Job Opportunities

Befriending Coordinator

21 hours a week (for 2 years initially)

Salary £32,004 pro rata + 7.5% pension contribution

Based in Gro For You Community Campus Tain with some home working

 

Befrienders Highland Ltd and the Gro For You Community Campus in Tain have been awarded two years of collaboration funding on a joint project to help people reduce social isolation and loneliness and build community connection in Tain and the wider Easter Ross area.

 

We are looking for a Befriending Coordinator to develop befriending services and work as part of the Gro For You Project Team on the new Community Campus in Tain.  The successful candidate will be employed by Befrienders Highland Ltd.

 

Recruitment details:  

Job Description and Person Specification - Befriending Coordinator 2026 GFY Project (PDF)

Application Form - Befrienders Highland - Tain Coordinator (docx)

Application Form - Befrienders Highland - Tain Coordinator (PDF)

Equal Opportunties Monitoring Form (docx)

Equal Opportunties Monitoring Form (PDF)

 

Closing date for applications is 5PM on Thursday 12^th March 

Interviews will be held in Tain on Wednesday 25^th March.

 

Befrienders Highland has been providing befriending services in the Highlands of Scotland for over 30 years, working with a wide-spread group of volunteers and people experiencing mental health issues across this diverse area.

Befrienders Highland is committed to an Equal Opportunities Policy and welcomes applications from all people regardless of age, gender, marital status, nationality, race, disability (physical or mental), neurodiversity, sexual orientation or religion.

 

Advert - Befriending Coordinator 2026 GFY Project (docx)

Advert - Befriending Coordinator 2026 GFY Project (PDF)

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