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We are looking for an Assistant Community Manager to join our Community of people recovering from, or experiencing homelessness, The team is small, but very supportive and committed to the residents, ex residents and guests that the community serves. This is an active role for a hands-on person who believes in the potential for community to affect personal change. This is a full time permanent role, mainly based in Kentish Town.
We support our residents through a therapeutic community structure. We aim to offer an accepting framework in which human relationships can be nourished. We work from a main residential house and provide outreach services to those still left on the streets. We are looking for a person to work in the residential house and also have a regular presence on street outreach.
While and interest and feeling for homelessness issues is vital to the work, other experience of social care settings, therapeutic models and communities are also valuable.
The ideal candidate will need to bring diplomacy, humour, willingness and a commitment to the ethos of acceptance and love.
A driving licence isn't absolutely necessary, but would be an advantage. If you have a UK driving licence and are willing to drive in central London, please state this on your cover letter.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Do you have the ambition to make a difference to autistic children and young adults?
At Ambitious about Autism, we stand with autistic children and young people, champion their rights and create opportunities. This is a great time to join team Ambitious, as we continue to progress our innovative and exciting plans laid out in our Time for Ambition strategy.
We an exciting opportunity for a Lead Speech and Language Therapist, who shares our vision. As the charity's Lead, you will be passionate about improving the quality of life for autistic children and young people with additional learning disabilities. You will be a professional lead to the Speech and Language Therapist Team, overseeing the quality of therapy within Ambitious About Autism's education settings, ensuring the teams make a real difference to outcomes for Children and Young People. You will provide line management and supervision to the Senior Speech and Language Therapist and main grade Speech and Language Therapist as required
You will work within a Trans-Disciplinary Team, support the Head of Integrated Services to review and develop the team's approach to meet the needs of students. You will also across all Ambitious About Autism's education settings, evaluating and delivering an excellent and responsive speech and language therapy service. This role can be based at our Ambitious Collage setting in West London or out TreeHouse School setting in North London.
The successful candidate will have:
- Strong Experience of effective line leadership and leading change.
- Experience of using clinical reasoning skills and setting appropriate goals in complex cases
- Effectively applies specialist speech and language therapy skills and knowledge with children and /or young people who have autism and other co-occurring conditions to improve outcomes
- Applies the latest research evidence and evaluative thinking to practice
- Manages a complex caseload and prioritises and delegates effectively.
Please see the full recruitment pack on the link below.
In return, we offer excellent benefits including flexible and hybrid working, very generous holiday allowances, access to professional development, membership fees paid, welcome bonus and more.
This is a fantastic opportunity for an ambitious individual who would like to work for a forward-thinking, open and honest organisation and make a real impact to young people we work with
If you would like more information about the role or would like an informal, confidential discussion please contact Stephen Vickers.
Ambitious about Autism is fully committed to equality of opportunity and diversity and we warmly welcome applications from all suitably-qualified candidates. We welcome applications regardless of race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origins, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, disability, or age. All applications will be considered solely on merit.
Ambitious about Autism is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and successful candidates will be subject to an Enhanced DBS check. As part of our Safer Recruitment checks, an online search maybe carried out in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education.
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What we’re looking for:
- Do you have experience of working within Care & Support?
- Do you have experience of working with vulnerable adults?
- Do you currently hold a UK Driving Licence?
If so, this role is perfect for you!
Here at Peabody, we have a number of opportunities for a Care Support Worker on a Permanent basis in and around Saffron Walden.
A bit about the role:
As a Care Support Worker you will assist people to live well, be independent and connected to their own community. You will support people with kindness and compassion ensuring that they are assisted to make choices and be involved in all aspects of their life. You will work within agreed boundaries, following operational guidance, policies and procedures. You will advocate for the people you support so that they are protected from harm and able to exercise their human rights. Some of the key results for the role include:
- Play an active and key role in achieving the your teams objectives.
- Represent the interests of your team with stakeholders that you meet during the course of your work.
- Be professional and promote positive joint working between relatives, other departments and partners.
- Play your part in ensuring that we deliver a quality service where risk is well managed.
- Understand and abide by the organisation and regulatory rules that apply to your service including those set by the CQC.
This role will require a Enhanced DBS check, a UK driver’s licence and access to a vehicle.
A bit about us:
160 years after it was established, Peabody is one of the oldest not-for-profit housing associations in the UK.
The Peabody Group is responsible for more than 107,000 homes, with around 220,000 residents across London and the Home Counties. We also have around 20,000 care and support customers.
Our purpose is to help people flourish, and we are getting closer to residents by taking a local approach.
We are committed to delivering a responsive and easily accessible repairs service and investing in our existing homes so they are safe and well maintained. Our retrofit projects will make thousands of our homes more energy efficient.
We work with councils and communities to promote economic inclusion, tackle inequality and poverty, and prioritise wellbeing.
Here just a few of the benefits for working at Peabody:
- Up to 25 days’ annual holiday plus bank holidays
- Flexible benefits scheme, including options for Healthcare, Dental care, Critical illness cover, vouchers, technology scheme and access to a discount portal.
- 4 x Life Assurance
- Sleep in allowance
- Competitive salaries that are benchmarked regularly against current market rates
- Professional development by access to "paid for" apprenticeship programs and qualifications
- Two additional paid volunteering days each year
- Family friendly policies
- Up to 10% pension contribution matched 1:1
Contract type Permanent
Weekly hours 24/7 rota basis - 5 days out of 7 including B/H & Weekends
Closing Date: 01 April 2024
Interviews will take place on 10th & 11th April
Are you ready to apply?
PLEASE NOTE: As an employer, Peabody does not provide sponsorship as a licenced UK employer.
To be considered for the position of Care Support Worker, please visit our website and submit both your CV and a bit about why we should consider you for the role.
