Community Engagement & Development Lead - Sunderland

As Community Engagement and Development Lead you will raise awareness of the subject of problem gambling and promote the service within a variety of settings across the North East region.

Working peripatetically across the region you will deliver training to help members of the public, local communities and professionals to identify problem gambling and ensure understanding/ awareness of referral and signposting pathways into the Gambling Treatment Service; actively plan and deliver community campaigns; provide advice, brief and extended brief interventions in a range of settings and develop and support a network of Community Champions for gambling related harm

Office Base at Sunderland with peripatetic working across the North East region.

The successful candidate will hold a minimum level 4 qualification in a relevant filed i.e. health and social care, social work, education, community, mental health, health promotion or equivalent and be capable of independent travel across the North East region.

NECA offers competitive staff benefits including company pension scheme, occupational sick pay, occupational maternity / paternity pay, and a generous holiday entitlement starting at 24 days plus bank holidays, increasing to 30 days after 1 years service (pro rata for part time staff).

NECA aims to be an equality and diversity employer. We welcome applications from relevant qualified people from all sections of the community regardless of age, disability, gender assignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation.

We welcome and encourage applications from those with lived experience of gambling harms.

* Please note you will be require to complete our online application form to be considered - a link will be sent via email once you've applied via Reed