Thank you for your interest in the position of Training & Inclusion Manager at Switchboard.

Switchboard is a charity for LGBTQ people looking for a sense of community, support or information.  We connect people and support them directly through specially developed Switchboard services or link them to other specialist organisations. Switchboard’s dedicated staff team run a number of services that offer information and support, for LGBTQ communities.

We are looking for an experienced facilitator with a passion for LGBTQ issues and the ability to bring people on a journey to understanding how they can improve inclusion, wherever or whoever they may be.

This brand new role is part of our Health & Inclusion Project, and is all about building relationships with other organisations and supporting clients to improve their inclusion knowledge and practice in an intersectional way, but with a focus on our expertise – LGBTQ communities. This role will involve building up a network of clients, designing and delivering a range of training packages, and supporting a pool of lived experience trainers and facilitators to be part of the work at every stage. We need someone with the interpersonal skills to build trusting relationships, and the organizational skills to manage multiple clients from a wide range of organisations.

If you are interested in applying, please read the application pack and return an application form to us by 5pm on Tuesday November 30th 2021.

For your information, interviews for this post will be held on Wednesday December 8th 2021.

About Us

Hightown is a charitable housing association operating principally in Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, Berkshire and Buckinghamshire. We believe everyone should have a home and the support they need, so our aim is to build new homes and to provide excellent housing and support.

We currently manage over 7,500 homes and employ over 1,000 full and part time staff from our head office in Hemel Hempstead. We have an annual turnover of £90 million and a development programme that will deliver over400 new affordable homes each year

About the Role

We currently have an opportunity for an Assistant Manager at one of our registered care schemes in Newton Longville. We are lookingfor a caring, enthusiastic individual who enjoys helping others and seeing the difference their support can make to enable individuals to lead independent and fulfilling lives. We providehigh-quality careand support to adults with learning and physical disabilities.

Your role as an Assistant Manager will be to support the management team to ensure the home runs smoothly on a day-to-day basis and you will be involved in moving the service forwards and developing new ideas. You will help provide supervision, coaching and support and take a hands on approach to care and support management.

About You

You will:

• be passionate and driven with the desire to provide high quality, person centred services.
• have experience in the delivery of care and/or support services to vulnerable adults and will ideally have experience of supervising staff.
• Have a `can-do` attitude and driven by the desire to make a difference
• have the ability to recognise the wishes and needs of vulnerable adults and communicate effectively using different methods according to people`s needs.

This is a fantastic development opportunity for anyone aspiring to be a Scheme Manager.

You will need to be able to work shifts as part of a rota system which will include weekend and bank holiday working.

You must be able to work as part of a team to deliver an excellent service to the people we support and be flexible in your approach to work. You will have a commitment to equality and diversity and take a positive approach to supporting people with learning disabilities.

All applicants must hold a valid UK driving licence.

Benefits

In return for your hard work and commitment to our service users, we offer a considerable benefits package. This includes:

• Generous annual leave allowance of 33 days per year, including statutory bank holidays, rising to 35 days with service
• £26,034 pa
• Regular support from your line manager and colleagues
• Annual bonus based on satisfactory performance
• Monthly attendance bonus on top of your basic salary
• Annual salary and cost of living review
• Commitment to health and wellbeing with the Five Ways to Wellbeing
• Ongoing professional development and support to deliver outstanding support
• - Workplace pension scheme and life assurance of three times your annual salary
• Refer-a-friend scheme: Earn a £130 bonus for each friend you refer to work for us
• Access to Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) for use at work
• Access to COVID-19 vaccinations
• Friendly and supportive team environment
• Employee assistance helpline
• Mileage paid for car usage
• Fully paid DBS
• Structured rota so you know your work pattern in advance

If you are interested in joining our friendly team, please apply below.

In accordance with CQC regulations, appointment to this position will be subject to satisfactory DBS, reference and medical checks.

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Covid-19 Information

During the pandemic we are following Government guidance regarding reducing transmission rates.

This means we are taking every precaution to keep you and everyone involved safe during the recruitment process.

From 11th November 2021, all new recruits to this care home will have to demonstrate that they have had a full course of an MHRA approved COVID-19 vaccine or are medically exempt from the requirement are eligible to work in the care home. These matters can be discussed at interview.

We are looking for someone passionate and motivated to join the Management Team in our Surbiton Home as a Hospitality Services Manager. The ideal candidate will be someone who strives for excellence and the provision of a quality service.