At Ordinary Lifestyles' our objective is clear: to provide support to adults with learning/physical disabilities as well as those with acquired brain/head injuries to enable them to live independently.
We believe that everybody can live successfully and safely in their own homes in their community if they have the right support. As Registered Manager you play a vital role in contributing to this, making a difference to the lives of the people we support.
We are looking for a professional, motivated and values driven individual, who we can support through the process of becoming a Registered Manager. The successful candidate must have the necessary experience within the Health and Social \Care sector and have relevant knowledge of the CQC and meeting their Fundamental Standards.
Responsible to: CEO
Salary: NJC points 36 to 42
Hours: 35 generally worked during office hours however the postholder will be required to work flexibly including some evenning/weekend work as required.
Contract: Permanent
Location: Failsworth, Manchester
Registered Manager responsibilities:
- To ensure that the organisation meets its statutory duties in accordance with the Health and Social Care Act 2012, Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and all other legislation which affects us
- To participate in the emergency on-call system and ensure that all emergency on-call issues are dealt with effectively
- To attend local authority provider meetings, registered manager meetings and to liaise appropriately with other groups, agencies and authorities
- To monitor incidents and accidents within the organisation and provide information to the Board of Trustees
- To submit Provider Information Returns (PIR), safeguarding and other required notifications to the CQC in the agreed timescales
- To complete necessary referrals and self-assessments required by the funding local authority or CCG
- To keep abreast of changing legislation, best practice and service developments with regards to people with learning disabilities
Service Management and Development Responsibilities:
- To listen to the individuals using the service, and their staff, and to respond, if necessary with the Management Team and Board of Trustees, in a thoughtful and reasonable way in accordance with Ordinary Lifestyles’ values as a person centred service and a good employer
- To ensure that each individual’s person centred support plan and all other documents, e.g. risk management, health action plans etc. are reviewed on a regular basis so that the services continue to find safe and innovative ways of supporting people to become part of their local community
- To provide clear and effective leadership by setting standards, monitoring performance and providing a positive role model to ensure that the service is person centred
- To ensure adequate staffing levels, using workers who understand the needs of the individual(s) they work with, and to have a shared responsibility for recruitment, pay and matters concerning personnel management in consultation with the Management Team
- To provide information, guidance and ongoing supervision to enable staff to effectively and safely carry out their roles. Carry out job consultations, appraisals and monitoring of staff performance
- To help maintain quality by being involved in conducting regular audits
- To work with new individuals and their families who may wish to receive support from Ordinary Lifestyles, to complete needs assessments, accurate financial costings and identify any accommodation issues for any potential new services
- To work with Housing Associations / Landlords to ensure that accommodation meets the needs of the individuals living there.
- To publicise and promote the organisation within the wider community in order to increase awareness of our values and in order to encourage more families to be involved
General management responsibilities associated with this role:
- To work with others to ensure that all management policies and decisions support the agreed vision, mission, values, philosophy and strategic priorities of the charity
- To work with the Board of Trustees, attending meetings and providing them with clear quarterly reports on all aspects of the service
- To contribute along with others to the organisation’s Strategic Action Plan, or other frameworks for agreeing strategy
- Other appropriate duties may be required by the organisation from time to time
This job is for YOU if:
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Have at least 2 years’ working with people with people with learning disabilities in a variety of different situations
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Are experienced in working with families and liaising with relevant agencies
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Meet/are working towards the requirements in order to become a Registered Manager with the CQC
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Have an understanding of the values underpinning supported living
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Are able to support people with all aspects of daily living in a way that respects their dignity and promotes independence and choice
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Have an understanding of the needs and rights of people with learning disabilities
- Have an understanding of anti-discrimination issues
- Have an understanding of Community Care principles and legislation, and the role of independent sector providers and associated regulatory bodies
- Have an understanding of how to recognise and respond to safeguarding concerns
- Have good written and verbal communication skills
- Have skill in promoting and encouraging a “learning culture,” through formal and informal means
- Have staff management skills and abilities to provide positive leadership
- Are self-motivated and able to work on own initiative
- Have a car and a current UK driving licence
- Are able and willing to undertake evening and weekend working as the service requires and to share the ‘on call’ responsibilities within the Management Team
Ordinary Lifestyles operates an Equality and Diversity policy. Applications are welcomed from those who meet all, or the majority of, the above criteria.
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Support Coordinator
We’re looking for an innovative, passionate, and professional individual with excellent communication and organisational skills to join our Stroke Recovery Services based in the Cornwall area.
This is an exciting opportunity to work with stroke survivors and their families to provide Key Worker support following a stroke.
Position: S11121 Stroke Association Support Coordinator (x2 posts)
Location: Home-based, Cornwall however, extensive travel will be required as part of this role (May include team meetings or other work-related meetings)
Hours: Full and part-time (x1 – 35 hours per week post and x1 32 hour per week post)
Salary: Circa £25,500 per annum for full time hours, pro rata for part time hours
Contract: Our services are contracted, we currently have funding for this contract until 31 March 2026.
Benefits: 25 days’ annual leave plus bank holidays (this will increase with service up to 30 days, full time equivalent) cashback and discount scheme, employee assistance programme, learning and development, pension scheme, Life Assurance, Eye Care vouchers, Long Service Award, Tax-free childcare, Health Cash Plan, Working Pattern Agreement, flexible working opportunities available.
Closing Date: 31 March 2024. We reserve the right to close these vacancies early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
Interview Date: To be confirmed
Interviews will be held via video conferencing. Please let us know if this will present any challenges when you email your application.
The Role
The service aims to identify and address the needs of stroke survivors and carers across the stroke pathway, by providing a range of innovative support solutions, supporting them to meet their desired outcomes including Communication support.
About You
The Stroke Association Support Coordinator will:
· Support new stroke survivors and their carers from hospital discharge into the community.
