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Activities and Events Co-ordinator

Job details
Posting date: 04 July 2024
Salary: £24,355 per year
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 18 July 2024
Location: Wrexham, Wales
Remote working: On-site only
Company: Adferiad Recovery
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: AC205

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Summary

Activities and Events Co-ordinator

Adferiad Recovery delivers a flexible and coordinated response to the exceptional circumstances faced by people with co-occurring mental health and substance use conditions and related issues. Vulnerable people facing complex life challenges need consistent and seamless support to ensure they remain engaged with vital health and wellbeing services – and to prevent them becoming disenfranchised and isolated.

Hours: 37.5 hours per week (normally 9-5, but flexibility required)

Salary: £24,355.00 per annum

Holidays: 25 days per year plus 8 public holidays (pro rata)

Based at: To be discussed on appointment.

Covering: Denbighshire, Flintshire, and Wrexham

Project Overview:

Cyfle Cymru is a Peer Mentoring project which helps people develop confidence to make positive life changes, and provides support to access training, education, volunteering and employment. Our peer mentors draw on their own lived experience to support people affected by substance misuse and/or mental health conditions. Cyfle Cymru will support people aged 16 to 24 (Not in education, employment or training) and those 25+ that are economically inactive or long term unemployed.

Job Purpose:

Plan, organise, manage and coordinate various types of events which would fit the requirements of the Peer Mentoring project
To provide a detailed schedule of volunteer events, which include venues, timings and collection points
Manage various risks associated with volunteering and the events being held and maintain updated risk assessments
Develop links with local and national news papers to publicise the service
Develop and design content for a quarterly newsletter
Interviews for this vacancy will take place on the week commencing the 22nd July 2024.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

If you think you might have these skills, but are not 100% sure, please do still apply and let us decide. We know that certain groups rule themselves out of interesting opportunities, assuming that others will be more successful but please don't be that person. We want to hear from the widest cross section of the community.

Adferiad Recovery welcomes applications from everyone with the right to work in the UK, and values diversity in the workplace. All employees are required to act inclusively to encourage, promote, and cultivate our values, (such as rights affirming and cultural diversity).

Working towards becoming a Rights Affirming organisation, we actively encourage applications from people where the Person Specification calls for a particular qualification or experience, we will consider waiving these requirements if an applicant who could not achieve them because of a disability can demonstrate he/she would be capable of performing well in the job and fulfils the criteria in other respects.

FOR MORE INFORMATION, A FULL PERSON SPECIFICATION AND HOW TO APPLY, PLEASE GO TO OUR WEBSITE: http://adferiadrecovery.peoplehr.net/Pages/JobBoard/Opening.aspx?v=89517366-09f4-4eff-8bc3-5b1e944a4acf

If you have difficulty accessing this information or would like it in a different format, please contact our recruitment team at recruitment@adferiad.org or on 01492 863005

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