You’ll be responsible for overseeing food & beverage service, housekeeping, front of house (Reception) and engineering, to ensure everyone who lives in and visits our Home has the best possible experience.

Purpose of role:

• To pro-actively lead and manage the Hospitality Services in the home (all non-clinical services).
• Accountable for the environment, engineering, laundry, housekeeping, administration, catering (including the dining experience) and local IT (in liaison with the relevant professional teams.

Key responsibilities: 

• Lead and effectively manage all non-clinical services.
• Responsible for all non-clinical compliance and quality activities ensuring that the charity remains compliant with legislation.
• Act as a visible, pro-active, collaborative member of the Senior Leadership Team to develop and deliver an outstanding care experience with particular responsibility for supporting the creation of a culture of cost consciousness.
• Deliver an outstanding service to support the home pursue / maintain an ‘outstanding’ rating by the Care Quality Commission.
• Accountable for the monitoring and reporting of all Key Performance Indicators addressing negative changes promptly and escalating as necessary.
• Pro-actively identify and take responsibility for the resolution of issues before they impact on the quality of care and service.
• Manage the coaches / minibuses including control of the fuel costs (via fuel cards)
• Manage the teams associated with Hospitality Services including but not limited to: Setting objectives, Holding regular supervision sessions (every 4-6 weeks), Undertaking appraisal twice a year, Producing all necessary documentation, Proactively managing staff performance to address performance concerns.
• Role modelling the behaviours expected of a senior leader.
• Engaging with all necessary training including Dementia training.
• Any other duties that may be reasonably required in line with your role as requested

Although we are a charity we offer a generous package: 

• Salary of £43,504 per annum
• 37.5 hours per week
• Occasional evening and weekend working by agreement
• Equivalent of 25 days holiday per annum plus bank holidays (pro-rata for part-time)
• Part-time and job share applicants will be considered
• Employer Pension Contribution of 7.5% with matching Employee contribution of 5%
• Life insurance of 3 x salary (until age 70)
• 2 months full occupational sick pay, 1 month half pay before statutory sick pay
• Access to appropriate professional bodies and payment of membership fees after 6 months of employment
• Learning and Development – fully funded opportunities to support you in your role 

Do you want to help build a world where everyone feels part of a community? 

Are you a creative, energetic person?

Do you have experience in using the power of play to help children develop socially, culturally, creatively and physically?

If you answered yes to all of the above, this could be the role for you!
 

We’re looking for a children’s programme facilitator with strong delivery experience, enthusiasm for children’s development, and experience in designing and delivering children’s activities using arts, physical activity, gardening and food play. The children’s programme facilitator reports to the Delivery Manager and works in a team alongside two children’s programme assistants.

This part-time post plays a vital role in growing and delivering our thriving children’s programme. It is an exciting opportunity to support us to deliver our strategy by building excellent, trusting, and appropriate relationships with children and their parents/ guardians, as well as strong partnerships with volunteers, schools and other community organisations. This post will also act as point of contact for queries regarding our children’s programme via the generic inbox and various social media accounts.

Therefore, the successful candidate will have a high level of experience leading children’s play and education. If you are outgoing, creative, flexible and take initiative, this is a fantastic opportunity for you.

What we do

Time & Talents is a lively, busy community centre in the heart of Rotherhithe, London SE16.  Set in a leafy heritage building, and ‘T&T2’, our second venue in Surrey Quays Shopping Centre, we offer something for everyone. With a history of 134 years of supporting people of all ages in Rotherhithe and Bermondsey, we bring people together for mutual support, fun and friendship, with a wide range of services and activities for older people and other adults, along with children and families’ programmes and a range of volunteering projects.  We are at an exciting stage of development. Our income has grown substantially in recent years and this growth has enabled us to develop our programmes and activities to reduce loneliness and social isolation in the local community by supporting more older adults, children and families.

