What makes Community Integrated Care a great place to work:
Do you have great communication skills and a passion for connecting with people? Are you creative, passionate, and practical?
Would you love to be part of incredible programmes, work with amazing brands, and have a career that is truly meaningful, working for one of Britain's most successful charities?
Community Integrated Care is one of the UK's leading social care charities – delivering more than 10 million hours of care and support every year.
We are recruiting for a Partnerships and Community Development Specialist for a 12 month maternity cover contract.
This is an amazing role where you will be part of a team that manages and delivers a diverse range of programmes and partnerships that support disabled people to lead The Best Life Possible.
The successful candidate will ideally be based in the North West as travel to our head office in Widnes is required at least once a week.
Our work has included:
* Creating life-changing social impact programmes with the UEFA Women's Euro 2022, Rugby League World Cup and World Para Swimming Championships 2023
* Campaigns to bring the benefits of nature into social care, inspired by Sir David Attenborough's Wild Isles.
* Creating www.What-To- – a website that offers free accessible live online experiences, from dance experiences with the stars of Strictly Come Dancing to bake-alongs with the Great British Bake Off stars.
* Developing important educational programmes and campaigns, including efforts to support people through the cost of living crisis.
This is a unique role – filled with creativity, big ideas and exciting opportunities. Helping to implement and manage our projects, and supporting us to build new partnerships and programmes, this role blends many rewarding and exciting areas: designing and managing projects, working with communities, communications and engagement, innovation and social impact.
Who you'll be supporting & more about the role:
About The Role
This position is perfect for someone who is growing in their career. We are looking to welcome a who can often work with independence, but with great support and mentoring from our talented leadership team, they can also grow in their career.
Our ideal candidate will:
* Be a strong communicator – We are looking for someone who is a good copywriter and can really inspire people in conversations and presentations. Ideally, they will be able to direct the creation of content – such as videos, social media assets, toolkits and news items – to help with the delivery and promotion of our work.
* Be able to create and support the delivery of a range of projects – Our work is diverse - from creating educational workshops to hosting corporate volunteering with businesses, to delivering campaigns on social issues to developing local community groups.
We are looking to welcome someone who can really contribute well to our delivery of these programmes and can lead in the creation of new ones, with support.
- Have creative ideas and a practical approach – We want to welcome someone who will be really interested in the lives of the people we support and the needs of our charity. Through developing great insights, they will contribute great ideas about how we can create new programmes, relationships and opportunities that make a difference.
- Have strong administration skills and attention to detail – Great projects and campaigns are built on good organisation. This role has important administrative elements, so we want to meet someone who cares about detail.
- Build great relationships – We're looking for a people person, who will work brilliantly with the people we support, our colleagues, partners, and other key stakeholders. You'll know how to nurture and grow positive relationships. Importantly, we're coordinating projects from across the UK, so you need to be able to build relationships across the nation and grow ones that are largely developed online.
Your values:
Who is this role for?
We are open to meeting candidates from a range of different background. Maybe you have worked in communications, marketing, or events – or another field that involves great engagement and communications. Perhaps you have worked for a charity, an arts and cultural organisation, or a community group.
We are open to any background -our main goal is to meet someone whose skills and passions meet our requirements. Please explain in your application why you are a good fit for our role.
We Offer:
* A competitive salary – Reflecting your skills and experience.
* Flexible working – We support a four-day working week, where colleagues can condense their working hours across four days
* Extensive employee benefits package – including discounts with many leading retailers and brands.
* Significant career opportunities – You will be part of a major charity, where people can learn and grow. This programme offers a unique opportunity to develop new skills and build your career through working with an exceptional team and world-class partners.
* Meaningful work – Every day matters at Community Integrated Care. The work that you do changes lives and impacts society.
Location:
This role supports home working. However, our team comes together at least once a week in our head office in Widnes, to support collaboration and a healthy team dynamic. We also expect our colleagues to visit our services and regions at times, to be truly connected to the voice of the people we support and to ensure that our work is always informed and connected.
Please note, if you are interested in this role, we welcome your application as soon as possible Depending on the volume of applications received, the vacancy may be closed before the expected advertising end date.
Interested and want to know a bit more?
To find out more about our charity check out:
We're really proud to be a Hive HR Employee Voice Certified organisation, a recognition that confirms our commitment to creating a culture where our colleagues are not only encouraged to share their thoughts, but where this feedback is actively sought and acted upon to drive positive change at every level.
In our 2025 Colleague Engagement Survey, 59% (nearly 3,800) of our people shared their feedback and insights, giving us an incredible Employee Net Promoter Score of +34.
The Employee Net Promoter Score is a measure of how willing our colleagues are to recommend us as a good place to work to their loved ones – and a score of +34 is considered a Very Good score when compared to global benchmarks set by hundreds of other organisations.