Job summary
- Main area
- Charity, Voluntary Sector, Volunteers, Social Value
- Grade
- Band 4
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 380-SS0668
- Employer
- Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Farm Villa
- Town
- Maidstone
- Salary
- £26,530 - £29,114 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 06/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Social Value Coordinator
Band 4
The CQC rates us as an Outstanding organisation for Caring with an overall rating of Good
Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT) offer a range of ongoing benefits to our valued workforce across the Trust. From an active health and wellbeing programme to regular recognition events, we work hard to provide varied benefits that make a difference to your work-life balance.
Would you like to work flexibly? In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you.
Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.
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Job overview
Looking for a role where no two days are the same—and where your impact will be felt across an entire NHS Trust?
We’re searching for a proactive and energetic Social Value Coordinator to help drive meaningful change across Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust. If you're passionate about volunteering, community engagement, and want to help build services that genuinely support our patients, families and staff—this is the opportunity for you.
Main duties of the job
- Coordinate our Volunteer Transport Scheme, promote the KMPT Charity and Volunteering service, manage communications and data. We’re looking for excellent communication, IT skills, admin or voluntary sector experience, and strong organisational ability.
- As Social Value Co-ordinator, your work will support Charity and Volunteer Services in delivering a high standard of service across KMPT. You will coordinate our Volunteer Transport Scheme – responding to enquiries and booking routes with drivers. You will assist with maintaining data bases that are integral for service reporting and governance. You will support on the recording, evaluation and promotion of volunteering and the charity.
- You will actively promote and raise the profile of volunteering an the charity in partnerships with the team across the Trust and wider local health economy
Working for our organisation
Come and work with us in the Garden of England where we combine exceptional professional development opportunities with a tremendous quality of life.
We are Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT), providing mental health, learning disability and specialist services, serving 1.8 million people in Kent and Medway, as well as specialist services for adults in Sussex and Surrey. We are rated Good overall by the CQC.
Each year we care for over 2,000 people in our hospitals and 54,000 people in the community.
We are proud to employ over 3,800 people from 66 nationalities, and to serve an increasingly diverse range of communities across rural and urban areas.
You will be joining friendly, passionate colleagues, rich in their diversity, who are committed to providing excellent care to our service users and their loved ones.
The nature of our work attracts kindness and compassion as standard and everyone from our cleaners and porters to the chief executive and chairman are recognised as playing a vital role in providing an exemplary service.
Our strategy
Our mission is what we set out to do every day
We deliver brilliant care through brilliant people
Our vision is where we want to be in the future
To provide outstanding care and to work in partnership to deliver this in the right place, for every service user, every time.
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The post holder must hold a full, valid, UK driving licence and have access to a car/vehicle to use for business purposes (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010).
Please refer to the attached job description for the full details on the responsibilities and person specification
Person specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Educated to Diploma level or equivalent relevant experience
- Good basic education, demonstrating high levels of literacy and numeracy. NVQ Level 3 or BTEC or equivalent experience
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of forming effective working relationships with colleagues in order to achieve common goals
- Ability to work independently, make informed decisions and achieve objectives whilst working with continually changing demands and priorities
Communication
Essential criteria
- Able to communicate through different online platforms comfortably whilst on duty
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Able to work and communicate with a mixed rage of clinical and nonclinical staff
Skills and Ability
Essential criteria
- Ability to manage sensitive communications
- Negotiating and Persuasive skills
- Proactive problem-solving ability
- Excellent organisational skills and an ability to multi-task
- Range of IT skills and experience in using Microsoft Word and Excellent Excel systems
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience gained in an organisational position in the voluntary sector or multi-disciplined organisation
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Kirsty Mcinnes
- Job title
- Charity & Volunteer Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07860342491
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