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A new exciting opportunity to join our Corporate Development team as our Compassionate Employers Lead.

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Salary: £48,925 per annum

Location: Hybrid Work Culture. We are proud to promote a truly hybrid work culture, recognising that every role is different, and everyone has unique needs and preferences. Our Hybrid Work Arrangement empowers each team member to work with their manager to choose the most effective way to work that balances your needs and Hospice UK’s. Our office is a short walk from King’s Cross station in London.

Ideally, we are looking for someone to come into the office in London on a Tuesday each week. A day where all of Income Generation come into the office. You can work remotely for the rest of the time. Equally, you may prefer to work from the office full-time. We encourage all colleagues to visit member hospices to help inform our work and you may be able to work from there

Contractually this role is London-based.

Contract: Permanent, full time (35 hours per week).

Benefits:

  • 25 days annual leave rising to 30 days after 2 years (+ an extra 10 days on each 5th year). Pro rata for part time hours
  • Matched pension scheme up to 7% of salary
  • Support for staff with caring responsibilities
  • Flexible working 

How to Apply: CV and supporting statement - using Hospice UK’s supporting statement document – see below

Closing date for applications: 10am on Monday 16 September 2024.

Interview dates: In person interviews will take place on Monday 23 and Tuesday 24 September 2024. Informal follow up interviews will be held over MS teams on Thursday 26 September 2024. 

We’ll send questions and assessments to you in advance so that you can prepare. Let us know if you have any specific needs to be able to fully engage with the process.

Job Information

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Join us at Hospice UK’s Compassionate Employers programme as we change how employers support their employees through grief, caring, and the end of life. 

Compassionate Employers is a workplace programme offering support for bereavement, caring or terminal illness. Our clients use our services ad-hoc or sign up for a yearly membership.  

Since our launch in 2019, we've seen impressive growth and now we’re helping more than 160,000 employees across the UK. Our ambition is to continue to grow to become a leading workplace wellbeing programme. Our ability to adapt and refine the programme over the last few years as helped us to evolve and respond to the market need. We are an ambitious team looking for the next person to help us take this programme to the next level.  

Do you want to become an expert in bereavement? Do you know about carers leave? Do you want to be able to support colleagues through a terminal diagnosis?  

We need someone who can become a leading external voice within the workplace wellbeing field. We need a confident speaker who can inspire and engage their audiences at industry led conferences and webinars. 

We're after someone who can build strong relationships and think strategically to meet our clients' needs. You'll need to spot opportunities for growth and collaboration while ensuring our clients get the most value out of our programme. 

Most importantly, we want someone who cares as much as we do about making a real difference in people's lives at work. If you're driven to promote workplace wellbeing and eager to create positive change, come join us and help shape the future of the Compassionate Employers programme. 

Find out more here: https://www.hospiceuk.org/compassionate-employers  

The Team:   

The Compassionate Employers team includes the Compassionate Employers Programme Lead, Corporate Development Manager (sales) and the Compassionate Employers Executive. With regular support from the Deputy Director of Income Generation. 

Working together, we aim to support employers who need our workplace services, ultimately raising funds for hospices throughout the UK.  

The Compassionate Employers programme and this role sit within our Corporate Development Team, within Income Generation and Grants. Compassionate Employers is a key part of Hospice UK’s Income Generation strategy.  

Our Income Generation and Grants Directorate engages people through emotional storytelling, connecting people to our cause, giving them the opportunity to support us in different ways and helping them to feel proud to make a difference. We aim to create a culture where income generation is embedded in the DNA of our organisation and everyone is proud of fundraising. We have a ‘one team, one dream’ mentality. 

"Being part of Compassionate Employers has been the best part of my career yet. It feels amazing to be involved in a programme that genuinely supports people during such tough times.” Faith 

If you’re interested in our exciting Compassionate Employers role, we’d love to hear from you.   

If you’d like to ask any questions before applying, you can contact Kathryn on K.Brennan@hospiceuk.org

You’ll find lots more information in the Candidate Information Pack attached below.

How to apply

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If you would like to apply for this role, please send the following documents to recruitment@hospiceuk.org by 10am on Monday 16 September 2024:

We will shortlist candidates based on their CV and supporting statements. There will be two further stages to the selection process:

A briefing of what to expect will be sent in advance to shortlisted candidates.

Closing date for applications: 10am on Monday 16 September 2024

We believe in fair recruitment and working to remove bias, so all applications will have identifying indicators removed before being submitted to the shortlisting panel.

Please make sure you provide your contact details in your email. We’ll contact you to let you know whether we would like to meet you. Please note the interview dates above and let us know if there are adjustments you might need to participate fully in the process. We will try to be flexible.

To be considered for this role you must have the right to live and work in the UK for your application to be progressed. Hospice UK is an Equal Opportunities Employer.

Candidate Information Pack

This pack includes the job description and person specification as well as information about the team this role will work in.