VILLAGE ANGELS SHIFT LEAD → in Manchester inManchester PUBLISHED TUE 7 JAN 2025 Jump to job information section

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Village Angels Shift Lead

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LGBT Foundation is an impactful, vibrant charity with a wide portfolio of well-established services and rapidly developing new initiatives aimed at meeting the needs of lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans people. We are looking for a Shift Lead for our Village Angels Team.

Our Village Angels service is a community safety initiative, aimed at supporting people to “get home safely” on a Friday and Saturday night. They are the face of the LGBT Foundation and the LGBTQ+ community. The team can be found patrolling around Canal Street and the nearby area from 9pm to 3.30am on Friday and Saturday nights. They support vulnerable people with a wide range of issues, including injuries, mental health crisis, and those who are lost and are struggling. They also provide signposting to services for onward support.

We are looking for people who have strong communication skills, leadership skills, and the ability to manage difficult or challenging situations. Our team engage with potential service users and members of public regularly and will need to be able to make decisions when dealing with risky situations. As this team’s work is based within Manchester’s gay village, we are looking for individuals with understanding of the key issues experienced by the LGBTQ+ community which will aid them in provide safe support to those who need us but also when working in partnership strong relationships with Greater Manchester Police and village venues.

Experience within health care is desirable but not essential, as first aid, safeguarding, and mental health first aid training will be provided.

• Trans is an umbrella & inclusive term used to describe people whose gender identity differs in some way from that which they were assigned at birth; including non-binary people, cross-dressers, and those who partially or incompletely identify with their sex assigned at birth.
  
  

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