Job Details:
Green Doctor

Job Description

JOIN THE GROUNDWORK TEAM

We’re passionate about creating a future where every neighbourhood is vibrant and green, every community is strong and able to shape its own destiny and no-one is held back by their background or circumstances. We specialise in the following services and are committed to creating added social value through our delivery:

• Community engagement
• Landscape design & build
• Training & coaching for employment
• Early intervention to support health & wellbeing
• Safe & sustainable business support

As a Disability Confident employer we offer a guaranteed interview to applicants with a disability who meet the essential criteria for the role. As a Gold Award Employer Recognition Scheme holder with the Armed Forces Covenant we also offer a guaranteed interview to veterans who meet the essential criteria for the role.

At Groundwork we ensure that we provide a safe environment for adults, children and young people to take part in any activity or service that we organise. We are committed to creating a culture that promotes safeguarding and the welfare of all children, young people and adults at risk.

Our safer recruitment practices support this by ensuring that there is a consistent and comprehensive process of obtaining, collating, analysing and evaluating information from and about candidates to ensure that all the people we appoint are suitable to work with our children, young people and adults.

If you want to work in a values driven team that makes a real difference to individuals and communities in Greater Manchester, read on.

OVERVIEW OF THE POST

The team of Green Doctors offer practical energy, water saving and retrofit advice and guidance to low income and vulnerable people across Greater Manchester, making their homes more energy efficient and cheaper to run. This includes providing measures to keep people warm, identify financial support when needed and fit energy saving equipment along with helping refer residents to other organisations that can help with finances, health or home safety.

This post is recruited as a trainee with automatic progression to qualified Green Doctor on successful completion of the level 3 qualification in Energy Awareness within 6 months.

ROLE & MAIN PURPOSES OF THE POST

Delivery

· Deliver energy, water saving and retrofit advice services across Greater Manchester, including:

· Undertake home visits to install simple and effective measures to help residents to reduce their energy and water consumption and to save money.

· Provide advice to residents and encourage them to further reduce their energy consumption and make cost savings by making changes to their behaviour which also support a changing climate.

· Carry out an energy efficiency survey in each home visited.

· Meet deliverables and quality standards and collect impact and outcome data for learning and reporting.

Business & Service Development

· Manage existing project relationships and networks and generate new relationships or opportunities to support the sustainability of the service.

· Promote energy advice services through marketing and networking.

· Seek stakeholder feedback and use internal and external data and learning to make recommendations for improvements to services.

Financial & Resource Management

· Plan and manage activity budgets and resources.

· Support the preparation of smaller funding proposals including design, writing and pricing, under guidance.

· Produce statistical analysis and progress reports for funders and partners.

People Management & Development

· Share specialist skills and knowledge with others.

· Supervise volunteers or trainees.

· Embed GGM culture and values through own behaviours and providing supportive challenge to others.

Internal Management

· Embed GGM policy and procedure within energy advice service.

· Support delivery of business improvement priority plans within energy advice service.

· Support organisational needs/development as required.

Other

· Perform all other duties as assigned

GGM operates a graded pay scheme which permits salary progression within grade subject to appropriate performance level. Our normal policy is to appoint at base of grade.

To apply for this role please download the documents from https://www.groundwork.org.uk/jobs/green-doctor-role/

and send to [email protected]

Sick leave 

Maternity Pay

Paternity Pay 

Carers leave

Bereavement leave 

Flexible working 

Pension

Adoption leave:

Volunteering leave (2 days)