Community Champion

Job Role: Community Champion
Reporting to : Children & Families Service Manager
Salary: £13.57 per hour and £15.54 including Holiday Pay
Hours of work : This is a casual role and the number of hours per week/month are service dependent.
Location: Office space will be based at Brian Jackson House, New North Parade, Huddersfield, HD1 5JP. However, you will mainly work remotely, within the community across Kirklees.

The Charity

Fresh Futures is a regional charity working with vulnerable and disadvantaged children, young people and their families, within Kirklees and surrounding areas. Our vision is that all young people have opportunities for a better life, now and in the future. We are thought leaders and together with partners, we deliver outcomes through four interwoven strands of activity - providing education services and facilities, building healthy relationships, promoting health and wellbeing and improving employability skills.

Purpose of the job

Why the role exists and overall responsibility

• The Community Champions are part of the Communities Team within Children and Family Services at Fresh Futures. They work directly in Community spaces, carrying out outreach to raise awareness of current health initiatives, local services, and the support offered by Fresh Futures. With up-to-date knowledge of what's happening across Kirklees, the Community Champions can signpost residents to the activities, services and organisations that best meet their needs.
• As a Community Champion, you will play a key role in connecting people with vital health and welfare information, offering practical support, and helping communities thrive. You will engage with individuals and groups to raise awareness of important health and wellbeing topics, provide practical checks where appropriate, collect insight, and connect people to relevant services. You will also help shape future activity by feeding back learning, themes, case studies, quotes and photos where possible. This is a people-facing role requiring empathy, strong communication skills, patience, and the ability to build trust with participants from diverse backgrounds.

Main Activities

Community Engagement

• To support the Fresh Futures Communities Team during their outreach work across Kirklees.
• To promote and increase awareness of health initiatives/services and other relevant Community health topics.
• To support Fresh Futures events delivered by the Communities Team and attend community events and meetings as a representative of Fresh Futures.
• Arrange and participate in Community sessions, events and outreach activities to share information and resources.
• To collect relevant data of your engagement activity to feed into monitoring reports.
• Signpost participants to relevant services and support pathways as needed.
  
• Collect feedback and insight from participants, identifying key themes and barriers.
• Share insight and learning with the team to inform future activity and planning.
• Document and submit relevant case studies, participant quotes and photos (with consent).

Training & Development

• Take part in training sessions related to Community Champion work and ongoing skills development.

Benefits & Support

• Ongoing training and development opportunities.
• Support from the Communities Team.
• The chance to make a real difference in people's lives and strengthen Community wellbeing.

Knowledge, training and experience required

This role would suit someone with an interest in public health, health inequalities and community development work. There isn't a need for previous knowledge as full relevant training and support will be provided. We welcome applications from individuals who speak Community languages, represent the diverse Communities of the Kirklees area, and/or come from minority ethnic backgrounds.

Key Personal Characteristics

• To uphold Fresh Futures values - be inclusive, empowering, caring, trusted and approachable in all aspects of your role.
• To be flexible and reliable
• Treat everyone with respect, acting fairly, honestly and considerately.
• Always maintain confidentiality and impartiality.
• Applicants should show confidence speaking to new people and have good communication and listening skills. They should be able to answer basic queries and signpost/repeat information based on the training and information provided by Fresh Futures.
• Able to work independently and as part of a Team.
• Knowledge of the Kirklees area would be preferred

#J-18808-Ljbffr