Job Details
Family Support Coordinator
Back Up
Latest Job
Expires in 3 days
Overview
Are you passionate about making sure people get the support they need to transform their lives?
From £25,500 to £29,500
per year, pro rata, depending on experience
Part time, Temporary, Hybrid
(17. 5 hours per week, 12 month fixed term contract (with potential to extend subject to funding))
Home or office based, but with occasional travel around the UK as required, to include Salisbury Spinal Cord Injuries Centre. Occasional visits to the Back Up office in Wandsworth, London and surrounding area.
Key information
Are you motivated to facilitate peer support for people affected by spinal cord injury?
If so, Back Up could offer you an inspiring and fulfilling role making a significant difference to the lives of people affected by spinal cord injuries.
About the role
When a family member sustains a spinal cord injury it is a life changing experience for the whole family. They can feel very isolated and that no one understands what they’re going through.
Back Up’s Family Support Service is there to help. We enable a wide range of family members of all ages whose loved one is affected by spinal cord injury (SCI) to improve their wellbeing, build a support network and transform their lives through Back Up’s services.
The Family Support Coordinator will assist in supporting family members on an individual basis as well as in group settings as appropriate, together with providing support in the process of identifying, recruiting and training new family support volunteers.
Guaranteed Interview Scheme
As a ‘Disability Confident’ employer we are committed to the inclusion of candidates and employees with disabilities. If you have a disability and meet the minimum criteria of the role, set out as essential criteria in the job description, we will invite you to interview.
Note: if the vacancy receives a high-volume number of applicants that far exceeds the number of those expected, we will make a decision about the overall number of interviews offered. Of these, a proportionate number of interviews will be offered to disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria, in the same way that applications from non-disabled people that meet the general criteria will also be limited.
Please let us know if you would qualify and want to take advantage of this scheme by emailing: recruitment@backuptrust.org.uk.
Requirements
A Family Support Coordinator will be comfortable and efficient with data management and GDPR compliance.
Lived experience of having a relative with SCI is essential, together with sharing our commitment to transform the lives of everyone affected by spinal cord injury.
Don’t meet every single requirement?
At Back Up we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every criteria in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles at Back Up.