Sector: Charity, Advocacy, Disability
Job Role: Self-Advocacy Coordinator
Salary: Full-time Salary: £27,417
Pro-rata Salary: £11,856 (based on 16 hours per week)
Hours: 16 hours per week (hours may be negotiable)
Town/City: Bridgend
Contract Type: Part time, fixed term until 30.09.2027 with the possibility of extending.
Closing Date: Friday 7th August 2026
People First Bridgend’s Background:
People First Bridgend is a small, charitable incorporated organisation founded in 2016.
We are part of the world-wide People First self-advocacy movement. People First aims to give people with learning disabilities greater voice and control so that they may lead a rich, full life.
What we do:
We advocate for people with learning disabilities. Our activities include:
- Self-advocacy and Peer-support Groups
- Independent Professional Advocacy
- Awareness Training
- Easy Read document conversion
We work with other People First groups in the region, and we are a member of All Wales People First, which gives local groups a voice with Welsh Government.
We have strong links with our local authority and play a key role in ensuring people with learning disabilities have a voice in their plans.
About the Self-Advocacy Coordinator post:
The Self-Advocacy Coordinator helps the Operations Manager link People First’s activities together and with relevant activities outside of People First. It ensures our beneficiaries get the right support at the right time. It is principally a support role and aids all other roles in PFB to be more effective.
Principle responsibilities include:
- Coordinate and facilitate PFB’s self-advocacy group.
- Support our members’ attendance and input into self-advocacy activities, such as the local and regional service development workstreams.
- Strengthen links with known advocacy referral sources, such as BCBC social services, BAVO community navigators and HMP Parc, to ensure awareness of PFB’s services.
- Assist the Operational Manager in establishing new partnership-working/referral sources.
- Maintain links with the wider People First movement.
- Source and support participation in new, relevant opportunities that would provide mutual benefit to PFB and partnership-workers.
- Identify and bring relevant topical issues to PFB’s self-advocacy groups, and from the self-advocacy groups to relevant parties.
- Provide regular, up-to-date monitoring information as requested by Operational Manager and funders.
How to apply:
If you are interested, please visit our website to download a job pack:
Please return completed applications, or any queries you have about the role to info@peoplefirstbridgend.co.uk.
The application closing date is midnight on Friday 7th August 2026
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