The role

In this role, you will:

• Develop, deliver, and support a weekly, 10-hour programme of creative and physical activity
• Broaden access to extra-curricular/cultural learning through play for local children aged 0-11

With the following Key Responsibilities:

• Run and support weekly activities that enable local children of all backgrounds and abilities to access the same opportunities to develop socially, culturally, creatively and physically
• Design and deliver Holiday Clubs during school holidays, coordinating lunches and breakfast packs for children and families to take home and working with partner organisations
• Directly run and deliver some activities, and support volunteers and partners to deliver others
• Maintain excellent two-way relationships with families and community partners
• Ensure that care for the child is put at the heart of all activities and that high standard, safe activities are delivered
• Design and deliver digital activities for children to take part in at home including considerations of digital access and literacy

About you

You are passionate about the power of community to connect and support people, and you like to work in collaboration with others. You are creative and excited to try new things, with a genuine commitment to children’s learning through play. You have energy and enthusiasm – a real people person, with demonstrable experience of leading informal creative children’s play and education across a range of ages (0-11) including nature and garden-based activities. You have an early years/ primary teaching qualification or a CWDC recognised, relevant Level 2 qualification, e.g. NVQ 2 in Playwork. You’re flexible, accountable, take responsibility, are highly organised and skilled in multitasking and balancing priorities. 

About us

We are an energetic, experienced, and passionate team of 17, with a strong sense of shared purpose and a lively sense of humour. You’ll have the chance to make a big contribution to a growing, ambitious and innovative organisation which has doubled its reach and impact in recent years.

This role is 3 days per week (22.5 hours), with flexibility for regular evening and occasional weekend working.

Time & Talents is wholly committed to inclusion and diversity, and to building a culture and environment where everyone is appreciated for the unique person that they are. We actively encourage applications from a broad range of backgrounds and experiences.

If you would like an informal chat about the job, please email:  recruitment @ timeandtalents .org. uk  (without the spaces) with your phone number and a suitable time for us to call.

The closing date is 09.00 on Monday 15th November; interviews the weeks commencing 22nd and 29th November

TO APPLY: All applications to be submitted online via CharityJob. Send a CV and a cover letter of no more than two sides of A4, explaining why you want the job and how your experience relates to the job description and person specification.

IMPORTANT: We’ll use cover letters to assess applications alongside CVs. Please ensure you take the time to include a well-written cover letter as detailed above. We won’t assess applications without one.

COVID-19: the safety and wellbeing of our current and future employees remains a top priority, therefore while interviews are planned to be in-person, they will be conducted remotely by video if necessary.

We are excited to be recruiting a Programme Officer to join The Scholars Programme. In our ‘Join The Club’ strategy we have set out our ambition for university access, focusing on the two goals: working with more pupils than ever before and extending our support across the student journey; this will only be successfully delivered by working together with our key stakeholders. The Programme Officer role is essential to delivery of high-quality school placements working collaboratively with our PhD Tutors and school partners. The role will be key to continuing to deliver The Scholars Programme to more pupils in our next strategy.

This role will manage a cluster of placements, working with teachers and university widening participation staff to arrange programme logistics, and managing a team of PhD tutors to design and deliver their courses in schools. To manage their placements, Programme Officers will deliver aspects of our provision directly (e.g. PhD tutor training, university trips) and will support PhD tutors to deliver others (e.g. course design, tutorials). They will build and maintain excellent relationships with teachers and tutors and will oversee the sign-up process for schools they work with to run future Scholars Programme placements. They will coordinate all programme activities with schools including overseeing data collection to help track pupil outcomes and progress. This role will involve a mix of weeks that are mainly desk based and weeks that involve travel across the UK. The role requires a driven and dynamic team player, with successful experience of school teaching, academia or programme management. They will be positive and pro-active, with a commitment to delivering excellent standards. They will champion the charity’s values and embody them in interactions with colleagues and partners. They will be comfortable building relationships with a wide range of stakeholders and managing logistics through our online CRM system.
This is a great opportunity to join the The Brilliant Club team, as we become the UK’s largest university access movement. We are looking forward to meeting great candidates who are excited to join us as we help more young people progress to university and thrive when they get there. We think it is important that our charity reflects the lived experience of our beneficiaries, and we want to be an organisation where employees from any background can thrive. We particularly welcome applications from disabled, Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME), Lesbian, Gay, Bi, Trans including non-binary (LGBTQ+) candidates, and candidates from low income families. These groups are currently underrepresented at The Brilliant Club and we are committed to increasing representation and diversity at the charity.