· Provide personalised information, advice and support.
· Support stroke survivors to make informed lifestyle changes which will help them to prevent further strokes.
· Work collaboratively with NHS colleagues and other areas of the community to make a difference in the lives of people affected by stroke.
This role requires extensive travel across a large geographical locality to visit people at home and in community settings. Candidates must be able to demonstrate how they can meet this requirement of the role.
To fulfil the role, you must be a resident of the UK and have the right to work in the UK.
When you click to apply, you will be able to see the full responsibilities and person specification for further information on the role.
Please submit your CV, (including details of your current address), and a supporting statement of no more than two pages, demonstrating how you meet the person specification and what you bring to the role in terms of your skills and experience. Please state your preferred hours in your covering letter.
About the Organisation
Stroke Association. Rebuilding lives after stroke.
When stroke strikes, part of your brain shuts down. And so does a part of you. That’s because a stroke happens in the brain, the control centre for who we are and what we can do. It happens every five minutes in the UK and changes lives instantly. Recovery is tough, but with the right specialist support and a ton of courage and determination, the brain can adapt.
We believe everyone deserves to live the best life they can after stroke. And it’s a team effort to get there.
We provide specialist support, fund critical research and campaign to make sure people affected by stroke get the very best care and support to rebuild their lives.
We’re working to improve the diversity of our team. Because we know that individuality leads to a richer experience for our people and better support for those affected by stroke.
We strongly encourage people from all backgrounds to apply. And we’re particularly looking to increase the number of applications from those with lived experience of stroke and those from under-represented communities.
Every five minutes, stroke destroys lives. Help us rebuild them and join our team.
In 2019, we developed a bold new corporate strategy so that we can rebuild more lives after stroke and make a bigger difference to people’s lives. To help us deliver our strategy and make a real difference, we are looking to recruit talented people to a number of new roles. If you would like to support stroke survivors to rebuild their lives, we want to hear from you!
You may also have experience in areas such as Care Coordinator, Stroke Support, Stroke, Care, Care Worker, Support Worker, Carer, Care Team Leader, Support Team Leader, Volunteering Manager, Volunteer Coordinator, Support Group, Support and Advice, Social Care, Carer Support, Support Service, Vulnerable Adult, Social Care and Support Officer, Rehabilitation Coordinator, Volunteering Manager, Care and Support Officer, Social Care Worker, Health, Health Care, Support Worker, Care Worker, Social Care Support Worker, Residential Support Worker, Relief Support Worker, Support Worker Disabilities, Day Centre Support Worker, Rehabilitation Support Worker, Night Support Worker, Stroke Support Worker, Disability, Disability Support, Stroke.
PLEASE NOTE: This role is being advertised by NFP People on behalf of the organisation.
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This organisation is scheduling interviews as the applications come in. Don’t miss your opportunity, apply now!
Part-Time Case Manager – The Solicitors’ Charity
We’re looking for a part-time Case Manager to join the Wellbeing & Grants team at The Solicitors’ Charity. We are the independent charity that, since 1858, has been supporting solicitors and their dependants in times of need or crisis.
Starting Salary: c£24,000 - c£27,000, rising to c£25,000 - c£28,500 after successful completion of 6-month probationary period. These salary ranges are for 3 days/21 hours per week (core hours 10:00 to 15:00) and dependent on your location.
Flexible working arrangements are possible, including homeworking with occasional attendance in person at meetings, largely in London. Other members of the team work remotely, and we also currently have an office in Southwest London.
The Case Manager role
Working as part of a small team of fellow case managers, you’ll manage a caseload of clients looking for support from us. You’ll have conversations (via phone and email) that allow you to gather information and data so that you have a holistic view of their life circumstances and needs. Working with each client, you will design support packages that help them return to self-sufficiency and independence or will provide longer term support where this is not possible. You will have authority to decide on the awarding of many grants, whilst for others you’ll make a persuasive case to the charity’s Awards Committee of trustees and volunteers. You will ensure appropriate due diligence is carried out to underpin the stewardship of our charitable funds.
You’ll also have the opportunity of being involved in wider projects that help us to develop understanding of how effective our work is and to continue to expand the support we offer.
We’re looking for someone with a minimum of 2 years’ direct experience in a client facing role dealing with people who may be experiencing anxiety, mental or physical health problems, including those in crisis. Individuals may also have financial or career issues which they need appropriate support with. You will have at least this length of experience of having difficult conversations often with people in distress. You will also have a working knowledge of the welfare benefits system.
The successful candidate will also have the demonstrable skills and experience to:
· engage with clients in an empathetic and non-judgmental way, working with complete confidentiality & discretion.
· gather and analyse a wide, and often complicated, range of client data and information and develop recommendations for action based on the analysis.
· summarise recommendations clearly and concisely.
· Plan and organise your work to cope with periods of heavy workload and varied and changing demands.
· work on your own initiative to tight deadlines.
· work both autonomously, and collaboratively with other Wellbeing and Grants team members and more widely in the organisation.
Why should you join us at The Solicitors’ Charity?
We are a small, friendly, largely virtual organisation with an enthusiastic, skilled, and experienced workforce. We are currently concluding the development of a new strategy that will ensure we embed a holistic approach to improving the wellbeing of solicitors in need and their dependants.
Besides competitive salaries we have generous pension arrangements (up to 10% matched employer/employee contributions) and holiday entitlement (30 days plus Bank Holidays for a full-time member of the team). There is an Employee Assistance Programme and staff discounts scheme in place, and we are flexible about working arrangements (hours and location). Case Managers also receive supervision support from an external expert.
To apply please send a CV (max 2-3 pages) with a covering letter (no more than 2 pages) fully explaining how you meet the criteria set out in the job description and person specification to the email address specified.
