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Deadline: 9 June 2025.
Salary: £32,000.
Contract: Fixed term contract until June 2027.
Hours: Full-time, 35 hours per week.
Accountable to: Capacity & Engagement Director.
Location: Liverpool (Hybrid working, city-wide, with office in Liverpool city centre).
Employer Bio
For over a century, LCVS has been working to improve the wellbeing of individuals and communities in Liverpool by supporting and encouraging charitable giving and voluntary action and by bringing people, organisations, and resources together. LCVS provides support, advice, training, networking and representation for individuals and charitable organisations. We help donors distribute over £4 million every year.
Job Info
Volunteering for Health is a NHS funded programme to build the capacity and capability of organisations and local health and care systems in England, through the development of volunteering infrastructure. It aims to realise the potential of volunteering in improving the experience and outcomes of people using our health and care systems.
Following a successful bid by Liverpool Charity and Voluntary Services (LCVS) as part of a partnership with NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group (UHL Group), NHS Cheshire and Merseyside, and Liverpool City Council we are recruiting for two posts, a Volunteering for Health Project Lead (this vacancy) and a Volunteering for Health Development Officer to support the partnership in its intention to:
- Establish a robust volunteering infrastructure to address identified health needs and priorities
- Strengthen the capacity of VCFSE (Voluntary Community Faith Social Enterprise) organisations to engage with health volunteering
- Promote collaboration between VCFSE, and statutory organisations to improve health outcomes
- Ensuring sustainability of health volunteering practices beyond the life of the project
- Responding to identified gaps in health volunteering and integrating efforts with local health strategies.
The Volunteering for Health Project Lead will lead on developing and delivering coherent and sustainable volunteering infrastructure in Liverpool, particularly to grow the level of health and wellbeing linked volunteering opportunities across Liverpool.