Consultant

Hello, we’re Kaleidoscope. We’re a four year old start-up working to improve health and social

care in the UK and we’re looking for someone to join our team full-time.

Since birth, we’ve grown from 2 to 21 great people. We now have a webinar studio, a ping pong

table and a set of ridiculously heavy doors that used to hang in a pub in Peckham. But what

hasn’t changed is that we’re still a social enterprise using our earnings to further our mission: to

work with others to create a future which is connected, kind and joyful.

We meet this mission by advising clients across public, private and voluntary sectors on their

strategy, supporting networks and partnerships, and designing and facilitating a whole host of

face-to-face and digital events.

We also play with ideas that help our mission, even if it costs. We run Melting Pots, both regular

and super-sized . We’ve awarded the world’s largest health science-fiction writing prize . We’re

committed to thinking up new ideas and seeing which work wonderfully, which flop fantastically,

and which should never be touched by anyone, ever again.

We continue to be busy, which is why we’re looking for someone else to join our team.

Our first requirement is that you’re kind. Life is too short to work with people who aren’t. Second,

you’ve got to be somewhere on our wavelength. We’re not a normal organisation . In fact we

think the basic template of energy-sapping, soul-crushing, computer-says-no, normal

organisations is fundamentally broken.

Beyond this, there is no ‘right’ sort of Kaleidoscopian. We want a company inclusive of different

and unique people. If you’re reading this wondering ‘is it really for me-’please get in touch to

chat . You can even read a snapshot into Kaleidoscope life here.

We’ve got some flexibility about the amount of experience you’ll bring. You’ll have at least a

couple of years of relevant work place experience under your belt and you’ll be able to tick

some specific boxes, such as:

- Proactive organisational brilliance. You can turn a jumbled mess into a well-ordered

reality in just a jiffy, leaving clients to wonder just what all the fuss was about.

- Well-polished charm. You can make friends with all sorts of people from hospital

porters to medical knights, smoothing feathers and soothing fevered brows.

- A flexible and proactive attitude. You’re happy to take responsibility for a range of

different tasks with an ability to adapt quickly.

- Facilitation skills. You know how to work with people to get to a successful outcome, all

the time dodging elephant traps and escaping cul-de-sacs.

- Have a splash of NHS know-how, or dabbled in a touch of evaluation. Although not

a deal-breaker, we’re particularly keen to hear from you if you have operational

experience in the NHS, or have some social science research or Monitoring and

Evaluation experience. In fact, we’re so keen for these, we’re happy to chat secondment

opportunities if that might be appealing.

- Able to tolerate a truck-load of ambiguity. Kaleidoscope is no fairy-tale; we’re a small

business with no no secret stockpile of cash, and no right to exist.

Examples of the exciting things similar roles have done in the past include:

- Leading consultancy projects, for example with British Red Cross in bringing 30 different

organisations together to tackle loneliness.

- Leading internal Kaleidoscope development, for example in defining how we run all

manner of events, and supporting colleagues to know what to do.

- Scoping Kaleidoscope ‘mission’ projects, for example in designing a video-prize to

explore what future generations will think of us.

But I’m afraid if you’re not kind, well, we might as well part company now.

At Kaleidoscope pay is decided through a mix of individual decision and whole organisation

discussion. When you join, we'll make you an offer in the range of £27,000- 37,000 based on

your skills and experience. Within your first year you will “own” your salary decision: we can tell

you more about that if we meet. This is a permanent, full-time position, based at our offices in

London SE8.

To apply, write a 500 word blog on what, if you’ve spent a wildly successful first year with us,

you’ll have achieved and be most proud about. Email it, along with a note on your relevant

experience and confirmation that you have the right to work in the UK, to

hello@kscopehealth.org.uk by 9am, Thurs 13 February 2020.

We do not want further information (such as education, hobbies, address) beyond this! Please

only put your initials and day and month (not year!) of birth at the top of both your blog and work

experience.

What questions do you have- Do look at our website and email us - hello@kscopehealth.org.uk

- if you have specific queries we can help with.

Thanks very much - we hope to hear from you.