Closing date: Your application must reach us by noon on Tuesday 2nd April. Please also address any questions to this email account.
We plan to carry out initial interviews in the week of 8th April. These may be held online. Please note, if we receive a high number of applications, we may close this advertisement early. We encourage you to complete your application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
The Huntington's Disease Association is a UK registered charity that supports people affected by Huntington's disease across England and Wales. We provide information, advice and support to families, friends, and healthcare professionals.
We are looking for a Specialist Huntington's Disease Adviser to support people affected by Huntington’s. The role is 35 hours a week and is home-based, living in Wiltshire, Somerset or Bath areas, but will involve extensive travel within the region and occasional travel across England and Wales.
We are looking for an enthusiastic, self-motivated person who is dedicated and committed to the welfare of families affected by Huntington’s disease, developing and improving the quality of care that they receive. They will need to have skills gained within a Health and Social Care profession. Their main responsibilities will be to offer help, information, advice, support and education to everyone affected by Huntington’s disease and professionals involved in supporting them. Learn more about the role in the job pack included.
This is a fantastic opportunity for the right candidate to bring their knowledge, skills and experience to our organisation.
We offer great benefits including 25 days annual leave plus public holidays (pro rata for part time staff), a pension scheme with 3% employer contribution, a tax-free working from home allowance, a Medicash scheme, a flexible working approach, a supportive and positive working environment and fantastic learning and development opportunities.
We are committed to equal opportunities in our recruitment process and in order to find out how well we are doing, we collect monitoring data. This will not form part of the selection process in any way and will be used for monitoring purposes only. The completion of this form is voluntary.
The Huntington's Disease Association is looking for someone with the ability to work in a way that promotes the safety and wellbeing of adults at risk, children and young people. We follow safer recruitment practices to ensure we are safeguarding the people we work with. We require the successful candidate to provide two employment references and undergo a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check for enhance disclosure before joining the charity.
Full details of how we securely handle the data you provide to us as part of the recruitment process can be found in our privacy notice for job applicants on our website.
Click on 'apply' to begin your application. To ensure your consideration, please upload both a CV and cover letter. Your cover letter should include why you are applying for the role and how you meet the requirements of the person specification. The job description and person specification can be found within the job vacancy pack.
Applications submitted without a CV and cover letter will not be considered.
Closing date for applications is Friday 29 March 2024, 5 pm.
Interviews will be held week commencing 15 April 2024.
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Our Welfare Officers provide direct and impactful welfare support to RAF personnel and their immediate family. As a trusted and confidential source of support, you will assist our service users with challenges they are facing, from mental ill-health, difficult relationships, domestic abuse, financial and cost-of-living concerns, resettlement, housing, childcare, equality issues, bereavement, military discharge or deployment and many more - no day will be the same, as such this is a great opportunity to develop your knowledge and skills within the Welfare sector.
Our intervention is provided with consent on a non-statutory basis, and you will work with and engage our service users to develop appropriate interventions for individual outcomes.
Our service is transitioning to become more accessible and inclusive, digital technology plays a key role in this, as such you will use digital technologies to complement and enhance processes and service user experience.
You will play an active role within the community, promoting the service through the delivery of presentations and representing the service at public engagement events. You will also work closely with RAF welfare teams, local authorities, health, education, civilian agencies, charities and other military organisations to ensure the best outcome for the service user.
About the Team
2024 marks 34 years since SSAFA began delivering an independent non-statutory, and confidential service, for the Royal Air Force community across the UK, and this is an exciting time to be joining as we were recently successful in our bid to continue delivering this service.
We are transforming our ways of working to be innovative, to ensure our service is even more inclusive and accessible to meet the needs of a modern RAF.
As part of this transition, we are recruiting to several Welfare Officer vacancies across the UK, including apprenticeship opportunities which will be advertised in due course.
We are a hard-working team, from diverse professional backgrounds. Although we all have our own area of responsibility, we support each other in delivering the best possible service to our military community.
Find out more about the 34 year history of the Service Personal Support & Social Work Service and hear from a colleague at RAF St Mawgan on our careers page.
About you
To thrive in this role you will have relevant experience of supporting adults, families and children/young people. You will be able to take a flexible and creative approach to problem solving. You will have excellent communication skills and be able to deliver presentations with confidence.
You will have used Microsoft Office 365 to a high standard. It is important that you have experience of planning and managing your own workload, with minimal supervision.
It would be advantageous if you have experience of carrying out assessments, preparing plans, monitoring and reviewing outcomes.
There will be some travel required and therefore you will need to be able to drive and have access to your own car.
About SSAFA
SSAFA, the Armed Forces charity is a trusted source of support for serving personnel, veterans and their families in their time of need. In 2022 our trained teams of volunteers and employees helped more than 59,000 people, including veterans, serving personnel (regulars and reserves) and their families.
SSAFA understands that behind every uniform is a person. And we are here for that person and their family, any time they need us and in any way, they need us.
Diversity and Inclusion at SSAFA
SSAFA exists to support a diverse range of beneficiaries within the armed forces community, and we believe diversity within our teams is key to ensuring we can deliver our services effectively. We thrive on differences and believe it is critical to our success as a worldwide charity. SSAFA is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace that seeks to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We therefore encourage applications from all genders, races, religions, ages and sexual orientations, as well as parents, veterans, people living with disabilities, and any other groups that could bring diverse perspectives to our business.
SSAFA is committed to using the Disclosure & Barring Service to ensure we, as an employer, safeguard those we serve.
Closing date: Midnight on 24 March 2024. SSAFA reserves the right to close the vacancy early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications.
Interviews: 03 and 05 April 2024.
Discovery, part of Dimensions, is proud to be independently recognised as a Great Place To Work for a second year in a row in 2023.
