Employment and Engagement Officer
Closing date: Tuesday 22 April 2025
Location: • Hybrid working across Essex, with regular attendance at Chelmsford office
Hours: 21h per week
Salary: £15,617 – 17,477 per annum actual salary (FTE 26,008 – 29,120)
Contract: Permanent
Interview date: Week commencing 28th April 2025 (online)
We are looking for a part-time Employment & Engagement Officer to promote Support for Sight and its award-winning Support 4 Employment service, support individuals into realising their employment opportunities and aspirations, and engage with our service users through needs assessments and assistive equipment demonstrations.
You’ll need to be an excellent communicator with the ability to build relationships, engage with different people and groups, and provide 1:1 support and advice.
Perks of working with Support 4 Sight
- Holiday pay – 20 days per annum plus bank holidays (pro rata for part time staff) increasing with length of service
- Disability Confident Employer
- In house Training– all staff are offered comprehensive training
- Flexible working arrangements (where business needs allow)
- NEST Pension scheme
- Eye test reimbursements
- Expenses reimbursed as per our policy
- DBS check paid for
- 360 Wellbeing Personal Support Programme for employees and their families (providing they live with you) https://www.360-wellbeing.co.uk/
We are a Disability Confident Committed employer and actively seek applicants with lived experience of sight loss and/or disability as they are currently underrepresented within the team.
Contact us to discuss your access needs and to find out more about the adjustments we can make for you at interview and on the job.
If you are disabled and meet the essential criteria listed in the job description for this position, we will guarantee you an interview.
You do not have to meet ALL of the criteria to be considered for this role. We are open to transferable skills and experience.
If this could be you and you are eager to work with an award-winning, regional sight loss charity with a small, enthusiastic and supportive team, then please take a look at the role profile and send us your CV and a covering letter outlining how you meet the person specification, along with the Equal Opps form, to
For further information about this vacancy and details of how to apply, please visit the Support 4 Sight website: https://www.support4sight.org.uk/how-you-can-help-us/job-vacancies/
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