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Young People and Families Coordinator Wales

Employer
Versus Arthritis
Location
Cardiff (Caerdydd)
Salary
c£24,500 pa pro rata (£14,700 actual) + Benefits
Closing date
4 Nov 2018

Job Details

Location: Wales Office or Home based (within reasonable commute of UHW, Cardiff)
Hours: Part-time, 21 hours per week
Salary: c£24,500 pa pro rata (£14,700 actual) + Benefits
Contract type: Permanent
Closing date: midnight on Sunday 4 November 2018

Download the job description and person specification on our website.

Summary

Working with some of the country’s leading paediatric, adolescent and adult rheumatology clinics we are transforming the lives of young people diagnosed with arthritis. Our proven support activities work with young people’s clinical interventions and help rebuild confidence, social networks and social skills that can all suffer as a result of a diagnosis.

Funded by Children in Need, our young people and families ‘Beyond Limits’ service provides emotional support and peer support opportunities for young people with juvenile arthritis across south, mid and west Wales, helping them to take control of their condition, raise their aspirations and dramatically improve their future life prospects.

You will be joining a passionate team providing high quality services to people with arthritis across Wales. 

About the role

As a clear and engaging speaker, you will build relationships quickly face to face and over the phone. You will have experience recruiting, training and supporting youth volunteers.

There are diverse stake-holders for this service and you will be equally comfortable working with young people with disabilities, parents, volunteers, staff and clinicians.

The working week will be varied, and you will be adept at switching between multi-disciplinary team meetings in a hospital, parents support group and co-delivering / taking part in activity weekends.

Key requirements

  1. Educated to A’ level or equivalent
  2. Experience of working with young people who have long term conditions or disabilities and their families
  3. Experience of working with volunteers – particularly adolescent and young adult volunteers
  4. Experience of organising and delivering events and activities, including within residential settings
  5. Working knowledge of safeguarding and child protection policies and procedures
  6. Willingness and ability to vary core hours as needed as evening and weekend working will be required for effective service delivery

How to apply

To apply you MUST submit:  

  1. Completed application form, clearly demonstrating how you meet the key requirements and competencies set out in the job description and person specification - these can be found on our website.
  2. Email your completed application by midnight on Sunday 4 November.

Interviews

Interviews will be held on Monday 12 November 2018 in Cardiff

About us

Arthritis causes pain, fatigue and isolation for 10 million people in the UK every single day. It can impact on the ability to work, our relationships and take away our independence. We don’t accept this.

We are Versus Arthritis. We are volunteers, healthcare professionals, researchers and friends, all doing everything we can to push back against arthritis. We’re reaching out to everybody with the information and support they need, funding vital research and changing the way society sees arthritis. Together we’ll keep running, researching, influencing, volunteering, advising, chatting, baking, listening.  We won’t stop until no-one has to tolerate living with the pain, fatigue and isolation of arthritis. 

Join us and use your skills, knowledge, passion and energy to help us defy arthritis.

Read more about what we do, working for us and what we offer on our website.

Promoting Equality in the workplace

Versus Arthritis is a Registered Charity No: 207711 and in Scotland No. SC041156

Company

In 2017, Arthritis Care and Arthritis Research UK joined forces so that we could achieve more for people with arthritis. In September 2018, we became Versus Arthritis.

This is an exciting and special time in our story. As Versus Arthritis, we'll take the best from both our legacy organisations to create a movement standing with and for people with arthritis.
Here are a few key events that led us here.

1930s–1950s

In 1936, Arthritis Research UK began life as the Empire Rheumatism Council, set up by Dr Will Copeman and other like-minded doctors who were committed to stopping the pain of arthritis.

In 1947, Arthur Mainwaring-Bowen set up an organisation for people with arthritis and rheumatism which was registered as the British Rheumatic Association (BRA) in 1949. This organisation became later known as Arthritis Care.

In the 50s, Arthritis Research UK began to train doctors and medical students and educate the public about the impact of arthritis. They also produced their first information booklets on rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis.

Arthritis Care raised £1,135 in its first appeal for funds and as a result opened the first of many houses to accommodate people who needed care.

1960s–1980s

Research funded by Arthritis Research UK began to show that arthritis is neither simply a wear-and-tear condition nor an inevitable part of ageing.

Arthritis Care invested in more accommodation for people with arthritis, opening six warden-attended flats: the New Mayfair, Carlisle House and Burnlea Hotel. In 1985, Terry Wogan hosted the reception of the first Arthritis Care week.
In 1989, Arthritis Care opened its helpline and first shop was launched.

1990s–2000s

In the 1990s, research led by professors Sir Marc Feldmann and Sir Ravinder (Tiny) Maini at Arthritis Research UK’s Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology was responsible for the biggest breakthrough yet in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis. A key molecule that causes inflammation and joint damage – known as tumour necrosis factor or TNF – was uncovered.

This led to the development of a new class of drugs known as biological therapies, which have transformed treatment and lives of people with rheumatoid arthritis and other types of inflammatory arthritis over the past 20 years.

During this time, Arthritis Care developed over 500 branches across England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales. They launched a three-year programme of self-management courses, the UK's first parent support group conference and the UK's first conference for young people with arthritis.

The Duke of Westminster also awarded Arthritis Care volunteers for outstanding services for people with arthritis and launched the Going for Gold appeal, aiming to raise £5 million over three years for 10 initiatives improving quality of life.

Later on, the Arthritis Care roadshow visited 43 sites across the UK with 13,000 visitors and 1,000 volunteers. The Osteoarthritis Nation report was also launched. This study revealed that four out of five people with osteoarthritis live in constant pain.

Arthritis Care also launched their online community. This peer-to-peer online support service now has thousands of people with arthritis speaking and listening to each other and sharing their experiences about living with arthritis. 

In November 2017, Arthritis Research UK and Arthritis Care joined forces and merged as one organisation.

Now

We're Versus Arthritis. We’ve come together, taking the best of both organisations and our rich histories of working with and for people with arthritis to do even more.

We’re 10 million people living with arthritis. We’re fundraisers, supporters, bakers, health professionals, volunteers, campaigners and researchers. Together, we’re demanding that the pain and isolation of arthritis is no longer tolerated. We’re pushing to defy arthritis. We are Versus Arthritis. 

Join us and use your skills, knowledge, passion and energy to help us defy arthritis.

 

 

Company info
Website
Telephone
03007900400
Location
Copeman House
St. Mary’s Court
St. Mary’s Gate
Chesterfield
Derbyshire
S41 7TD
GB

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