We support adults with learning disabilities and/or autism to get more out of life. We do this through person centred support and care, designing and delivering our support in partnership with the people we support, their families and/or those who know them best.
Discovery, based in Somerset, is now becoming a strategic partner working with Cornwall Council to support people with a learning disability and autistic adults in Cornwall.
At first we will take responsibility for improving the way people are supported in a small number of existing residential care homes, with the prospect of supporting more people once we’ve demonstrated success.
The Operations Director is a member of Discovery’s senior team, with direct line management responsibilities for Locality Managers, many of whom will be Registered Managers with the Care Quality Commission. Whilst the position is home based, we expect that the Operations Director will regularly visit the people we support in their home. You’ll guide your team, focusing on ways to improve quality and practice. In addition, you’ll be expected to work closely with the Business Development team to assess opportunities to support more people within the county, including those currently supported Out of Area. You’ll be able to access a wider support network by working closely with peers from Discovery and Dimensions in other parts of the country; There will be regular virtual and face to face opportunities to share knowledge and for personal and professional development.
Interviews will be held on the 11th April face to face in Cornwall.
Why choose Discovery?
Discovery is a not-for-profit social enterprise committed to developing and rewarding our colleagues.
If you are right for this role we will offer you:
- A salary of up to £60,219.86
- Car allowance of £6,000 per annum
- Up to 35 days’ annual leave entitlement (including bank holidays)
- Access to discounts on high street shopping, cinema tickets and meals out
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Pension scheme, Long Service Awards and Life Assurance.
What will I be doing?
As an Operations Director with Discovery, you will be a key leader in our organisation. You will be accountable for all our support for people in Cornwall, ultimately ensuring that each individual gets more out of life. You will lead a team of Registered Managers in delivering high quality support to adults with learning disabilities and/or autism. You’ll also mobilise our support for more people across the county, supporting their transitions and driving service transformation where required.
Further details about the role can be found in the attached job description.
What will I need?
Our Operations Directors are inspiring leaders and passionate advocates for our colleagues and the people we support.
To be successful in this role you will:
- Have experience at middle management level in the social care sector.
- Be results focused; the ability to work proactively, plan, organise, optimise resources and complete targets within agreed timescales.
- Have the ability to demonstrate effective people management skills through delegating, empowering, motivating, and coaching
- Have a demonstrable understanding of the requirements of the CQC and of working in health and social care.
If this sounds like the career move you have been looking for we’d love to hear from you.
As part of the recruitment process you will be asked to complete Psychometric testing ahead of the interview.
If you would like to be a part of our welcoming team here at Discovery, please apply by clicking the button below – upload your CV and a covering letter explaining how you meet the requirements in the skills & experience section of the application. We will then be in touch.
Please note:
- This role requires a basic DBS Disclosure, which will be obtained for you by Discovery.
- Discovery is an equal opportunities employer that values diversity and is strongly committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all employees and applicants for employment. We welcome applications from people from Black, Asian and Ethnic Minority backgrounds.
- Discovery is Disability Confident Committed and we guarantee to interview all applicants who let us know they have a disability and meet the minimum essential criteria for this role. Discovery has been awarded this symbol by Jobcentre Plus to recognise our commitment towards the employment, retention, training and career development of disabled employees.
Age UK Nottingham & Nottinghamshire have an exciting opportunity for Support Worker (Specialist Dementia Day Service) to join the team.
Location: Sybil Levin Centre, Nottingham
Salary: £10.42 per hour (increasing to £11.44 from April 2024)
Job Type: 2 x Permanent (minimum 16 hours per week) and 1 x Maternity Cover (18 hours per week)
Support Worker (Specialist Dementia Day Service) – The Role:
The Sybil Levin Day Service is a specialist SPECAL-Led day service supporting people with dementia and their carers using the SPECAL method.
You will be part of a small team at the Specialist Day Service and use an innovative person-centred approach to support people with dementia.
This post requires that you will provide personal care including assisting people to use the toilet as required and assisting people to have a bath as required.
This role would suit someone able to use their initiative and think creatively, in order to ensure that our service meets the needs of its users in a welcoming and vibrant environment.
Support Worker (Specialist Dementia Day Service) – Key Responsibilities:
- To work as part of a team delivering a day service for people with dementia using the SPECAL method at all times
- To undertake SPECAL training and attend ongoing debriefings
- You will assist with preparing the day service each day prior to service attendees arriving
- To help plan and deliver a range of personalise activities to create a lively and stimulating environment
- Manage, organise and prioritise own workload using your initiative as required and in response to the service priorities and needs
- To have a positive and flexible attitude to your work and to support colleagues to successfully plan and deliver all services at the centre
- By agreement to cover for colleagues work during their absences
- To be involved in supporting and mentoring volunteers
Support Worker (Specialist Dementia Day Service) – You:
- Due to the responsibilities of the post, this particular role is only open to applications from people aged 18 or over
- Candidates should possess excellent interpersonal and listening skills, with an open, sensitive and compassionate approach
- Good organisational and communication skills are essential, as well as a positive attitude and the ability to work well in a busy team
- Ability to deliver a day service using SPECAL principles which include the delivery of personal care
- The ability to undertake SPECAL training and attend briefings on a regular basis
- To commit to supporting people with dementia using the SPECAL method at all times
- Commitment and ability to support the planning, preparation and delivery of a day service
- Good organisational and communication skills, with the ability to maintain clear and accurate paper or electronic records as required
- Able to be flexible with the work pattern to ensure adequate cover at the centre
- To have the ability to work on own initiative, as well being a supportive team member, reporting back to your line manager, as appropriate
- The ability to remain calm in an emergency situation
- Knowledge and understanding of Equality and Diversity issues and a commitment to implement the Age UK Notts Equality and Diversity policy
Support Worker (Specialist Dementia Day Service) - Benefits:
- 24 days annual leave (pro rata), rising one day a year with each year of service (maximum 32 day) + public holidays
- Workplace Pension
- Enhanced Charity Maternity/Paternity pay
- Employee Council
- Continuous professional development opportunities
- Flexible working scheme
About Us:
Age UK is the country's leading charity dedicated to helping everyone make the most of later life. We provide companionship, advice and support for older people who need it most.
