Hub Support Worker

Neath, Neath Port Talbot Principle Area (On-site)
£28,547 per year
Full-time
Contract (Fixed term contract until 30.09.2027)

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Job description

Full time/ 35 hours a week (flexible working considered)

Are you a motivated and compassionate individual with a passion for supporting people to overcome barriers and achieve their potential? Do you have experience working with volunteers or learners and engaging people from diverse backgrounds?

If so, St Giles Trust is looking for a Support Worker to play a key role in delivering an exciting community heritage project in partnership with the National Trust.

About St Giles Trust
An ambitious, well-established charity that helps people facing adversity to find jobs, homes and the right support they need.  Central to our ethos is our belief that people with first-hand experience of successfully overcoming issues such as an offending background, homelessness, addictions and gang involvement, hold the key to positive change in others.  

About the Project
This innovative new project will create opportunities for people who are often excluded from heritage and community spaces. Working in partnership with the National Trust at Aberdulais, the project will:

  • Recruit, train and support new volunteers using our lived experience peer-led model
  • Deliver community events and activities to engage local people and visitors
  • Increase access to heritage and nature, improving wellbeing
  • Build a more diverse and sustainable volunteer base to support the future of the site

About this key role
You will support the delivery of community engagement activities and help recruit, train and support volunteers at the Aberdulais Community Heritage Hub. Working as part of a small, supportive team, you will play a hands-on role in helping individuals build confidence, develop skills and progress into volunteering opportunities.

You will:

  • Support the recruitment and onboarding of volunteers
  • Help deliver heritage training sessions and develop learning resources
  • Provide one-to-one and group support to volunteers
  • Assist with the planning and delivery of community events and activities
  • Promote the project and support outreach and engagement
  • Maintain accurate records and contribute to monitoring and reporting
  • Work with partners and referral organisations to identify and support participants
  • Support volunteers to progress into further opportunities

What we are looking for

  • Experience supporting volunteers, learners or service users in an advisory, training or support capacity
  • Ability to build positive relationships with people from diverse backgrounds
  • Strong communication and interpersonal skills
  • Good organisational and administrative skills, including record-keeping
  • Ability to work collaboratively with colleagues and external partners
  • Confidence managing workload, deadlines and reporting requirements

Please note: this role requires an Enhanced DBS check.

In return, you can expect a competitive salary, generous leave allowance, staff pension, access to clinical supervision, flexible working, a mentoring programme, an advice and counselling service, season ticket loan and much more.

We are an equity and inclusion confident employer. We welcome all applications, and we particularly encourage applications from people of the global majority (black, brown, multi- heritage) and those who identify as disabled, neuroexpansive, neurodiverse, with any protected characteristics and/or social barriers or challenges. We value the empowering and informative impact that all lived experiences and diversity of thought can offer the organisation.

St Giles will guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria set out in the Job Description for the vacancy.

Closing date: 9 am on 07 May 2026

Interview date: TBC

Organisation
St Giles Trust View profile Organisation type Registered Charity Company size 501 - 1000

We help people held back by poverty, unemployment, the criminal justice system, homelessness, exploitation and abuse to build a positive future.

Posted on: 27 April 2026
Closing date: 07 May 2026 at 09:00
Job ref: HSW-261
Tags: Administration, Volunteering Management, Events / Activities, Social / Support Work