Posted 03/09/2024
£22,000 - £24,000 per annum
Location: Swansea, Neath & Port Talbot
Salary: £22,000 - £24,000 per annum.
Hours: 36 hours per week
Reports to: Locality Manager
Overview:
The role will assist with both the direct operational delivery of Sight Life’s activities in the region, as well as supporting the management of efficient and effective operational systems and to provide some customer and partnership provider service support. This includes liaison with partner organisations and statutory service providers.
The post holder will need to demonstrate strong interpersonal skills and possess an ability to programme their workload and engagements effectively to be successful in the role.
Job Purpose
To work both independently and with volunteers (on an individual and group basis) to locally support blind and partially sighted people to maintain or improve their physical and emotional wellbeing and to enjoy independent and fulfilled lives. To ensure that the administration in the region allows operational delivery to function effectively.
Direct Operational Delivery:
Administration Support:
Equal Opportunities Statement
Sight Life is committed to being an equal opportunities organisation.
It is committed to promoting equal opportunities and preventing discrimination. This policy applies to both its service delivery and to its own employment practices. You will be willing and able to demonstrate commitment to our Equal Opportunities Policy.
Person Specification
Knowledge
Desirable
Skills
Special Conditions
Confidentiality
In view of the nature of the service and its users, the post holder is expected to maintain the highest level of confidentiality in all matters.
Sight Life (formerly Cardiff Institute for the Blind) provides a range of services across South Wales with the aim of ensuring blind and partially sighted people can enjoy an independent, active, and fulfilling social life.
We were set up in 1865, making us one of the oldest charities in Wales. In fact, we will celebrate our 150th anniversary in 2015! We are also very honoured to have rugby legend Sir Gareth Edwards as our President and Ceri Dupree as our patron.
We aim to locally support blind and partially sighted people to maintain or improve their physical and emotional wellbeing by providing advice and support to help people exercise, manage medication, eat healthily, increase confidence and self-esteem, give them a sense of security and future, and reduce incidents of falls and accidents.
We want people to enjoy independent and fulfilled lives by helping them to be part of a community, to take part in social and leisure activities, get out and about more, to be able and willing to shop alone, to visit friends, be digitally included, have more income and be able to manage money, to volunteer or work, and to take part in lifelong learning.
At our headquarters in Jones Court, Womanby Street, Cardiff, we have a products shop, IT training suite and an Activity Room, which is where many of our Cardiff clubs meet. You can also find many of the Cardiff and Vale team here, who can provide information, advice and an ear to listen.
Jones Ct, Womanby St, Cardiff CF10 1BR, United Kingdom
Cardiff Central Station 0.5 miles / 10 mins walk
St David's Centre OR Central Library stop on The Hayes