Why Work for Us:
Situated just outside the centre of Nottingham, with excellent transport links, Age UK Nottingham has an excellent track record of long serving employees, some of those being with us for up to 25 years.
We enjoy enabling our employees to train and develop within their role and across the organisation by supporting both in-house and external training requests where possible.
Age UK Nottingham & Nottinghamshire promotes equality and diversity.
The closing date for receipt of completed applications is 9am on Monday 11th March 2024. Interviews will be help week commencing Monday 18th March 2024.
To submit your application for this exciting Support Worker (Specialist Dementia Day Service) opportunity, please click ‘Apply’ now!
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Slavery is the fastest growing crime in the world. There are thought to be 40 million people enslaved worldwide and, based on our own research using police data, more than 100,000 victims in the UK alone.
Justice & Care is an anti-slavery organisation working internationally to address slavery and human trafficking, provide release and care for victims, dismantle criminal networks and bring perpetrators to justice. It works to protect communities at risk from traffickers and spark systemic change by working with policy makers and other key stakeholders.
Our Vision: Every captive free. Every perpetrator brought to justice.
Our Mission: By bringing together specialists, we work to prevent slavery, to release and care for victims, to uncover and dismantle criminal networks and to spark systemic change.
Our Values: As an organisation we have a set of core values that underpin and inform all we do:
• We are collaborative
• We are courageous
• We are experts
• We are relentless
• We are pioneering
This role
As a Victim Navigator, you will help broker and manage contact with victims of slavery and human trafficking.
Acting as a bridge between identified victims of slavery and human trafficking and police efforts to bring exploiters to justice, you will help victims across a number of investigations to navigate services and benefits. You will provide them with individualised advice, enabling them to secure the best post-identification support possible.
Additionally, you will learn and share lessons for government and national police strategies, identifying a successful model that could be promoted and replicated.
This role will initially work alongside the current Victim Navigators in both the EMSOU and ERSOU regions to provide support on existing cases. After 6 months, the role will migrate to sit solely within either the EMSOU or ERSOU regions depending on the succesful candidates location.
Your main responsibilities include, but are not necessarily limited to:
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Act as a bridge between identified victims of Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking and police efforts to bring exploiters to justice.
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Provide independent advocacy to victims post-identification, helping them navigate services, benefits and the advice they need across local or national providers
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Help victims to navigate and secure more effective victim support post-identification – including access to statutory help, support and provision through effective advocacy
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Provide strategic advice on victim engagement across a number of investigations
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To actively participate in relevant practice-level multi-disciplinary team meetings;
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Learn and share lessons for UK Government and national police/NGO strategies, as well as prove a model that could be promoted and spread
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Enable the impact of the pilot to be assessed and to inform the improvement of other local/county/regional, national and international services
Key requirements include:
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Have relevant experience working with vulnerable people
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Ability to organise and make things happen
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Passionate to do whatever you can to combat modern day slavery
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It is critical that candidates have lived in the UK for at least five years
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The candidate will need to be willing to travel as needed. They will need to have a vehicle, and valid driver’s license. Mileage costs to be reimbursed.
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Some travel within relevant ‘source countries’ and in line with operational needs will be necessary
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Full Security Clearance Vetting will be carried out by the relevant Police force.
For the full job description, person specification and details of how to apply, please visit our website.
Slavery is the fastest growing crime in the world. There are thought to be 40 million people enslaved worldwide and, based on our own...
Read moreDepartment: Community, Events and Innovation
Location: Hybrid – between home and our office in Aldgate, London
Hours of Work: 37.5 hours per week
Contract: Full-time, permanent
Salary: £37,000 – £40,000 per annum
Closing date: Sunday 24th March 2024 at 11.59pm
Annual Leave: 33 days (plus eight bank holidays)
Benefits:
- Enhanced maternity, paternity, adoption, and shared parental pay
- Family friendly policies
- 8% employer pension contribution (Aviva) or opportunity to continue NHS Pension
- Free health cashback plan (Medicash) employee cover plus up to four dependent children)
- 24/7 virtual GP access (UK registered), plus access to Best Doctors
- Free confidential employee assistance programme (Health Assured)
- Access to wellbeing app (healthy living tips and Bright TV )
- Flexible working options; including hybrid working, flexible working patterns such as part-time, compressed hours and more*
- Learning and development committed (bespoke training, LinkedIn Learning etc.)
- Employee health and wellbeing committed (menopause friendly, disability confident employer etc.)
Background:
Every three minutes someone in the UK develops dementia; a progressive and complex condition that can be devastating for the whole family. One in two of us will be affected by dementia in our lifetime – either by caring for someone with the condition, developing it ourselves, or both.
Dementia UK is the specialist dementia nursing charity that is there for the whole family. Our specialist nurses, known as Admiral Nurses, provide free, expert advice, support and understanding to help families care for their loved one. Every day, Admiral Nurses help families up and down the country to have the best life possible for as long as possible.
Purpose of the job/About the role
This is an exciting opportunity to lead the Virtual Events Team, helping exceptional supporter experiences through acquisition campaigns and stewardship journeys of the virtual events programme.
As the Virtual Events Manager (Supporter Care) you will play a crucial role in supporting the team to deliver stewardship journeys across various communication channels, including email, SMS, Facebook groups and others. You will be responsible for proactively seeking out opportunities to grow our virtual events portfolio through strategic stewardship initiatives. This involves closely monitoring market and sector trends, enabling you to provide informed recommendations to our Senior Events Manager and Head of Community & Events.
