Job summary
The response to the pandemic was a game-changer for volunteering
with so many people stepping forward to help. This inspired our local
leaders in Gloucestershire's' ICS to create a new system-wide programme to
transform our local volunteering offer. Foundational to the programme has
been the creation of the ICS Volunteering Network, a multi-sector group of
senior leaders, responsible for driving forward a new volunteering vision and associated
plans.
To support the Network in
successfully delivering our wide-ranging ambitions, centred around the
establishment of a truly integrated ICS-wide volunteering offer, we are now
recruiting to this ICS Strategic Volunteering Lead role. The role will sit
within the ICB, but very much be working for and across the whole ICS. This
unique brand-new role is a rare opportunity to make your mark on the future of
local health and care volunteering, with the potential for you to really make a
difference to many thousands of volunteers and the people they are supporting.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will
support the Network and the constituent ICS organisations in all volunteering
related matters; specifically by
Being the key driving
force behind the ICS volunteering programme, both strategically and
operationally, and in doing so continuously evolve an overall programme plan
and monitor progress. Where required, lead the operational delivery of specific
projects.
Using their expertise
of health and care volunteering, along with awareness of national policy and
best practice, act as a go to ICS-wide strategic influencer for volunteering
and provide an expert point of contact.
Building positive
working relationships with a wide range of local and national cross-sector
senior influencers, including VCSE partners.
Working with
colleagues to raise the profile of volunteering to the point where volunteers
are considered equally alongside the paid workforce.
Utilising their change
management skills to develop and implement the cultural change programme
required to achieve the above, ensuring that greater numbers of volunteers are
recruited and crucially - retained.
Confidently
communicating, both verbally and in writing, to a wide range of key
stakeholders, at various levels of seniority, both on an individual basis and
to groups of senior people.
About us
Our NHS Gloucestershire
Integrated Care Board (NHS Gloucestershire) is responsible for planning and
buying services to meet the health needs of local people. It also
brings partners together to ensure the counties NHS provides the best possible
care. Alongside our communities, we want to improve health, improve access to
high quality care and support when needed and make Gloucestershire a better
place for the future.
NHS Gloucestershire ICB
had the best staff survey result in 2023 for proportion of staff who would
recommend it as a place to work.
More information about our organisation can be found here: NHS Gloucestershire ICB (nhsglos.nhs.uk)
Job description
Job responsibilities
This is a new role, one
that is crucial to demonstrating and embedding a clear commitment from the ICS
in Gloucestershire to volunteering, working in a genuinely integrated way with
the Gloucestershire Volunteering Collaborative, and many others, via the ICS
Volunteering Network made up of multiple stakeholders across different sectors.
We need someone with
the knowledge, gravitas and high-level influencing skills who can lead this
major change programme, continuing to adapt and evolve the necessary
relationships to lead an integrated approach to
volunteering across the county, bringing together all the different
volunteering leaders into the ICS Volunteering Network. The post holder will plan, support, and
facilitate the volunteering programme across the ICS as a whole, and across the
constituent organisations.
Working
alongside the Network chair (the ICB Chief Executive), the post holder will be
responsible for the ongoing evolution of the ICS volunteering strategy and
related work programme. The post holder
will support the Network and all the constituent ICS organisations to work
towards providing an integrated volunteering offer, as well as a range of other
projects, some of which the post holder will be required to operationally
lead. They will also be an expert point
of contact and conduit for all things volunteering for both local and
national colleagues.
see attached job
description for full details.
Job description
Job responsibilities
This is a new role, one
that is crucial to demonstrating and embedding a clear commitment from the ICS
in Gloucestershire to volunteering, working in a genuinely integrated way with
the Gloucestershire Volunteering Collaborative, and many others, via the ICS
Volunteering Network made up of multiple stakeholders across different sectors.
We need someone with
the knowledge, gravitas and high-level influencing skills who can lead this
major change programme, continuing to adapt and evolve the necessary
relationships to lead an integrated approach to
volunteering across the county, bringing together all the different
volunteering leaders into the ICS Volunteering Network. The post holder will plan, support, and
facilitate the volunteering programme across the ICS as a whole, and across the
constituent organisations.
Working
alongside the Network chair (the ICB Chief Executive), the post holder will be
responsible for the ongoing evolution of the ICS volunteering strategy and
related work programme. The post holder
will support the Network and all the constituent ICS organisations to work
towards providing an integrated volunteering offer, as well as a range of other
projects, some of which the post holder will be required to operationally
lead. They will also be an expert point
of contact and conduit for all things volunteering for both local and
national colleagues.
see attached job
description for full details.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree educated or equivalent experience
- Post graduate qualification such as a Masters in a relevant subject area such as management studies; alternatively equivalent experience.
- Significant knowledge of the NHS and care environment, along with experience of working in a health care environment or with health care partners.
- Experience and/or very strong understanding of volunteering management and the challenges faced.
- Communicates complex information about volunteering-related issues, regulation, and guidance, where there may be significant barriers to acceptance. Presents on volunteering-related issues, policies, and procedures to groups of system partners and senior staff.
- Able to manage and resolve conflicting priorities between individuals and/or organisations, applying a high level of emotional intelligence and maintaining personal resilience.
- Able to collaborate, build and maintain strong working relationships across multiple stakeholders and organisations.
- Able to influence a wide range of key stakeholders, at various levels of seniority, both on an individual basis and to groups of often senior people.
- See attached Job Description for full details.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree educated or equivalent experience
- Post graduate qualification such as a Masters in a relevant subject area such as management studies; alternatively equivalent experience.
- Significant knowledge of the NHS and care environment, along with experience of working in a health care environment or with health care partners.
- Experience and/or very strong understanding of volunteering management and the challenges faced.
- Communicates complex information about volunteering-related issues, regulation, and guidance, where there may be significant barriers to acceptance. Presents on volunteering-related issues, policies, and procedures to groups of system partners and senior staff.
- Able to manage and resolve conflicting priorities between individuals and/or organisations, applying a high level of emotional intelligence and maintaining personal resilience.
- Able to collaborate, build and maintain strong working relationships across multiple stakeholders and organisations.
- Able to influence a wide range of key stakeholders, at various levels of seniority, both on an individual basis and to groups of often senior people.
- See attached Job Description for full details.
