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Mencap; Orpington; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 31,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

32 days holiday

Discounts at leading retailers

Health cash plans

Interest-free loans

Job summary

Join Mencap’s Belonging team and help turn our commitment to inclusion into practical action. Your work will connect colleagues, share their experiences and encourage involvement. We are looking for someone with experience in communications, engagement or project coordination, who enjoys writing for different audiences and building relationships.

You’ll use Microsoft 365 and approach sensitive topics with care and respect. Interviews will be held early November 2026 onwards.

Qualifications

• Experience in communications, engagement or project coordination.
• Ability to write for different audiences.
• Ability to handle sensitive topics with care and respect.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate communications, campaigns, events and projects.
• Write and edit clear, engaging and accessible content for internal channels.
• Support Belonging Networks and Colleague Forum with meetings, communications and follow-up actions.
• Gather colleague stories and feedback from colleagues with a learning disability.
• Track engagement and suggest improvements to communications.

Tools

Microsoft 365

Job description

Use your communication skills to help colleagues feel heard, valued and included.

Join Mencap’s Belonging team and help turn our commitment to inclusion into practical action. Your work will connect colleagues, share their experiences and encourage involvement.

What you’ll do

- Coordinate communications, campaigns, events and projects.

- Write and edit clear, engaging and accessible content for our internal channels.

- Support our Belonging Networks and Colleague Forum with meetings, communications and follow‑up actions.

- Gather colleague stories and feedback, including from colleagues with a learning disability.

- Track engagement and suggest ways to improve our communications.

What you’ll bring

You’ll have experience in communications, engagement or project coordination. You’ll enjoy writing for different audiences, building relationships and keeping activities on track. You’ll be comfortable using Microsoft 365 and approach sensitive topics with care and respect.

If you care about equity, inclusion and Mencap’s purpose, this is an opportunity to put that commitment into practice.

Interviews will be held early November 2026 onwards.

Here at Mencap, we offer an impressive range of benefits designed to support and reward our employees to ensure that our teams feel valued and appreciated.

Our benefits package offers 32 days of paid holiday (including bank holidays, pro rata), along with a range of perks such as discounts at leading high‑street retailers, access to health cash plans, interest‑free loans, and many more exciting offerings.

For more details on what we have to offer, please see the attached document outlining all the fantastic benefits available to you as a member of our team!

About Mencap

Our vision is for the UK to be the best place in the world for people with a learning disability to live happy and healthy lives.

We're here to support people with a learning disability, their families and their carers. We fight for a kinder, fairer and more inclusive society for people with a learning disability to live in.

At Mencap, everyone works with people with a learning disability either providing support or advice, or alongside one another as colleagues.

Belonging at Mencap is for everyone, every day, everywhere.

Everyone is expected to treat people well and make Mencap an inclusive organisation.

Every day we grow and learn. It’s okay to make mistakes but we learn from them and make changes

Everywhere people will feel respected, valued, and safe to be themselves.

We have Belonging network groups that meet online and are open to all colleagues. The groups include people who identify as Black and Asian, LGBTQIA+, disabled or with a long‑term health condition, women, parents and carers, and their allies.

We want to encourage everyone to apply to work at Mencap and we offer a variety of different contract types and working patterns. We’re not looking for specific experience. It is your personality and values that will make you a great colleague. We will train and develop you to succeed in the role you’re applying for.

Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme

Belonging People Coordinator

Company: Mencap

Salary: £28,160 to £28,160 a year

Hours: Full-time

Location: Orpington, E1 6LP

Job type: Permanent

Posting date: 17 Oct 2026

Closing date: 15 Nov 2026

About Disability Confident Disability Confident is a government scheme. It encourages employers to recruit and retain disabled people and those with long term health conditions.

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