Role Specific Knowledge and Skills

• Essential – Knowledge of educational interventions, including impact management 
• Essential – Knowledge of the school and university sectors, including the university access agenda
• Desirable – Teaching skills, including delivering training to adults
• Desirable – Stakeholder management skills that include selling programmes to school leaders

Role specific Experience and Qualifications

• Essential – Qualified teacher (QTS or above) or academic research experience (PhD or above) or substantial experience of delivering a university access programme
• Desirable – Experience of managing education programmes, including design or delivery
• Desirable – Demonstrable experience in university access 

Person Specification 

Time and Resource Management

• Excellent organisational skills, with an ability to prioritise and manage time effectively
• Ability to be flexible and adapt to changing priorities 
• Ability to identify opportunities to save time/resource
• Manages projects, with appropriate levels of time and resource input

External Stakeholder Knowledge and Management

• Confidence handling enquiries from external stakeholders and adapting approach to meet different needs
• Actively shares useful information about stakeholders with internal colleagues at all levels 

Communication

• Excellent written and verbal communication
• Confidence presenting and delivering teaching to a range of audiences including school-aged children and adults

Initiative and Problem Solving

• Proactivity in seeking to enhance processes and identifying emerging risks
• Ability to spot inefficiencies in systems and suggest or implement improvements
• Responds quickly to solve problems, seeking input from relevant internal stakeholders

Developing Self and Others

• Self-reflective and committed to own professional development

Project Manager

• £39,768 rising to £42,771 in project year three (includes £4,000 per annum London weighting)
• 35 Hours per week FT (Open to Job share) 
• Plus 8% employer pension contribution
• 30 days annual leave 

About Us

The Civil Society Alliance is a new project which will empower civil society organisations, especially marginalised voices far from the Westminster, to scrutinise and influence constitutional, administrative and legal changes taking place in the UK policy landscape following the UK’s withdrawal from the EU. This new Alliance will bring civil society voices together from all parts of the UK and will be a key vehicle for navigating our complex and challenging post-Brexit landscape. The post holder will be contractually employed by the Human Rights Consortium who are initiating the Civil Society Alliance as a collaborative project with the Human Rights Consortium Scotland and the Wales Civil Society Forum on Brexit, but the work and direction of the Alliance itself will be influenced and developed in close collaboration with the broad range of civil society organisations that we anticipate will form this wide alliance.

About You

We seek an experienced and dynamic individual to lead this new project and manage the Alliance on a day-to-day basis. The Project Manager is a senior position within this new project and the postholder will be expected to be able to operate with a large degree of independence in managing both the programmatic and financial administration of the Alliance. A key part of the role will be developing and expanding the network of civil society organisations within the Alliance and in developing and maintaining relationships with key external stakeholders at Westminster, so we need an individual with appropriate experience and capacity to work with both civil society and elected representatives and decision makers. The work of the Alliance will focus on helping civil society navigate the post-Brexit legal and constitutional landscape with an eye on maintaining important standards and practises that are important to civil society. So, a background in research and analysing the impact of Brexit on the UK would be particularly useful in this role. For further details on the type of individual we are seeking please see the full Job Description and Person Specification.

To Apply

Complete and return the Application Form and Monitoring Form available for download below.

Closing date: 5pm, Monday 8th November 2021

Please view the Job Description and Person Specification below.

ALDER HEY CHILDRENS CHARITY

About us

Alder Hey Children’s Charity raises vital funds to help make Alder Hey Children’s Hospital a truly world-class, patient-friendly hospital for the 330,000 patients and families we care for every year.

The charity helps to fund a range of activities and projects that are designed to enhance and improve the lives of our amazing young patients. This includes the funding of specialist medical equipment to ensure our brilliant surgeons and clinical staff have the most up to date and cutting edge technology available and funding hi-tech distraction equipment designed and proven to reduce pain and anxiety in our patients. We also fund a range of programmes and special projects such as our ward musicians, our on-site magician and the play specialists we have on every ward.

In Spring 2020 we launched our £3m Children’s Mental Health Appeal. Our 7 in 10 Appeal highlights that 70% of young people with a mental health condition are currently missing out on vital mental health interventions at a sufficiently early age. The Appeal is aiming to raise vital funds to enhance inpatient and community mental health services at Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust, enabling more children to access the treatment they need at the time they need it, an already vitally needed service which is seeing increasing demand due to the impact of Covid-19.  We have also recently launched our new Surgical Neonatal Appeal to raise £2.5m towards a brand new, state of the art Surgical Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at the hospital.

