Culture & Inclusion Advisor
Full time/Permanent
Hybrid Working
Salary - £27,250 (London - £30,300)
Closing Date: 10.12.2024
Our offer to you
We pride ourselves in being a great place to work, providing a supportive culture with opportunities to grow and develop your career, achieve a healthy work life balance and to be recognised for the great work you do. You will receive:
- Competitive salary and pension scheme
- Basic Holiday Entitlement 25 days plus Bank Holidays
- Hybrid, Flexible working
- Cycle to work scheme Electric Vehicle Scheme
- Health and Wellbeing portal – access to financial, health and wellbeing support and an Employee Assistance Programme
- Discounts – you will have access to Blue Light and NHS Discounts as well as discounts on mobile phones, gym membership, cinema tickets, restaurants, holidays and shopping
About Us
This is a fantastic opportunity to join a dedicated team of over 1,440 employees and 31,000 volunteers, all working towards a common goal: saving lives through essential first aid services, training, and campaigning to put lifesaving skills at the heart of every community. As a charity with a long and illustrious history, we are proud of our past and excited about creating a healthier, safer, and more resilient future.
St John Ambulance works at the heart of communities, supporting and enabling them to access and receive physical and mental health first aid. We do this through developing and providing effective community response and outreach services (e.g. Ambulance response, Falls response, Night Time Economy and Homelessness outreach) and using our longstanding expertise to empower people with vital clinical skills and the confidence to use them (e.g. our Volunteers and Community Advocates, NHS Cadets and Young Responders programmes). There is also a buoyant social enterprise network which delivers first aid training and supplies medical consumables to businesses and consumers.
This is an exciting time of transformation with an opportunity to lead and mature the charity’s data maturity by leading a new data strategy.
Job Summary
The Culture and Inclusion Advisor will provide specialist support across the organisation to achieve the aims of our People and Culture plans, including our EDI strategy. The role holder will be expected to positively impact and interface with all parts of our organisation and we are looking for someone who is passionate about Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) and can provide advice and practical support to deliver our People and Culture commitments. We need someone who is culturally competent and able to identify issues and contribute to focussed activity which aligns with our strategy.
About You
You will be educated to GCSE level or equivalent at Grade C or above in Maths & English, ideally have current experience of supporting and advising in aspects of equity, diversity and inclusion. Have excellent interpersonal and people skills with ability to influence effectively, Working and achieving success in complex, multi-disciplinary and matrix organisations where collaboration is vital. You will be comfortable and confident in compassionately challenging and addressing incidences of racism, sexism, transphobia etc.
About the Role
- Working alongside the wider People and Culture team, including our People Advisors, and Management and Leadership Advisors, to drive innovative cultural change.
- Developing and delivering EDI and Cultural coaching sessions, aligned to our Culture priorities and activity
- Developing and delivering interventions, training and educational workshops
- Providing support to the Chairs and Co-chairs of our people networks, enabling them to thrive and develop robust work plans
- Keep up to date with the wider, national EDI calendar and create and monitor relevant posts on our intranet"
Please see the job description for more detail (this can be viewed on our website or once you click apply)
Find out more about us, including our Ask Me campaign, at www.sja.org.uk
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For all other candidates, or St John Ambulance volunteers wishing to apply: please apply below
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive high volume of applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
We are particularly interested in people from underrepresented or minoritised backgrounds as we are working towards a more inclusive organisation with a diversity of perspectives.
St John Ambulance are committed to increasing the diversity of our team and making sure we best reflect the diversity of the communities we serve. At St John, everyone is valued and supported to thrive, we have several networks including Multi Culture, Disability and Accessibility, Pride, Family and Carers and Women’s groups. We do not tolerate any form of discrimination and engender a sense of belonging for all, by creating an environment of mutual respect, where we value unique differences and demonstrate authentic allyship. We believe passionately in equality, diversity and inclusion.
'St John Ambulance is committed to safeguarding and we promote safe recruitment practice. Therefore, all successful applicants will undergo pre-employment checks, including DBS Clearance, as part of the onboarding process, if applicable to the nature of the role'.
Please note: St John does not accept speculative CVs and will only review CVs sent in application for an advertised vacancy.
