Love4Life opportunity – trainer

FitzRoy has a fantastic opportunity for Love4life members.

We want to recruit autistic people or people with a learning disability to support FitzRoy’s training programme understanding learning disabilities and autism.

Salary £12.21 an hour

Dates, hours and locations will be flexible and agreed at least two months in advance.

Successful applicants for this new role will help FitzRoy train our support teams in the Oliver McGowan autism and learning disability one day training course across our services in Petersfield, Coventry, Nottingham and Norfolk.

You will be provided with everything you need including full training and support.

• No training experience required, you will be fully trained.
• We will pay you for your travel time and expenses.
• You will be working with one of our FitzRoy trainers to help guide you through the course.

Your voice and experience of being autistic or having a learning disability will be an important part of helping us enable our staff to provide quality support.

What we offer:

• £12.21 per hour, including for travel and training time
• Travel expenses to get to the venues
• Full training to become a trainer
• Support and a facilitator on the course to make sure each training session goes well

We are looking for:

Members of Love4Life who are autistic or have a learning disability who can drive and have access to a car.

With great:

• Communication skills – able to put across your point of view from your own experiences as well as deliver training information
• Voice projection – able to train a group of people face to face and be heard
• Energy – able to be in a room and deliver four hours of training (with support) with enthusiasm and energy
• Reliability – will turn up for the training days you agree to
• Personal Confidence

If you have any questions contact Hayley.Ostler@love4life.org.uk

To apply email Lucy.Sims@fitzroy.org with your name, why you are interested in the role and why you think you would be good at it, and which locations you would be able to travel to. We are looking for people to train in Nottingham, Coventry, Petersfield and Norfolk.

About FitzRoy

FitzRoy is a national charity, set up 60 years ago by brave parents as a pioneering alternative to institutional care. Their values remain the values of FitzRoy today – we see the person, we are brave and we are creative – and they thread through everything we do.

We support hundreds of people with a range of needs. You could be supporting someone with learning disabilities, autism, acquired brain injuries or mental health support needs. Many of the people we support also have physical impairments or other health issues. Working for us will give you an opportunity to learn, to grow and to transform lives. Join us today.