Community Engagement Lead

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT LEAD (FIXED TERM - 12 MONTHS)

Band 5 | £16.40 - £19.97 per hour
Part time - 22.5 hours per week (working 3 days a week Monday - Friday)
Fixed term - 12 months
Location: Winsley, Wiltshire (with hybrid working agreed)

WHY THIS ROLE?

At Dorothy House, we believe that strong, connected communities are at the heart of delivering outstanding care and support. This role offers a unique opportunity to shape how we work alongside local people, volunteers, and partners to respond to real community needs.

As our Community Engagement Lead, you'll play a key role in developing partnerships, strengthening community networks, and supporting innovative, community-led approaches to care (including asset-based community development). You'll help ensure patients and families are connected to the right support, while empowering communities to build on their own strengths.

This is an ideal opportunity for someone who enjoys relationship-building, working collaboratively, and seeing the real impact of their work across diverse communities.

ABOUT THE BENEFITS

Dorothy House is an incredible place to work. Some of our benefits include:

• 27 days plus bank holidays, increasing to 29 days and then 33 days with length of service
• Excellent industry leading training with a focus on career development!
• Pension with Life Assurance. 
• Colleague discount across our 30 retail stores.
• 45p per mile for work travel. 
• Mindful Employer Plus Charter - supporting our colleagues with access to impartial, confidential advice when you need it most. 

WHAT WILL THE ROLE INVOLVE?

• Building strong relationships across communities, identifying local assets, networks and opportunities
• Acting as an ambassador for Dorothy House, promoting our services and developing community partnerships
• Supporting an asset-based community development (ABCD) approach to co-produce sustainable solutions
• Working collaboratively with internal teams, volunteers and external organisations to deliver community-focused initiatives
• Supporting the development and growth of community volunteer activity and engagement
• Connecting patients, families and carers to appropriate local services, support and community resources
• Supporting and nurturing volunteers, including recruitment, development and ongoing support
• Attending community events, forums and partnership meetings to strengthen local presence and engagement

See our full detailed Job Description on our website for more information.

ABOUT YOU

Essential requirements:

• Experience building relationships across communities or organisations (e.g. partnerships, stakeholder engagement, community groups, or cross-team collaboration)
• Demonstrates an ability to engage, influence and communicate effectively with a wide range of people (such as colleagues, volunteers, external partners, patients and families)
• Experience supporting or coordinating volunteers, projects or community-based activities (such as organising, guiding or supporting others to deliver set outcomes)
• Demonstrates the ability to work proactively and use initiative to develop or improve services, and build partnerships
• Experience identifying needs and connecting people to appropriate support, services or opportunities (e.g. signposting, community mapping, social prescribing style work)

Desirable requirements:

• Understanding of community-led approaches that build on local strengths, networks and existing support within communities (e.g. asset-based community development/ABCD)
• Experience working in health, social care, hospice, voluntary or community sector settings
• Experience facilitating group events, or co-production activity (e.g. communities, volunteers or partners - to share ideas and shape services, activities or solutions together)

If this sounds like your ideal job, then we'd love to see your application!

Please note that our vacancies can close at any time once sufficient applications have been received. We therefore encourage early submission of your application.

INTERVIEWS

Interviews for this role will aim to be held week commencing the 8th of June 2026.