Job Advert: Expert By Experience – Live Sport
Do you like attending events?
Do you enjoy watching sports?
Do you have lived experience of having a disability?
Would you like to make a difference and help other disabled people?
Community Integrated Care is recruiting Experts By Experience.
They will help support sporting events to become more inclusive and accessible.
Experts by Experience are paid to share their views, experiences and ideas.
They help companies or groups improve by learning from the views of disabled people.
Our Experts By Experience will help to support Paralympic sporting events that are taking place in England, Scotland and Wales this year.
This programme will be called ‘The Support Squad’
These roles are paid at £10.42 per hour.
You will be paid to work on set activities.
This is not a full time or permanent job.
It is a flexible job where you will be paid to be part exciting small projects.
We have two opportunities available.
Our first opportunity is to attend the Paralympic sporting events and give your feedback on them.
We want to hire thoughtful people who can tell us about their experiences.
This role is open to people who live in or near to Manchester, Sheffield, Birmingham, Glasgow, Swansea and Cardiff.
These are the cities where the events will be taking place.
You will suggest how these events can become even more accessible in the future.
You will help us recognise any positive experiences that you have too.
This will be a fun job where you will be paid to watch sport.
Your views will make a real difference.
It is likely that people doing this role will receive up to 14 hours of paid work, for each event that they are part of.
Our second opportunity is to be part of the ‘Support Squad Team’as an ‘Advisory Group’ member.
The Advisory Group is a team that will meet online with the people that are delivering the Paralympic sport events.
You will help them by sharing your ideas and feedback.
You might also be asked to be part of small projects outside of these meetings.
This role is open to people across the country.
Many of this team will live in or near to our event venues in: Manchester, Sheffield, Birmingham, Glasgow, Swansea and Cardiff.
It is likely that our Support Squad team will work around three hours per month.
This role will likely start in July 2023 and finish in January 2024.
You will be given training and support to do these jobs well.
We will strive to make these roles as accessible as possible.
Please read the ‘Job Overview’ page to find out more about what these roles involve.
Please read our ‘Job Application’ page to find out how to apply.
If your application shows that you might be suitable for a role, you will be invited to do a short job interview by video call.
This interview will be made accessible.
We have limited roles available.
We hope to offer opportunities to lots of people, but we cannot guarantee that every person who applies will get a role.
If you have any questions you can get in touch with us.
You can email partnerships@communityintegratedcare.co.uk
You can send a text message, WhatsApp message or voice message to: 07866003473
