Full-Time 3 months (possible extension)
Are you an ambitious, creative and influential leader or practitioner who is passionate about reducing the number of children being removed into care by supporting women to bring about change in their lives?
Pause is a national independent organisation seeking to prevent the damaging consequences of thousands more children being taken into care each year by working with women who have experienced, or are at risk of, repeated pregnancies that result in children needing to be removed from their care. The programme gives women the chance to pause and take control over their lives, breaking a destructive cycle that causes both them and their children deep trauma, as well as reducing huge costs to society and the taxpayer. Pause has set up programmes around the country and One25 have secured funding to run their 3rd 18-month pilot programme in Bristol.
Practice Lead Role
As a Pause Bristol Practice Lead you will provide leadership to this exciting programme to ensure the implementation and delivery of an integrated package of health, therapeutic and social support. You will lead a small team, working flexibly and collaboratively to improve outcomes for vulnerable and marginalised women. You will be passionate about changing entrenched social issues, and will respond by ‘doing things differently’.
Please note: we may consider part-time application (3 days minimum), we would also consider secondments from relevant partner agencies. This could be from Children's Services, Adult Services, Health, Probation, Mental Health Services, or other relevant voluntary services.
Benefits: Generous leave (33 days annually including bank holidays) plus up to 13 additional days’ time off in lieu; flexible working hours; and great job satisfaction.
Hours: 37.5 hours a week over 5 days (including occasional evening and weekend commitments)
Contract: 3 months in first instance to cover staff illness
Closing date: Rolling applications – we will review and interview as we receive suitable applications. Please submit as soon as possible.
Interviews: To be scheduled with individuals if successful application.
Expected start date: As soon as possible
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Office/IT Coordinator
37.5 hours per week
Band B £19,651 - £25,857
Permanent
Bristol (temporarily remote during Covid-19) with occasional travel to the London office
The Role
This role will be responsible for coordination and delivery of all IT, facilities and office management for SafeLives. They will work as a team with the H&S officer and the London office lead to ensure that all staff whether office based or remote working have the equipment and working environment which allows them to perform their roles. They will also support the HR officer in administrative tasks where required.
This role sits within the Human Resources Department and is a critical support function across the entire organisation. The Office/IT Coordinator will also work closely with our PA’s to the Executive Team to ensure the smooth operating of the business across both of our offices and remote working locations.
Benefits include a generous package including: 25 days’ holiday a year plus public holidays, employee pension scheme with 4% employer contribution, Cycle2Work scheme, 365 days a year Employee Assistance Programme.
If this challenge sounds as exciting to you as it does to us and you believe you have the qualities we have described, please take a look over the job description and submit a 500-word cover letter, CV and equal opportunity form.
Closing date: 9.00am on 26 October 2020
SafeLives is a committed provider of equal opportunities for all, please see our job description for full details.
No agencies please.
Operations and Development Lead/ Manager
- Location: Home Working & CHAS (Bristol) Housing Advice Service, The Assisi Centre, BS5 0RE
- Hours and leave: 28-35 hours per week (negotiable) 25 days leave + Bank Holidays (pro-rata)
- Salary: £24,313 - £35,934 (pro rata) dependent on experience
- Contract: 12 month fixed term ( extension subject to performance and funding)
About CHAS
We are a small yet highly ambitious charity, and have used the last few years to begin a journey of substantial change and growth. We’ve formalised our internal structures, expanded our staff team and developed a growing portfolio of additional projects and partnerships. CHAS have a special place in Bristol and the local community, offering a high-quality advice service and community partnership projects since 1965.
CHAS offer advice, advocacy and practical, hands-on support to prevent homelessness and keep people in their homes. The need for our service and quality housing advice has never been higher, and it is vital we grow sustainably to play our role in helping Bristol meet this need, maximise our impact and influence real change.
Our values and culture
With dedication and commitment, CHAS work creatively and inclusively to put people first. CHAS empower people to take action, resolve issues and move forward with their lives. We are committed to doing a lot with a little, and driving forward positive change; this feeds into our ethos within the charity and our partnerships.
Within our small team of six, we have a strong culture of mutual support. We have been working remotely during lockdown, but stay in regular contact. CHAS has a flexible working policy so staff organise their working day around core hours. We frequently have interns and assistants working alongside us, driving forward new ideas and projects such as our new digital strategy.
The opportunity
Our Covid-19 response has resulted in a larger staff team, increased project and contract management, more reporting, and ultimately more referrals into the advice service.
