Role Profile

Job title:                               CallER Collective Befriender x 3 Posts

Location:                              HEY Smile Foundation, Hull (providing support across the East Riding)

Reports to (Job Title):           CallER Collective Coordinator 

Salary scale:                         £10 per hour

Working Hours:                    

• Post 1: 30 Hours per week, Monday – Friday
• Post 2: 18 Hours per week, Monday – Friday
• Post 3: 18 Hours per week, Monday – Friday

Contract Duration:                12 months with potential for extension subject to funding

Closing date:                        Midnight – 31st October 2021

Interview date:                      8th – 9th November 2021

There has never been a more exciting time to join the HEY Smile Foundation team. Our work spans across the Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise Sector (VCSE), as well as connecting opportunities with the private and public sector.

We are connected, joining assets to community knowledge, creativity and inspiration. We are helping VCSE organisations of all shapes and sizes be heard and play a part in solutions, not just highlight community problems.

We have grown significantly in the last 11 years but are still agile enough to respond to the communities need, not prescribe the same methodology ‘because that’s what has always been done’.

We are sustainable in our own right. Whilst developing others, we have ensured we had one eye on our own platform, securing £3m in assets and generating an average of £800k turnover a year in earned income to by masters of our own destiny and focus on the Wow not Woe in our communities across the Hull and the East Riding.

Covid-19 has provided us with an opportunity to share our way of working further, and in the East Riding we are seen as a community lead and the Go to Charity, now more than ever.  We are proud to say we now have the strongest charitable board in the region, and likewise we have a team of highly skilled and proactive charity leaders.

In response to Covid-19, we set up CallER Collective, a telephone service to provide befriending and companionship to people who were lonely, vulnerable and shielding throughout the lockdown period, delivered by a team of volunteers. It quickly became apparent that there was a bigger need for befriending across our region so we are now going through a period of development to decide what CallER Collective will look like in the post-Covid world.

To ensure that CallER Collective continues to grow and provide this vital service, we are recruiting 3 CallER Collective Befrienders

Working closely with the Programme Manager – Volunteering and the Caller Collective Coordinator, the CallER Collective Carers’ Befrienders will work within this new area funded by East Riding of Yorkshire Council, providing a befriending service for older people and unpaid carers, ensuring that it continues to meet the needs of the people of the East Riding.

For an informal discussion about the role contact Jenny Preston, Programme Manager for Volunteering. 

To view the full job description, please click here. 

To apply for the role, please submit your CV and a covering letter setting out how you meet the essential criteria in the person specification and detailing why you would like to take up this role to here.

Please clearly state in the subject heading the jo role and “18HR”, “30HR” or “Both” if you wish to be considered for either the 18hr or 30hr post.