You will oversee the virtual events, approving copy and imagery relating to stewardship helping to create, monitor, and report on performance. Your role is to support the event delivery team, ensuring excellence in stewardship and relationship management. Identifying areas for enhancement within the programme, you’ll collaborate with the team to implement new processes. Furthermore, you’ll be integral in the development of the annual virtual events budget.
Collaborating closely with our Fundraising, Marketing, and Communications teams, you’ll spearhead internal stewardship efforts aimed at boosting income, fostering collaboration, and enhancing engagement with our virtual events portfolio. In addition, you’ll take on the role of line manager for the Virtual Events Assistant and Fundraising Community Coordinators, guiding their development and learning to ensure their continued growth and success within the team.
The ideal candidate will have proven experience of successfully delivering supporter journeys and stewardship communications to event supporters. You should be adept at managing large Facebook Groups to maximise income, engagement, and retention with experience of implementing new processes to streamline internal processes. You will also have preciously worked with external agencies and have experience of managing a team to deliver excellent customer or supporter care.
If this sounds like you, join us in making a difference in the lives of those affected by dementia.
Our Culture
In addition to a competitive salary and a generous benefits package, we truly value our people. It’s important for us to create a working environment that looks after our workforce to achieve their full potential. You will become part of a diverse and dedicated team who are supported to use and develop their skills. We recognise and value the key role you will play in delivering our strategic plans for the benefit of those living with dementia.
Our staff have a voice. Representatives from different roles and levels across the organisation positively contribute and lead on our working groups around health and wellbeing, menopause, and equality, diversity and inclusion.
Dementia UK is proud to welcome everyone, we aim for a truly inclusive culture with talented, diverse teams that represent a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We celebrate difference and individuality and encourage everyone to join us and be their whole selves always.
We are Dementia UK — the specialist dementia nursing charity that is there for the whole family.
We know that ...
Read moreDo you want to support people with mental health issues in a moment of crisis?
Are you calm, non-judgemental and able to work effectively with people experiencing distress?
Can you demonstrate our values of Hope, Courage, Together and Responsive and want to be part of our mission to create opportunities for individuals to make choices, find their own solutions, build resilience and manage their whole life and wellbeing?
If the answer to all of these is yes, we want to hear from you.
Job title: Crisis Cafe Coordinator
Reference number: 204
Rate of pay: £24,928 - £26,250 per annum, pro rata
Contract(s): Permanent / Bank available.
Hours: Zero hours, Part-time and Full-time positions available. Full-time is 37.5 hours per week; part time from 15 hours per week.
Working base(s): Crisis Café – negotiable between Watford, Stevenage, Ware and Hatfield – expectation to travel to other sites where necessary with mileage paid (when not working at home base)
Reports to: Crisis Café Team Leader
About the Crisis Service
Hertfordshire Mind Network’s Nightlight Service (Café’s, Helpline, 24/7 Crisis House and Daylight provision) is proud to provide urgent support, crisis intervention and emotional support to people experiencing a mental health crisis in Hertfordshire as an alternative to statutory pathways. We provide support to adults across Hertfordshire 7 days a week, 365 days a year through our helpline, crisis cafes and 24/7 Crisis Centre.
We aim to provide a safe space for people in crisis to talk and feel supported, be listened to without judgement, access relevant support with problem solving and facilitate access to external services when necessary.
Purpose of the Post
As a member of our diverse team, you will work closely with service users in crisis by using a person-centred approach to ensure that each individual is supported with dignity and respect. By honouring the individual experience of each service user, we are able to respect their autonomy as well as encourage and facilitate positive steps towards management of crisis and recovery.
Alongside other Crisis Cafe Coordinators, you will be a key member of the Crisis team, providing effective operational leadership delivering the Nightlight Mental Health Crisis Café and Helpline Service.
You will be ensuring the delivery and development of quality crisis support services and instilling Hertfordshire Mind Network’s values throughout the provision. You will provide management support to Crisis Café and Helpline Mental Health Support Workers and volunteers and support the Crisis Café Team Leader in ensuring practice within the service is safe, effective and person centred.
We offer:
- Annual leave entitlement of 25 days per year pro rata, rising in increments to a max. of 29 days after 5 years employment (plus 8 days Bank Holidays)
- An additional day of leave each year for your birthday following completion of probation period.
- Ongoing training relevant to your role.
- An Employee Assistance Programme.
- Health cover (after 6 months employment) – compensation payment for Optical, Dental, Chiropody and Therapy Treatments.
Whilst experience is advantageous, the most important thing to us and the people we support is having the right values, skills and commitment to delivering quality, person centred mental health crisis support.
Closing date for receipt of applications is 2nd April 2024
Interviews shall take place on a rolling basis.
Interested?
If you would like to find out more, please click the apply button. You will be directed to our website to complete your application for this position.
Equal Opportunities
We welcome applications from all suitably-qualified candidates, irrespective of gender, disability, marital or parental status, racial, ethnic or social origin, colour, religion, belief, or sexual orientation. In addition, during the various stages of recruitment, specific measures can be taken to ensure equal opportunities for candidates with disabilities or special needs.
Hertfordshire Mind Network is committed to the Disability Confident and Mindful Employer charters. We actively recruit staff who have a lived experience of mental ill health. We recognise and value the unique combination of skills, knowledge and perspective that employing people with a lived experience, at all levels across the organisation, brings. We create an environment where the sharing of experiences and vulnerabilities to support others and create positive change is welcomed and work towards breaking down the ‘them’ and ‘us’ culture. The organisation is committed to nurturing peer relationships that allow all staff to thrive.
We are delighted to have been accredited as a Living Wage Employer.
No agencies please.
