Senior Activities Coordinator - South Gloucestershire

The Role

DHI are recruiting for an Activities Coordinator who will support clients within South Gloucestershire who are engaged with our drug and alcohol recovery programmes. We are looking for people who can bring creativity and enthusiasm to shape the role to ensure that clients have access to activities across the 3 DHI hubs within South Gloucestershire.

You will be responsible for the development of the role, linking with local organisations and building on the activities currently delivered in DHI. You will be required to link with peers and clients to ensure that activities provided meet the need in order to promote recovery.

You will have the opportunity to work flexibly between home and DHI offices to support clients. The role is varied and interesting and requires you to work flexibly and dynamically.

Required to travel across South Glos and must be willing and legally able to drive and have use of a car that is insured for business use.

About You

At DHI we highly value transferable skills and life experience. If you have good organisational skills, solve problems, and are resilient, adaptable and flexible then we would love to hear from you.

Your background could be from anywhere where you have needed to apply problem solving and motivational skills. Teaching, ex-armed forces, customer service are all examples of just some professions where we believe these transferable skills are often found, or you may have lived experience.

Our Values

We are an award winning charity that challenges social exclusion by supporting people to achieve their potential and our values underpin this.

If you share DHI’s values of stimulation, self- direction and zest for life, then we encourage you to apply. We are also very interested to hear from people with transferable skills and lived experience.

What We Offer

You will have the opportunity to work flexibly between home and DHI offices and as an employee of DHI, you will have access to our Employee Assistance Programme, Cycle Scheme, 31 days annual leave (service related), company pension scheme, charity worker discounts and monthly reflective practice.

Next Steps

If you’d like to know more about the role contact Lisa Wheeler for an informal discussion. To apply please see below:

How to Apply

To apply for this role please provide a CV and covering letter and send to recruitment@dhi-online.org.uk by midday 29 November 2024.

Applications will be reviewed and interviews conducted on a rolling basis, vacancies may close before the deadline, so please apply early to avoid disappointment.

All applicants are required to submit a covering letter that should address the following questions in no more than 500 words maximum.

1. State how you meet the requirements within the Person Specification
2. What do our core values mean to you in relation to this role?

We strongly encourage you to complete our Equality & Diversity monitoring form to help us achieve a diverse workforce. The form does not form part of the selection process. Please also tell us where you saw the post advertised.