About this role:

This is a rare and exciting opportunity for an experienced Trusts and Foundations Manager to work with an enthusiastic and experienced team here at Alder Hey, the UK’s busiest Children’s Hospital.

We’re looking for a natural relationship builder, someone who is passionate about fundraising with lots of experience securing high value gifts from trusts and foundations. You’ll also be an inspiring manager and an excellent collaborator, who enjoys working to co-create visionary propositions around the charity’s strategic priorities. If you’re excited by the sound of this, we’d love to hear from you!

The role will lead Alder Hey Children’s Charity’s trusts and foundations income stream including developing and implementing the Trusts and Foundation’s strategy, annual plan and budget for sustainable growth and contributing to our capital fundraising campaigns and the development of ‘wow’ projects.

You will also be responsible for managing a wide variety of internal stakeholder relationships with senior colleagues in Alder Hey Children’s Hospital.

Key Responsibilities will include:

• Develop and deliver the fundraising plan for the Trusts & Foundations income stream, including creating and meeting income targets and KPIs.
• Lead, line-manage and develop the Trusts and Foundations Team, including carrying out regular 121s, development reviews and annual appraisals.
• Build, manage and maintain a full and consistent pipeline of prospects and ensuring timely progression through each stage from identification to stewardship.
• Manage a diverse portfolio of our biggest funders, both existing and new, delivering excellence in relationship management to meet an individual fundraising target from high value trusts and foundations.
• Ensure reporting requirements and funding criteria for all grants are met, corresponding effectively with funders using creative and engaging methods of communication.
• Lead and work with colleagues and clinicians in the development of funding proposals, including world leading innovation projects and capital appeals.
• Be an active and supportive member of the Alder Hey Children’s Charity team, contributing to the team’s development and working collaboratively with colleagues and volunteers.
• Be the lead specialist in Trusts and Foundations fundraising and maintain strong knowledge of relevant legislation and good practice.
• Develop and maintain specialist knowledge of trends and developments in the sector, through completing relevant training, reviewing relevant press and publications and keeping up to date with industry news.
• Gain and maintain in-depth knowledge and understanding of the Charity’s work, priorities and future plans and represent the Charity at functions and events, to promote the objectives of the Charity.
• Be an outstanding advocate for Alder Hey Children’s Charity in line with the core values of the organisation.
• Any other reasonable duties as required by your line manager.

Our Values

Here at Alder Hey Children’s Charity, our values guide the way in which we work. By being courageous, working together, being passionate about our work, and making sure that we are creative in what we do, helps us to deliver the support necessary so that our Hospital can continue to deliver the very best care for our young patients and their families. Our values are:

Courage: we try new things and take risks to innovate and drive forward new ideas. We have the courage to speak up and take a stance. We are accountable, responsive and responsible. We are unstoppable.

Together: we work together as one team, sharing our knowledge and learning. We work in partnership with patients, families, supporters and colleagues. We are respectful, celebrate diversity and empower each other to achieve our aims.

Passion: we are passionate about what we do and why we do it. We work together to share and grow. We inspire others.

Magical: we are fun, creative and child led. We create special moments, provide little extras and go further for our brave young patients.

Location

We’re open to this role being a mix of home working and office based (our offices are located on site at Alder Hey in Liverpool).

How to apply

You can apply by clicking the link below. Applications must include your CV and a covering letter which explains how you meet the requirements of the role.

Additional information is included within the Job Description and Person Specification. 

Closing date: Sunday 14 November 2021

Telephone interviews: Thursday 18 and Friday 19 November 2021

Video interviews: Monday 29 and Tuesday 30 November 2021

Alder Hey Children’s Charity will make every endeavour to make any reasonable adjustments for applicants who require assistance in carrying out their duties due to a disability. Alder Hey Children’s Charity is committed to equal opportunities and positively welcomes applications from all sections of the community. Alder Hey Children’s Charity is committed to safeguarding children and vulnerable adults. The post holder may be required to complete an enhanced DBS disclosure check.

The Brilliant Club is a provider for the National Tutoring Programme (NTP) which seeks to address the impact of COVID-19 on students’ learning. The Brilliant Tutoring Programme aims to re-engage and rebuild students’ confidence in core subjects by working with a subject expert. To support the delivery of the Brilliant Tutoring Programme, The Brilliant Club is looking to recruit a dynamic and driven individual as a BTP Programme Officer.

