Lived Experience Community Connector

St Christopher's Hospice; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 16,000 - 20,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Training and development opportunities

Health and wellbeing schemes

Pension and life assurance

Job summary

St Christopher’s Hospice is recruiting a Lived Experience Community Connector to help grow inclusive community participation. The role focuses on connecting people with lived experience to initiatives, ensuring their voices influence our work.

You will work with the Community Action Team and Community Support Hub in a hybrid setting to deliver compassionate outreach and engagement. The position requires experience with diverse communities, strong communication skills, and the ability to provide

Qualifications

• Experience in engaging with community members from diverse groups.
• Excellent interpersonal and listening skills.
• Compassionate, empathetic and able to handle sensitive conversations.
• Ability to provide pastoral support and connect people to resources.

Responsibilities

• Understand community needs and coordinate with the team to meet them.
• Recruit community members for lived experience projects.
• Uphold compassionate values and engage respectfully with participants.
• Ensure pastoral needs are met by offering support.
• Promote Community Action projects to public groups, communities and faith organisations.

Skills

Community engagement

Communication skills

Empathy

Pastoral support

Tools

Microsoft Systems

Databases

Job description

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Job Vacancy: Lived Experience Community ConnectorLocation: Sydenham (with hybrid working available)Organisation: St Christopher’s HospiceContract: 21.6 hours

Salary: £18,011.4 per annum (FTE is £30,019)

About the roleSt Christopher’s Hospice is seeking a passionate and organised Lived Experience Community Connector to join our Community Action Team.

This role focuses on supporting community membersparticipatingin lived experience projectsandlearningopportunities. You’llengage withpeople with lived experience in community settings to connect them to initiatives ensuring their voice and views are better represented in our work. Your work will prioritise the participation,inclusionand involvement of people with lived experience in initiatives whichseekto make changes to the way we work, helping to support the quality of our services.

This post-holder will work closely with the Community Support Hub and Lived Experience Programme in the Community Action Team.The emphasis of this role will be on teamworkand excellent communication.

What you’ll do

• Focus on understanding the needs of community members and to work with the team to ensure that they are met where that is possible
• Recruit communitymembersto take part in lived experience projectstowidenparticipation.
• Uphold compassionate values towards anyone who wants to be involved and to work positively and respectfully with community members
• Ensure that people’s pastoral needs are met by offering pastoral support
• Help developtheskills and confidence of people involved in lived experience projects.
• To promoteCommunityAction projects to the public,and relevantcommunity and faith groups,organisationsand charities.

We’re looking for someone who is:

• Experienced in working on projects which involve engaging and working with community members from diverse groups.
• Skilled in engaging with people experiencing sensitive life events.
• A strong communicator who has excellent interpersonal and listening skills.
• Compassionate, empathetic, and able to hold sensitive conversations.
• A passion for supporting individuals and communities through the challenges of end-of-life experiences.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Systems and Databases to support outreach efforts.

Why join us?At St Christopher’s, you’ll be part of a pioneering hospice that’s passionate about supporting people through life, death, and bereavement. You’ll have the opportunity to shape innovative community-led support, while working with a dedicated, compassionate team.

Benefits of joining St Christopher’s

• You will gain astimulating and rewarding role with an opportunity to influence and make a real difference in the community
• Access toexcellent training and development opportunities
• A number of health and wellbeing schemes
• A competitive contributory pension scheme andlife assurance scheme with generous beneficiary plan

Closing Date: 31st August 2026

Interview Date: Provisional date of interview 15th and 17th September 2026

St Christopher’s is an equal opportunities employer, and we welcome applications from everyone regardless of sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, ethnicity, faith and religion, disability and age, although we are underrepresented across the organisation with BAME and LGBTQ+ employees, and thus we encourage applications from these groups. We also welcome hearing from you if you have peer or lived experience, as this is an important feature of our team.

• Ensure our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible
• Communicate and promote vacancies
• Offer an interview to disabled people
• Anticipate and provide reasonable adjustments as required
• Support any existing employee who acquires a disability or long term health condition, enabling them to stay in work
• At least one activity that will make a difference for disabled people

As a Disability Confident Employer we have committed to:

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