Contract Type: Permanent
Role Type: Employment
Hours: Full time
Application deadline:
Based: Gateshead
Salary: £31,315 Per Annum
Salary Type: Fixed Salary
Location: Tyne and Wear
Role description: Project Support
We are looking for a passionate and engaging Community Trainer to join our Advice Team and help strengthen the skills and knowledge of frontline staff and volunteers across the voluntary, community, faith, and statutory sectors.
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced trainer who is motivated by social impact and enjoys working directly with communities and partner organisations.
What you’ll be doing
As Community Trainer, you’ll design and deliver accessible training to help frontline workers and volunteers support residents affected by the cost of living (including benefits, debt and energy costs). You’ll work with partners to identify needs, maintain a relevant programme and build confidence and practical skills across the community sector.
You’ll deliver sessions online and in community venues across Gateshead, adapting content for different audiences. You’ll meet delivery targets, use feedback to improve, keep accurate records, and support colleagues and volunteers involved in training.
You’ll build relationships across voluntary, community, faith and statutory organisations, strengthening capacity and spotting emerging issues. You’ll contribute to internal training, feed insight into social policy work, and champion equality, diversity and inclusion. Flexibility is needed to support delivery across a 7-day service.
What we’re looking for
You’ll have experience designing and delivering training, understand the challenges facing Gateshead communities, and bring strong communication, facilitation and partnership-building skills.
You’ll be confident using ICT and keeping accurate records, able to tailor your approach to different audiences, and flexible to support delivery across a 7-day service.
If you’re an enthusiastic trainer who cares about community empowerment and social impact, we’d love to hear from you.
Why choose to work for us?
We're looking for a talented people to help us achieve our vision of a fair society for all, with lives well-lived. We're committed to putting clients' needs first through our core values and culture by standing up against injustices, driving innovation and change, and taking ownership of actions, all aimed at creating a tangible and positive impact on people's lives.
Being your whole self in the workplace
Learning and Development - through our Brilliance programme you will access training, workshops and coaching to develop your skills and knowledge both within and beyond your job role, so you can be your best self at work and in all aspects of your life.
The important stuff
As a forward-thinking organisation our colleagues enjoy the benefits of the 4-day week initiative*. Subject to successfully completing probation. We are looking at new ways of working to deliver a positive impact on our clients and colleagues. Our teams are motivated to maintain productivity measures and are enjoying the extra flexibility.
22 days plus bank holidays, rising after 2 years’ service *pro rated
Health & well-being of our colleagues is our priority. We have achieved Gold status ‘Better Health at Work Award’.
You can join to our Employee Assistance scheme giving you access to free Health advice, counselling services and legal guidance.
Applying for a new job can be daunting so if you would like to chat to someone to find out more, please get in touch we would love to hear from you!
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Work Location: In person
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