See Work Differently Work Placement – Community Social Action Assistant
Closing date: Tuesday 28 October 2025
Location: Derry/Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Hours: 10 hours per week for 28 weeks.
Salary: £12.60 per hour (Real Living Wage)
Contract: FTC
Interview date: TBC
Would you enjoy providing vital support to our Northern Ireland Community Social Action team?
Would you like to gain recent work experience while helping us to develop opportunities for people with sight loss to engage with and create an impact in their local communities?
If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you to join our team. You will be supporting RNIB’s Social Action Team in the North West of Northern Ireland. This role requires someone to work from RNIB’s Derry office in Londonderry, Northern Ireland but will also require travel around the wider area, e.g. Ballymena, Ballymoney, Coleraine, Limavady.
RNIB is the leading UK’s sight loss charity helping people with sight loss to thrive. Our Community Social Action team provides support to blind and partially sighted people within their local community to build confidence and independence. Enabling those with sight loss to live a full and independent life.
This role could be your next move towards work. You will have sound IT skills including experience with MS Office – Outlook, Word, and Excel, as well as good communication and organisational skills.
This role is part of RNIB’s See Work Differently employment initiative – funded specifically for candidates who experience sight loss and are not in paid work, to secure that first rung on the career ladder or return to work following a career break. We are looking forward to receiving your application, if this applies to you. Previous placement holders need not apply.
RNIB prides itself on being a great place to work with a positive, progressive culture. We offer a wide range of benefits including 26 days of holiday per year (plus bank holidays) which rises with service, enhanced family friendly benefits, a contributory pension scheme with an employer contribution of up to 11% and a rewards platform with employee discounts across over 800 retailers.
For more information on our available benefits, please visit our Benefits of Working at RNIB page.
How to Apply
If you’d like to apply for this opportunity, please apply online, uploading your CV and supporting statement, telling us how you meet the essential criteria in the person specification.
For further information about this vacancy and details of how to apply, please visit the Royal National Institute of Blind People website: https://www.rnib.org.uk/about-us/careers-at-rnib/
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