Hub Support Worker

Are you a motivated and compassionate individual with a passion for supporting people to overcome barriers and achieve their potential? Do you have experience working with volunteers or learners and engaging people from diverse backgrounds? 

If so, St Giles Trust is looking for a Support Worker to play a key role in delivering an exciting community heritage project in partnership with the National Trust. 

About the Project 
This innovative new project will create opportunities for people who are often excluded from heritage and community spaces. Working in partnership with the National Trust at Aberdulais, the project will: 

• Recruit, train and support new volunteers using our lived experience peer-led model  

• Deliver community events and activities to engage local people and visitors  

• Increase access to heritage and nature, improving wellbeing  

• Build a more diverse and sustainable volunteer base to support the future of the site  

About this key role 
You will support the delivery of community engagement activities and help recruit, train and support volunteers at the Aberdulais Community Heritage Hub. Working as part of a small, supportive team, you will play a hands-on role in helping individuals build confidence, develop skills and progress into volunteering opportunities. 

You will: 

• Support the recruitment and onboarding of volunteers  

• Help deliver heritage training sessions and develop learning resources  

• Provide one-to-one and group support to volunteers  

• Assist with the planning and delivery of community events and activities  

• Promote the project and support outreach and engagement  

• Maintain accurate records and contribute to monitoring and reporting  

• Work with partners and referral organisations to identify and support participants  

• Support volunteers to progress into further opportunities 

What we are looking for 

• Experience supporting volunteers, learners or service users in an advisory, training or support capacity 

• Ability to build positive relationships with people from diverse backgrounds  

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills  

• Good organisational and administrative skills, including record-keeping  

• Ability to work collaboratively with colleagues and external partners  

• Confidence managing workload, deadlines and reporting requirements  

Please note: this role requires a Basic DBS check. 

In return, you can expect a competitive salary, generous leave allowance, staff pension, access to clinical supervision, flexible working, a mentoring programme, an advice and counselling service, season ticket loan and much more. 

We are an equity and inclusion confident employer. We welcome all applications, and we particularly encourage applications from people of the global majority (black, brown, multi- heritage) and those who identify as disabled, neuroexpansive, neurodiverse, with any protected characteristics and/or social barriers or challenges. We value the empowering and informative impact that all lived experiences and diversity of thought can offer the organisation. 

St Giles will guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria set out in the Job Description for the vacancy. 

If you have any queries, or require further support, please contact HR@stgilestrust.org.uk