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Barnwood Trust is not your typical funder. We drive change so that disabled people and people with mental health conditions have choice of opportunities, access their rights, and are included where they live. We bring people together for a different conversation and explore big ideas. Through learning and collaboration, we influence the change that’s needed. By partnering with local organisations, involving people with lived experience directly in our work, and looking for better ways to fund, Barnwood makes a difference in Gloucestershire.

As part of this work, our Engagement Team facilitates Barnwood Circle, a network of people who want Gloucestershire to be a better place for disabled people and people with mental health conditions. Barnwood Circle is the Trust’s outreach programme – a way for members to inform Barnwood’s work by sharing experiences and ideas, and co-designing projects with us.

We are looking for an Involvement & Participation Manager to provide management, development, and overall delivery oversight of our Barnwood Circle membership scheme, and to manage the team responsible for making connections and facilitating its membership. This includes our project work with Experts by Lived Experience designed to help shape Barnwood Trust’s work to create change in Gloucestershire.

We want to diversify our team to better reflect the work and communities we support – this means we would particularly welcome applications from people who:

• have lived experience of disability and/or mental health conditions
• are from Black, Asian and minoritised backgrounds.

We want our application process to be right for you as an individual. If there’s anything we can do to make this process more straightforward for you, please contact us to discuss what support we may be able to provide.

Our careers page on our websitehas some examples of things we may be able to put in place for people who request extra support. Should you have any questions or require any of the following information in a different format we would be happy to hear from you.

Contract Terms:

1 x Full Time (Permanent Contract)

• This role is permanent, and we welcome applications from people looking for full time hours (37.5hrs per week). We offer a flexible start between 8am and 9.30am Monday to Friday.
• Salary £39,820 p/a.
• 36 days holiday inc. bank holidays.
• This position is based in our office in central Cheltenham with occasional opportunities for home working.

Summary of Key Duties:

Management of Barnwood’s engagement activity with disabled people and people with mental health conditions

• Develop and manage the team to make connections with people across Gloucestershire. Ensure proactive engagement of those with the most complex needs and experiences of marginalisation.
• Responsibility for the ongoing design, scheduling, and delivery of Barnwood Circle events and activities to ensure membership is equitable, transparent, and fair for all.
• Devise, implement, and review, a demand management policy and process to ensure the scheme is sustainable and fit for purpose.

Management of Barnwood’s Experts by Lived Experience project work

• Lead and/or oversee both the design, development, and delivery of a wide range of involvement and participation activities with Experts by Lived Experience, and the creation and implementation of engagement principles, aligned with Barnwood’s purpose and values.
• Provide lead facilitation for projects involving Experts by Lived Experience, ensuring appropriate support and guidance regarding agreements and payments.
• Provide advice and guidance on inclusive facilitation practices to the wider Barnwood Trust team and Learning Programme.

Line management responsibilities

• Provide line management to a team of 5, ensuring employees are motivated, supported, working safely and enabled to give of their best.
• Contribute to the design and implementation of team development work within the Engagement Team in collaboration with the Head of Engagement.

Key Experience and Skills

• Knowledge and experience of creating and delivering engagement and participation strategies and plans for a diverse audience.
• Knowledge and experience of inclusive facilitation practice, catering to diverse needs and communication styles.
• Exceptional group facilitation skills.
• Excellent communication and organisational skills.
• Proven success in leading teams to deliver to a clear framework and deliver agreed results.
• Ability to oversee your team, planning and prioritising work.
• Ability to cope with the unpredictable and manage time effectively to meet internal and external deadlines.
• Strong self-awareness, enabling the establishment and maintenance of excellent working relationships with a wide range of people using tact, diplomacy, and sensitivity.
• Strong IT skills (demonstrable proficiency in using MS Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint).
• Creativity, flexibility, and adaptability.
• Access to transport.

Benefits

• Work within an organisation that is committed to improving equality and diversity.
• Competitive salaries and fantastic pension contribution rates.
• Excellent personal development plan and extensive training which includes a commitment to training employees to be confident when working with people with a wide variety of impairments, disabilities, and mental health conditions.
• Friendly and collaborative working culture; everyone’s voice is heard.
• We have a range of supportive wellbeing policies and almost a third of our employees, are qualified mental health first aiders with Mental Health England.
• Our offices in central Cheltenham are wheelchair accessible, have free accessible parking on site and great facilities.
• Assistance dogs are welcome.

Guidance On Applications

For full guidance on how to make an online application and what you should include within it, it is recommended that you read the job pack attached which also provides a full and detailed job description and person specification.

Guaranteed Interview

In the application pack we describe some ‘essential skills or experience’ (a few things we really need the person applying to be able to do). If you have a disability (this includes mental health or long-term health conditions) and have these essential skills or experiences, we will guarantee you an interview.

To be invited to interview or assessment in this way, you must detail in the answers to our ‘Competency Questions’ document how you meet the essential criteria for the role and then check the box next to the question asking if you would like your application to be considered for this.

A request under the guaranteed interview scheme does not guarantee an applicant a job. At interview, the best candidate will be offered the role. If you are invited to interview you will receive your invite and we’ll ask you about any reasonable adjustments that you may need.

Closing date, interviews and start date:

• Deadline for applications: 12.00 noon on Wednesday 28th June 2023.
• First interviews: Monday 10th and Tuesday 11th July 2023.
• Second stage interviews: Friday 14th July 2023.

Job Type: Full-time

Salary: £39,820.00 per year

Benefits:

• Bereavement leave
• Company pension
• Enhanced maternity leave
• Enhanced paternity leave
• Free flu jabs
• Free parking
• On-site parking
• Sick pay

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Work Location: In person

Application deadline: 28/06/2023
Reference ID: IPM 062023