A key new funder, Community Justice Foundation, has committed to fund the first 5 months of this post, to ensure CHAS is able to continue responding in a managed way. This key new position will secure the charity's sustainability, while supporting the staff and service to develop and grow.
As CHAS' Operations & Development Lead/ Manager you will be ambitious, passionate and committed, with the energy and experience to play a key role in shaping and influencing the next stage of our development. This is a new position within the charity, inheriting many of the operational responsibilities that currently lie with the Director. There is therefore ample opportunity to shape the role and make it your own.
Working closely with the Director and Advice Service Lead, you will ensure the charity’s day-to-day operations run efficiently as we develop and grow, supporting processes such as IT, quality, finance & reporting; whilst driving change and development within the service. The position will be supported by our team of external consultants (HR, IT, Fundraising) and trustees with specific expertise (including H&S).
About you
We are advertising a Lead/ Manager position, as in addition to relevant experience we are seeking the right energy and enthusiasm to drive forward positive change. You might be a senior manager looking for a new, dynamic challenge, you might be relatively new to management but in possession of the skills and aptitudes to excel in this role.
Either way, you’ll have exceptional communication skills, a positive attitude and the ability to thrive in a creative, collaborative and committed team. We are looking for a highly organised and process- orientated person to fulfil this role.
What we offer
- An enhanced holiday entitlement
- A flexible working policy
- 5% employer pension contributions
- Subject to successful completion of a probation period, enhanced sick pay
- Access to our Employee Assistance Programme
- Development opportunities
The deadline for application is 5pm on 26th October.
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This is an exciting opportunity to join Soundwell Music Therapy Trust, a small innovative charity operating in the South West specialising in adult mental health.
Soundwell is the only specialist adult mental health music therapy charity in the UK. Since 2002, we have used music to help people whose lives are seriously affected by mental illness. We also work with unpaid carers in need of support and respite. Services are provided free of charge to clients.
We work in many key disadvantaged communities, with most of the work now based around Bristol and Bath. In response to Covid-19, we are also currently operating a phone support and online service, and the early results have been extremely positive.
Our current CEO is due to retire from his post during 2020 having completed 5 years’ service, and after overseeing many important changes to the service operation and its associated funding.
The Trustees now seek an inspirational leader to build on the Charity’s success to date and take Soundwell to the next level. In 2022, Soundwell will be celebrating its 20th Anniversary, and a special fundraising and awareness campaign will be launched in Autumn 2021 – an excellent opportunity for the new CEO to establish him/herself and lead the charity forward.
The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate proven excellence in the following:
- Leading, managing and supervising a workforce
- Fundraising and strategic development within a charity
- Communication, with the ability to talk with passion and clarity about the benefits of Music Therapy for adults with high mental health needs to a wide audience
- Forging partnerships with other external organisations and providers
Application Process:
For an application pack, please download directly from this job site, or alternatively go to our website , and click on ‘Jobs’ in the ‘About Us’ section.
If you would like to have an informal discussion, please contact Glyn Berwick, CEO.
The closing date for all applications is 30th October at 5.00pm. Initial interviews will take place online from mid-November.
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Community Development Worker (Male) – Men’s Mental Health
Hours: 37 (5 days) per week
Contract: 3 years (fixed term)
Salary : £21,757 - £23,800
Second Step is a leading mental health charity in the South West offering housing, support and hope to thousands of people with mental health and complex needs. Our goal is to inspire hope and deliver change for everybody and every community we work with.
The Men’s Mental Health project will work with communities across Somerset to raise awareness of men’s mental health in the community. It will also create spaces for men to talk about their own mental health and facilitate access to local services and networks, including Open Mental Health provision.
This exciting new role will empower and support individuals and organisations to take action to support men’s mental health and suicide prevention. Reflecting the principles of asset-based community development, it will work with community partners to develop targeted provision, community events and online engagement activities to raise local awareness of mental health and support services.
About You
We are looking for an experienced male community development worker, with experience of working with people with mental health and complex needs. You will need to be a confident communicator and facilitator, who thrives in a collaborative environment and is able to engage a wide range of stakeholders.
Due to the specific requirements of this role, this post is exempt under the Equality Act (2010), Part 1, Schedule 9 (Genuine Occupational Requirement).
For more information on the role and person specification please see the Role Profile attached to this advert. To open the Role Profile please click on ‘1 Document available’ at the top of the screen.
Closing date: 3rd November 2020 (midnight)
Interview date: 17th November 2020
For more information and to apply please see our website. Second Step is committed to Equal Opportunities and welcomes applicants from all sections of the community and from people who have personal experience of using mental health services.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.