Job summary
- Main area
- Charity, Voluntary Sector, Volunteers, Social Value
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Compressed hours
- Job ref
- SVSVC
- Employer
- Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Priority House, Maidstone
- Town
- Maidstone
- Salary
- £29,970 - £36,483 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 04/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Volunteer & Social Value Coordinator
NHS AfC: Band 5
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
Why This Role, Why You?
Ready to lead change with your feet on the ground—and your ideas taking root? Join KMPT’s innovative green spaces and volunteering strategy. Help manage therapeutic projects that bring nature and care together for patients and volunteers.
Main duties of the job
What You’ll Do & What You’ll Bring
Manage Webb’s Garden, lead volunteering in East Kent, support fundraising and social value projects. You bring experience in volunteer management, leadership, and project delivery.
As Senior Volunteer & Social Value Coordinator, your work will support KMPT in our internal and broader system transformation roles to ensure we place the patient at the heart of everything we do. The role will contribute operationally to the formulation and delivery of the Trust and System strategic objectives including overseeing all the work programmes and projects related to the directorate portfolio – specifically our Green Spaces initiative.
Webb's garden is a volunteer led garden based in St Martins – Canterbury. It is a garden that has multiple purposes and is a valuable asset to the trust and charity alike. The garden is used as a therapeutic space for our inpatients – supported by the Occupational Therapy Teams at St Martins.
You will actively promote and raise the profile of volunteering & charity in partnerships with the team across the Trust and wider local health economy.
You will have experience in growing and managing volunteers, income generation for charitable and social value projects, and bring an ambitious approach to the growth of the our volunteering programme, social value and charitable activities, to support the transformation of services for our patients
Working for our organisation
Our Team & Culture
Join a warm, energetic team in the Transformation and Partnerships directorate. We value inclusion, flexibility and celebrating our volunteers and staff.
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.
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Key results/duties areas:
KEY RESULT AREAS:
30%: You will be responsible for the recruitment, placement and support of volunteers. This includes onboarding, supervision and building relationships with the teams.
30%: You will oversee the management the of Webb’s Garden, including the line management of a Garden Supervisor and Webb’s garden volunteers, whilst maintaining safety at the garden in line with HSE standards. You will be responsible for the development of the garden as a therapeutic and charitable space, ensuring the initiative is maintained and thriving.
20% You will support the growth and development of the greenspaces & social value across the charity and Trust, including securing funding and value add for projects. This will include assisting with the planning and delivery of projects, partnerships and funding streams, and the development of key monitoring and impact reporting tools.
20% You will support the promotion of social value and charitable activities within the Trust and externally - creating and disseminating communications as well as supporting internal and external engagement events.
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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