They will manage clusters of placements, work with teachers to arrange programme logistics, and manage a team of tutors to deliver curriculum focused content courses in schools. They will build and maintain excellent relationships with teachers and tutors, coordinating all programme activities including overseeing data collection to help track pupil outcomes and progress.

The role requires a driven and dynamic team player, with experience of success in school teaching, academia, or programme management. To manage their placements, they will deliver aspects of our provision directly (e.g., tutor training) and will support tutors to deliver others (e.g., tutorials). They will build and maintain excellent relationships with teachers, which underpin The Brilliant Club’s collaborative model. 

The successful candidate will champion the charity’s values and embody them in interactions with colleagues and partners. They will be comfortable in building relationships with a wide range of stakeholders and managing logistics. They will co-ordinate programme activities, track progress and deliver results. They will be positive and pro-active, with a commitment to delivering excellent standards.

This is a great opportunity to join The Brilliant Club team, as we become the UK’s largest university access movement. We are looking forward to meeting great candidates who are excited to join us as we help more young people progress to university and thrive when they get there. We think it is important that our charity reflects the lived experience of our beneficiaries, and we want to be an organisation where employees from any background can thrive. We particularly welcome applications from disabled, Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME), Lesbian, Gay, Bi, Trans including non-binary (LGBTQ+) candidates and candidates from low-income families. These groups are currently underrepresented at The Brilliant Club and we are committed to increasing representation and diversity at the charity. 

The Providence House Trust is seeking to appoint a part-time Children & Families Worker.

The Providence House Trust (PHT) is a vibrant and diverse youth centre in Falcon Road, Battersea, close to Clapham Junction station, working with children, young people, individuals and families from the neighbouring communities.

As a community-based Youth Charity, youth engagement is at the heart of everything Providence House does and the Children and Families Worker (CFW) will lead our efforts to engage children in and through various creative pathways. Working closely with the PHT Director, you will explore how best PHT can engage with children and families and develop work with children creatively as a way to express and increase wellbeing, Christian faith and life transitions. 

Ormiston Families’ HM Prisons Family Support Service
Based at either HMP Highpoint, HMP Warren Hill or HMP Hollesley Bay

The role of the cluster manager is to lead, manage and develop high-quality family support services across your prisons, ensuring we provide dedicated support, information, and, where appropriate, signposting through our welcoming and family friendly visitor centres. The centres are designed to be a hub of information and support, offering a confidential space to talk with one of our specialist staff and a gateway to support families with keeping in contact with their loved ones during their sentence whilst assisting in navigating communication channels with the prison, where appropriate.

In addition, you will oversee case management of work with prisoners and group delivery sessions in addition to 1-2-1-based sessions, such as ‘story book dads’. You will work closely with various HMP Governors to ensure our service delivery is contract compliant and agile to meet changing needs/demands within a complex environment.

The post holder will play an active role in recruiting, coordinating, and supervising to ensure our services are reaching appropriate standards and achieving relevant outcomes for children, young people and their families.

You will be a highly motivated and organised individual with case and employee management experience and good knowledge of current legislation regarding young people and families. You must have a relevant professional or vocational qualification at NVQ level 3 or equivalent.

For further information and to apply, please visit our website via the Apply button.

Closing date: 9am on Monday 8th November 2021

Ormiston Families is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults at risk and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. DBS checks or police vetting will be required for relevant posts.

We are an equal opportunities employer; we value diversity and welcome applications from all sections of the community.

Islington Giving is seeking an experienced Digital Communications Manager and it is an exciting time to join us! The next few years promise to be pivotal in taking Islington Giving and the place-based giving movement even further. The current post holder has made a significant contribution to the development and leadership of fundraising for Islington Giving, including over the challenging pandemic period, and the new post holder will inherit a strong development and communications baseline.

This role is varied and interesting, calling upon a broad range of digital skills.  No day is ever the same, and the opportunities to test, learn and innovate are at the heart of what Islington Giving is all about.

Islington Giving’s growing fundraising programme involves inspiring the local community to support local projects. We engage trusts, foundations local businesses and residents. As a result, we have raised over £8m since 2010. We raised and distributed over £1.1m in 2020 alone, including through our Islington Giving Crisis Fund focused on support throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.

Islington Giving is an ambitious initiative which has attracted widespread local and national interest. London’s Giving, inspired by Islington Giving, was launched in October 2014 and there are now 20 similar ‘Giving’ schemes across London.

