Regional Officer - North West England

Location (UK): North West England
Hours: Full-time, 35 hours per week
Salary: £29,016 per annum
Benefits: Read more about the excellent benefits we offer
Contract type: Permanent
Travel: Frequently across the region and occasionally to attend meetings/events across UK
Closing date: 23:59 hours, Monday 05 August 2024

Join us and use your skills, knowledge, passion and energy to help us achieve a future free from arthritis.

Our Services and Influencing Directorate is a supportive team, passionate about providing high-quality services to people with arthritis, helping people to take greater control of their condition and to make positive, informed choices to live well with arthritis.

We are looking to develop our services in the North West of England to be able to offer services to people living with arthritis and chronic pain.

About the role

The service offers peer-led self-management and physical activity courses both within communities and online. Courses are designed to support people to develop the confidence, knowledge, and skills to live well with their condition.

You will help us to develop and pilot services for young people transitioning from our Young People and families service to adult services.

You will help us to ensure our services reach diverse communities in the North West, by co-producing resources and testing ways of working.

You will co-ordinate all aspects of the Versus Arthritis service, including recruiting volunteers, course promotion and building relationships in the community. You will be responsible for supporting volunteers to deliver services, as well as monitoring and evaluation so that we can effectively demonstrate the impact the service is making.

About you

If your knowledge, skills and experience include the following then we’d love to hear from you.

To be successful in the role, you will be committed to the Versus Arthritis values and behaviours as well as having:

Experience of delivering services within the voluntary sector.
Experience of supporting volunteers.
Experience of building and maintaining relationships with local organisations and stakeholders, to develop effective partnerships.
Experience of service monitoring, evaluation and delivering reports to meet targets.
Strong communication skills – both written and verbal, and experience of presenting in front of groups of people.
Strong administrative and IT skills – including Microsoft Excel and Outlook.
Strong organisational skills and the ability to prioritise work effectively.

Download the job description and person specification for the Regional Officer – North West England role (Word 47KB).

Benefits

Your excellent benefits include:

Flexible hours, environments and working practices to promote a healthy work/life balance.
Health and wellbeing support – including the Employee Assistance Programme (free confidential 24/7 support with mental health, legal and financial queries).
Simplyhealth cash plan.
Supportive and inclusive culture, with a wide range of employee networks and support groups available to join.
Learning and personal development opportunities.
Competitive annual leave, with the option to buy/sell up to five days per year.
Generous pension plan, with employer contribution of up to 10%.
Life Assurance plan (4 x salary).

How to apply

You must be based, and hold the right to work, in the UK to apply for this position.

To apply you MUST submit:

a concise, up-to-date CV
along with a completed Application form (Word 41.2KB) demonstrating how you meet the key requirements set out in the job description and person specification for the Regional Officer North West England role (Word 47KB). All sections must be completed.

Email both documents as Word or PDF attachments by 23:59 hours, Monday 05 August 2024 to recruitment@versusarthritis.org. If you have a health condition that prevents you from following the steps above, please email us regarding alternative ways to apply. 

Application deadline and shortlisting 

We advise candidates to apply early as we reserve the right to close applications ahead of this date.  
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

We do not wish to receive contact from agencies or media sales. 

Interview

Interview dates to be confirmed.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we guarantee you will be offered an interview if you disclose a disability and demonstrate sufficient evidence within your application that you meet the essential criteria for this role. We will also make any reasonable adjustments you may require for your interview.

About us

We have made a commitment in our Diversity and Inclusion Strategy to increase the diversity of our charity and we welcome candidates from a wide variety of backgrounds and experiences. We want our employees, volunteers and trustees to represent the broad diversity of the communities of which we are a part.

There are over 10 million people living with arthritis. That’s one in six, with over half of those living in pain every single day. The impact is huge as the condition slowly intrudes on everyday life – affecting the ability to work, care for a family, to move free from pain and to live independently. Yet arthritis is often dismissed as an inevitable part of ageing or shrugged off as ‘just a bit of arthritis’. We don’t think that this is OK. Versus Arthritis is here to change that.

Versus Arthritis is committed to keeping children, young people and vulnerable adults safe from harm. During the recruitment process we will undertake safer recruitment practices and relevant checks to ensure applicants are suitable to work with children, young people and vulnerable adults.