My Sighted Guide Partnership Officer Belfast, Northern Ireland
Job description
Reference
002484Publication end date
05/03/2023Employment Details
Contractual hours
35.00
Salary
Starting from £28,988 gross per annum + excellent benefits
Vacancy location
Location
Northern Ireland, Northern Ireland, Belfast
Vacancy details
Directorate
Operations - Scotland & Northern Ireland
Job Title
My Sighted Guide Partnership Officer
Job Level
Specialist Professional
Contract type
Permanent
External job advert
The My Sighted Guide Partnership Officer provides an exceptional person-centric service user experience, enabling people with sight loss to live the life they choose by acting as the champion and technical expert for My Sighted Guide services. They ensure My Sighted Guide sighted guiding services are available, when appropriate, to service users at all stages of their mobility journey.
We’re committed to enabling our staff to work where best suits the needs of the individual, their team and the organisation. We want our staff to flourish and work in environments which maximises their potential and best serves our stakeholders.
For this role you’ll be working 35 hours per week, worked 9am to 5pm, Monday to Friday. This is a home start role with a nominated office assigned dependant on your home location, travel will be involved across the region for this role.
We offer a generous pension scheme, annual leave, life assurance and enhanced pay for parenting and sickness leave. In addition, we provide an Employee Assistance Programme, flexible benefits package and discounts and cashback scheme to care for our people.
More details can be found in the attached candidate pack and job description.
We reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date.
Diversity
Guide Dogs welcomes applications from all sections of the community and actively encourages diversity to maximise achievements, creativity and good practice. We positively welcome and seek to ensure we achieve diversity in our workforce and that all job applicants and employees receive equal and fair treatment, regardless of age, race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, disability or nationality.
We encourage applications from people with disabilities as they are currently under-represented in the organisation and guarantee an invitation to interview for all applicants with disabilities who demonstrate, within their application form, sufficient evidence to meet the essential criteria for the job.
Safeguarding
Guide Dogs is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children, young people and adults at risk of harm with whom we work. We expect all our employees and volunteers to fully share this commitment.
Candidate profile
Essential
- Educated to post-secondary level with a minimum of 3 GCSE passes including Maths & English at grade C (or equivalent)
- Proven experience of volunteer management, supervision, and development.
- Experience of delivering training to groups and individuals in different formats.
- Relevant and recent skills and experience working in a safeguarding setting or having responsibility for the safeguarding of others, e.g. social care, education, health, police, voluntary sector safeguarding lead
- Recent and relevant experience of working within the children /vulnerable adults’ sector.
- Understands the importance of accessibility and usability in a training context.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Desirable
- Demonstrates an understanding of visual impairment issues and service requirements.
- Experience of working within the voluntary sector.
- Demonstrates an understanding of the voluntary sector.
- Demonstrates a knowledge of other disabilities.
For the complete list of essential and desirable criteria necessary to be successful in this role please see the Person Specification within the Job Description below. The candidate pack contains more information about this role & the recruitment process at Guide Dogs.
If you are successful you will need to provide evidence of your right to work in the UK. We cannot provide sponsorship for this role.
How to apply
If you have any accessibility issues, please contact our Recruitment Team on 0118 3540345 or [email protected].
Applications need to be made using the online application form, accessed using the ‘apply’ button above.
As part of your application ensure you provide evidence and examples of how your skills & experience meet the criteria as set out in the attached job description.
The system has a one-hour time limit. We would advise you to prepare your answers separately and then copy and paste into the online form once finalised.
If any mandatory fields are missed, a pop-up box will appear at the top of the page advising which sections require completion.
Please note that you’ll have to upload a CV as this is a mandatory requirement as part of our Safer Recruitment Policy.
Guide Dogs follow Safer Recruitment practices to ensure we are safeguarding the vulnerable people we work with. As part of this, we require a full work history with any gaps accounted for & a minimum of 2 professional referee details fully covering the past 5 years. If there is not enough space in your application form to provide this information, please ensure you upload additional documentation containing the additional detail.
Please contact our Recruitment Team on 0118 3540345 or [email protected] if you require any support with you application.
Application Closing Date
05/03/2023
