Local Area Coordinator

Job title:

Local Area Coordinator

Company

Derby City Council

Job description

Directorate: Place
Hours: 37 per week
Contract Type: Maternity cover to 4 April 2025
Location: The Council House and designated bases within your locality

Derby City Council strives to deliver the best outcomes for its residents and their communities. Our vision:

That every person in Derby should be able to live in a place they call home, with the people and things that they love; being part of a community where they look out for one another, doing the things that matter to them.

Our Local Area Coordinators are passionate about working alongside communities supporting them to achieve their vision of a good life. Working within one of our multi-disciplinary Locality Teams, you will cover the city centre and parts of Abbey and Arboretum electoral wards. We want people who can see the positives and strengths presented by an area that has diverse communities and high levels of deprivation.

We are looking for people with:

• Experience and/or skills to work alongside and support a diverse range of people, including those experiencing mental health issues, older people, people with physical disabilities, families, carers and their local communities
• An understanding and practical experience of advocacy and supporting people to plan for their future in a strength-based way
• Experience and ability to work with a broad range of professionals within the health and social care sector as well as elected members, community leaders, third sector, voluntary, community and faith sectors as well as other organisations and services.
• An ability to demonstrate self-awareness and reflection in relationships with others
• An understanding of and commitment to, the principles and values of Local Area Coordination
• Commitment to support our public services to learn, understand and transform so they are integrated, person centred, and co-produced with communities
• Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to work confidently in challenging environments
• Excellent communications skills with the ability to analyse data and produce clear and concise written reports.
• Commitment to building and developing relationships and recognise this is the key to working with communities and partners.
• Take introductions from services, organisations and local people, support people in the local area to stay strong, build their personal capacity and prevent any need for service interventions by building on their strengths and natural support through local relationships, to ‘Prevent, Reduce and Delay’ service intervention.

This role presents an exciting opportunity for personal and professional development that can lead to a number of career progression routes. Candidates demonstrating the right approach along with the calibre of qualities and skills required, will be supported with training and development opportunities to strengthen their ability to undertake the role.

For further information or an informal discussion please contact Sarah Edmundson on 07812 300759 or Sarah Dosunmu on 01332 643041.

The deadline for applications is Friday 16th February 2024 at midnight. Any applications received after the closing date will not be accepted. You must ensure you provide a supporting statement within your application which reflects how you meet the requirements of the person specification for this post, applications that do not comply with this requirement will not be shortlisted.

More information on Local Area Coordination can be found at Local Area Coordination Network –

There will be a two stage interview process.
1. A community assessment on 26th February 2024 (date to be confirmed) at a community venue.

2. For those who pass the community assessment, a panel interview on 29th February 2024 (date to be confirmed) at The Council House, Corporation Street, Derby

Important Information
Links to the full Job Description and Person Specification are below.

As part of our safer recruitment checks the successful candidate will be subject to an enhanced DBS check.

All employees will normally be appointed to the minimum of the grade for the job.

Before you complete your application form please read our .

Remember to align your personal statement to the essential criteria in the Person Specification.

Please be aware that where there are colleagues within the organisation who are ‘at risk’ of redundancy, requirements to redeploy to another suitable role will apply and take priority.

Equality, Diversity & Inclusion
We are a fair and inclusive employer and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds. We recruit for diversity and value difference. As many of our roles can now be home-based, we are able to offer more opportunities for people who need this facility.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. If you are a disabled person, you have the choice to apply under our Guaranteed Interview Scheme so long as you demonstrate that you meet the essential requirements for the job.

We feel it is essential that we recruit a talented workforce that is as diverse as the community we work for.

Please let us know of any individual requirements or reasonable adjustments you may have during the application, interview, or onboarding process and we’ll do all we can to help. We strongly believe in social understanding of disability and for us it’s all about removing barriers to equality.

If you have any questions regarding this vacancy or are having difficulty applying, please contact our Recruitment Team on 01332 640844 (Relay UK – 18001 01332 640 844) or at .

Expected salary

£38223 – 42403 per year

Location

Derby

Job date

Thu, 01 Feb 2024 00:18:14 GMT

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