Homerton Community and Social Impact Coordinator

Are you passionate about making a real difference in your local community and experienced in building strong partnerships with community groups and organisations to deliver positive social impact? We are seeking an experienced and highly motivated Community and Social Impact Coordinator to join our team at Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. This is an exciting opportunity for a relationship driven professional with experience in community engagement, employability programmes, apprenticeships, sustainability, social value, corporate social responsibility, or community investment initiatives.

Working closely with NHS stakeholders, local authorities, charities, education providers, and internal teams, you will play a pivotal role in delivering employment, skills, volunteering, environmental and social value programmes that make a lasting difference to local people and communities.

If you are an organised, proactive individual with excellent stakeholder management, project coordination, reporting, and communication skills, and are passionate about driving positive social change, we would love to hear from you.

What You'll Do:

• Lead and deliver Social Value programmes that create measurable benefits for local communities, supporting employment, skills development, volunteering, sustainability and community engagement initiatives.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders including NHS Trust representatives, local authorities, Jobcentre Plus, education providers, charities, community organisations and employability partners.
• Work closely with HR and recruitment teams to maximise employment opportunities for local residents, with a focus on supporting disadvantaged and underrepresented groups into meaningful work.
• Develop and coordinate apprenticeship, work experience and employability programmes, including careers events, mentoring initiatives, CV workshops and interview preparation sessions.
• Manage partnerships with schools, colleges, universities and community education providers to create pathways into training, apprenticeships and employment opportunities.
• Lead community engagement and volunteering activities, promoting social impact initiatives and encouraging colleague participation in local community projects.
• Drive sustainability and environmental improvement programmes, supporting waste reduction, recycling, circular economy projects and wider net zero objectives.
• Monitor, measure and report on Social Value performance, producing impact reports, case studies and presentations that demonstrate contractual outcomes and community benefits to clients and senior stakeholders.

What You Bring:

• Building and maintaining relationships.
• Producing reports, presentations and impact measurement.
• Delivering employability, community or education initiatives.
• Managing projects and programmes with measurable outcomes.
• Working with external organisations and community partners.
• Delivering community, social impact, sustainability, CSR or VCSE programmes.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement skills.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Data analysis and performance monitoring capability.
• Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint skills.
• Ability to manage multiple workstreams simultaneously.
• Highly organised with strong attention to detail.
• Ability to influence stakeholders at all levels.
• Ability to work independently and proactively.

What we offer:

• Unlimited access to an online platform offering mental health and wellbeing support.
• Employee Assistance Programme to help with everyday issues or larger problems where you may need additional support, including legal and financial advice, support with work related issues or personal issues such as bereavement.
• Access to a free health and wellbeing app that provides rewards for maintaining a healthy lifestyle and includes access to a 24hr virtual GP and various other services.
• The Sodexo Discounts Scheme, offering great deals 24/7 (also open to friends and family) and/or the prepayment cashback card.
• Money Insights and financial benefits via the Salary Finance Platform.
• Save for your future by becoming a member of the Sodexo Retirement Plan.
• A Death in Service benefit for colleagues who pass away whilst employed by Sodexo.
• Opportunities to enable colleagues to grow and succeed throughout their career at Sodexo, including a variety of learning and development tools.
• Cycle to Work Scheme to help colleagues to do their bit for the environment whilst keeping fit.
• Volunteering Opportunities to enable all colleagues to help support worthwhile causes in our communities.
• Flexible and dynamic work environment.
• Competitive compensation.
• Full training and full protective uniform supplied.

Sodexo reserves the right to close this advertisement early if we are in receipt of a high volume of applications.

About Sodexo: At Sodexo, our purpose is to create a better every day for everyone to build a better life for all. As the global leader in services that improve the Quality of Life, we operate in 55 countries, serving over 100 million consumers each day through our unique combination of Onsite Food and FM Services, Benefits and Rewards Services and Personal and Home Services.

We are committed to being an inclusive employer. We are a forces friendly employer. We welcome and encourage applications from people with a diverse variety of experiences, backgrounds, and identities. We encourage our employees to get involved with our Employee Networks such as Pride, Sodexo Parents and Carers, Sodexo Disability, Ability network, So Together, Generations and Origins.

We’re a Disability Confident Leader employer. We’re committed to changing attitudes towards disability, and making sure disabled people have the chance to fulfil their aspirations. We run a Disability Confident interview scheme for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria for the job.