and other internal procedures for reporting incidents, ensuring compliance with date protection regulations at all times.
- To undertake any other duties at the request of the line manager which are commensurate with the role, including project work, absence cover and taking part in college events.
The Candidate:
- You must be proficient in the use of various computer systems and databases including Microsoft Office and online publishing
- You must have previous experience of working in volunteer management, community development and an understanding of community networks and citizenship.
- An inclusive and supportive management style. Experience of communicating with a variety of audiences.
- Has vision, is authentically warm, genuine, trustworthy, honest, reliable, consistent, and caring in all their actions and supports this culture within the organisation.
- A well-developed sense of their own behaviours and how they impact on others
Benefits:
We will provide you with 25 days’ holiday plus bank holidays (pro-rata for part-time roles), additional holidays for long service, an enhanced pension, free onsite parking, a 24/7 employee assistance programme, life assurance and flexible working.
The College actively encourages individuals to expand their knowledge and understanding to the benefit of all parties, and actively supports CPD opportunities through a generous learning and development budget.
Please visit Morden College direct website to read the full job advert, the job description and the person specification before applying.
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Candidates with the relevant experience or job titles of: Senior Support Worker, Care Manager, Support Provision Supervisor, Support Manager, Senior Carer, Care Team Manager, Support Supervisor, Senior Care Worker, Assistant Service Manager, Social Care Manager, Support Worker, Carer, Care Support, Care Assistant, Social Worker, LSW, LSA, Support Assistant, Special Needs Support, Mental Health Support, Autism Support will be considered for this role.