Location: Hybrid · UK - United Kingdom
About the role
A fantastic opportunity has arisen to join our bank as a Welfare Officer, providing cover as required for the SSAFA RAF Service across the UK.
Our Bank Welfare Officers will provide direct and impactful welfare support to RAF personnel and their immediate family on an ad hoc basis when a full-time member of the team is unavailable to do so.
As a trusted and confidential source of support, you will assist our service users with challenges they are facing, from mental ill-health, difficult relationships, domestic abuse, financial and cost-of-living concerns, resettlement, housing, childcare, equality issues, bereavement, military discharge or deployment and many more - no day will be the same, as such this is a great opportunity to develop your knowledge and skills within the Welfare sector.
Our intervention is provided with consent on a non-statutory basis, and you will work with and engage our service users to develop appropriate interventions for individual outcomes.
Our service is transitioning to become more accessible and inclusive, digital technology plays a key role in this, as such you may be asked to use digital technologies to complement and enhance processes and service user experience.
You will work closely with RAF welfare teams, local authorities, health, education, civilian agencies, charities and other military organisations to ensure the best outcome for the service user.
About the Team
2024 marks 34 years since SSAFA began delivering an independent non-statutory, and confidential service, for the Royal Air Force community across the UK, and this is an exciting time to be joining as we were recently successful in our bid to continue delivering this service.
We are transforming our ways of working to be innovative, to ensure our service is even more inclusive and accessible to meet the needs of a modern RAF.
We are a hard-working team, from diverse professional backgrounds. Although we all have our own area of responsibility, we support each other in delivering the best possible service to our military community.
Find out more about the 34 year history of the Service Personal Support & Social Work Service and hear from a colleague at RAF St Mawgan on our careers page.
About you
To thrive in this role you will have relevant experience of supporting adults, families and children/young people. You will be able to take a flexible and creative approach to problem solving. You will have excellent communication skills and be able to deliver presentations with confidence.
You will have used Microsoft Office 365 to a high standard. It is important that you have experience of planning and managing your own workload, with minimal supervision.
It would be advantageous if you have experience of carrying out assessments, preparing plans, monitoring and reviewing outcomes.
There will be some travel required and therefore you will need to be able to drive, have access to your own car and be flexible to spend nights away from home occasionally within the UK at short notice..
About SSAFA
SSAFA, the Armed Forces charity is a trusted source of support for serving personnel, veterans and their families in their time of need. In 2022 our trained teams of volunteers and employees helped more than 59,000 people, including veterans, serving personnel (regulars and reserves) and their families.
SSAFA understands that behind every uniform is a person. And we are here for that person and their family, any time they need us and in any way, they need us.
Diversity and Inclusion at SSAFA
SSAFA exists to support a diverse range of beneficiaries within the armed forces community, and we believe diversity within our teams is key to ensuring we can deliver our services effectively. We thrive on differences and believe it is critical to our success as a worldwide charity. SSAFA is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace that seeks to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We therefore encourage applications from all genders, races, religions, ages and sexual orientations, as well as parents, veterans, people living with disabilities, and any other groups that could bring diverse perspectives to our business.
SSAFA is committed to using the Disclosure & Barring Service to ensure we, as an employer, safeguard those we serve.
No agencies please. Any unsolicited submissions from agencies will be accepted as a direct application from the candidate and no fees will be payable.
Closing date: Midnight on Monday 01 April 2024. SSAFA reserves the right to close the vacancy early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications.
Interviews: Week commencing 08 April 2024
Job Title – Incubator Programme Officer
Contract - Permanent
Hours - 35 hours per week
Salary – c £30k depending on experience
Location – Coram Campus, London
About Coram
Coram is committed to improving the lives of the UK’s most vulnerable children and young people.
We support children and young people from birth to independence, creating a change that lasts a lifetime.
Coram is the UK’s oldest children’s charity founded by Thomas Coram in London helping vulnerable children and young people since 1739. Today, the Coram group helps more than one million children, young people, families and professionals every year by providing access to the skills and opportunities they need to thrive.
The Coram Innovation Incubator is a vehicle that provides local authorities and their partners with the means to generate, test and scale radical solutions to shared challenges facing the children’s social care sector. As an assistant project manager you will help organise and deliver the Incubator programme, support innovation projects and be part of a team that will improve the lives of vulnerable children. You must be a highly motivated individual, with a desire to make a difference.
(About the role)
Are you an entrepreneurial individual passionate about making a meaningful impact on the lives of vulnerable children and young people? Coram, a pioneering children's charity, is seeking an Incubator Programme Officer to help us grow of the Coram Innovation Incubator.
You will play an important role in driving the success of the Coram Innovation Incubator. Your primary responsibility will be support the delivery of the various elements of the Coram Innovation Incubator, which support its members to build capacity to achieve change to the problems they face in supporting children and young people
Through helping deliver the Incubator's offer, you will enhance membership value and forge impactful collaborations that will improve outcomes in children's social care and bolster the Incubator's reputation. Requirements include experience in supporting project delivery, a track record of planning and delivering events, and good communication skills.
To apply for this role, please click on the 'apply now' button below to complete the application.
Closing Date: 22 March 2024
Interview Date: 26-28 March 2024
Coram is an equal opportunities employer and we believe a diverse workforce enables us to improve the services to the children and families we help. We are genuinely committed to encouraging candidates from all sections of the community we seek to support. This includes those from, Asian, African, Caribbean and other minority ethnic backgrounds, those that identify as LGBQT+, those with disabilities, those with lived experience of care, those with neuro-diversity, and those from other groups who are underrepresented at Coram.
If applicants feel comfortable, we would encourage them to draw on lived experience as well as professional experience in their personal statement as part of their application.
We are committed to the safeguarding of children and where appropriate will require the successful applicant to undertake a check from the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Registered Charity No. 312278.
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