We are seeking an experienced Digital Communications Manager to build on a recent rebrand and some super successful digital marketing campaigns over the last 18 months. So, if you

• have a proven track record in designing and delivering digital engagement strategies to raise funds?
• thrive in small teams where you can work with colleagues on a variety of projects and campaigns?
• are you passionate, as we are, about addressing issues around poverty and inequality?

Then you might be just the person we are looking for to join our small and ambitious team, so please do download the application pack and apply for this exciting role.

YMCA Essex are seeking a talented, driven and caring Childcare professional to help oversee and expand its Childcare work across Essex.  Because we are a charity we do everything with a heart and mind for helping others, working predominantly with funded children in our Childcare.  If you would like to make a difference in small lives across Essex, this job could be for you!

Our current activity is mainly based around Chelmsford and Colchester, although there are opportunities for expansion county-wide.  The Childcare Manager would oversee 50+ staff across multiple Out-of-School, Nursery and Holiday Club settings, aided by the Head of Childcare and Youthwork and the supportive YMCA Essex management team.

YMCA Essex is a long-established and growing charity with opportunities for advancement and personal development, good employee support, and a fun and dynamic team to be a part of.  If you feel you have the drive, determination, character and talent to join us then we very much look forward to receiving your application.

Do you have experience of helping young people and their families through community-based interventions?

Newport Mind in partnership with Community Youth Project and Literature Wales is delivering an innovative Comic Relief funded project, helping to support young people and their families with their mental and emotional health through restorative and resilience-based approaches.

We’re looking for a new addition to our team to pilot this project with young people aged 7-10 and their families. You will deliver a combination of 121 support sessions to young people, their families along with creative group workshops.

Hours: Full-time (35 hours per week). Applications for part-time work will also be considered. Three positions available.

Salary: £44,000 to £52,000 per annum FTE, depending on experience, plus 6% contributory pension scheme

The Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families supports distressed children and their families through innovative therapeutic practice and research, training and promoting awareness of mental health issues. In April 2019, the Centre opened its new Centre of Excellence located in King’s Cross.

The Centre’s Schools Division has a substantial track record of delivering training and services into schools with national reach and reputation. The Centre has a long-standing and established relationship with Brent Council. The current service is going in to its third year of delivery and the team have warmly welcomed a significant expansion which has opened up a number of new opportunities within the service.

Brent – Wellbeing and Emotional Support Team
The Wellbeing and Emotional Support Team (WEST) is a service commissioned by Brent Council focusing on improving the wellbeing of children and young people aged 4 to 18 years (or up to 25 years with a Special Educational Need or Disability) in identified vulnerable groups including children and young people with learning disabilities, at risk of exclusion, looked after children and those who are at risk of multiple vulnerabilities such as child sexual exploitation, gang affiliation and domestic violence.

We are currently recruiting three Child and Family Specialists. This is an opportunity for a qualified Clinical/Counselling/Educational Psychologist, Family Therapist or Child Psychotherapist to join a highly respected and rapidly growing team. The role will be suited to those individuals with skills and experience working with hard-to-engage populations who may have withdrawn from education and their local community. The aim is to offer consultation and/or deliver a wide range of brief evidence-based interventions for children and families accessible to all members of the Brent community jointly with allied professionals. There will be opportunities to develop school-based clinics offering direct intervention for young people and reflective practice spaces for staff. The three post-holders will also be involved in training to schools and multi-agency professionals. Opportunities to work across the Schools Division will also be encouraged.

The work will be a mixture of face-to-face work in community settings (predominantly schools) and home-based virtual appointments. Some attendance at meetings and supervisions may be required at the Brent Civic Centre (Engineers Way, Wembley HA9 0FJ) and at the Anna Freud Centre (4-8 Rodney Street, London N1 9JH).
The Centre values diversity and aims to have a workforce that reflects this. We encourage applications from all sections of the community and would actively seek to increase thediversity of the Brent Wellbeing and Emotional Support Team to reflect the population we work with in Brent.

Contract duration
Permanent.

Closing date for applications
Midday (12pm), Friday 29 October 2021.

Notification of interview
Shortlisted applicants will be notified no later than Friday 5 November 2021.
Please note: due to volume of applications expected, we will be unable to notify unsuccessful candidates.

Interviews
Interviews will be held on Friday 12 November 2021.