Leicester’s Homeless Charter is looking for someone who shares our passion for making a difference.  The Charter is a partnership of over 100 organisations and aims to provide a vision, values and principles to solve homelessness in the city, and to support those affected by it. More information can be found on the Leicester Homelessness Charter website.

It aims to reduce duplication, improve communication between those working with homeless people, and to raise awareness of services and how the public can help. We have received National Lottery Funding to appoint a Project Coordinator to develop its objectives going forward.

The post will be employed by Together Leicester, but given current circumstances will have the option of work flexibly including working from home. Secondments for Partner Organisations would be welcome.

You will support the day-day co-ordination of Charter activity and manage a range of project work outsourced to partners. Facilitating the administration and secretariat of the Charter. The post holder will be able to win the respect of a wide range of partners through excellent interpersonal skills.  The post holder will be well organized and flexible in achieving the Charter’s work plan.

You should bring with you:

• Ability to plan and organise resources
• Ability to communicate at all levels with excellent interpersonal skills
• A passion to put clients at the heart of your work to provide a service that responds to their interests and needs
• A team player but who can be creative and use own initiative
• Have an understanding of the communities and people of Leicester
• Motivation to achieve goals whatever the setback.

You will also to travel across Leicester for the role.

To apply please visit our website and download an application form.  Full job description and person specification can also be downloaded from our website. 

Completed applications should be returned  by 9am on the 13th December by email. 

Interviews will be held on 16th  December.

Are you looking for the most interesting retail job on the high street?

Can you bring creativity, great communication skills, passion for helping our customers and your team, and deliver great sales results?

If so, then this is the role for you!

Retail Operations and Shop Manager – Loughborough

Hours - 37.5 hours per week to include regular Saturdays

Salary - £22,330 per annum

Driving licence and access to a vehicle is essential

If you are truly customer service focused, thrive on a challenge, enjoy working with a diverse group of people and want to take responsibility for the success of your own shop, then our role at Rainbow’ flagship Loughborough shop could be perfect for you.

As well as managing the Loughborough shop you will play a vital role as second in command to the Head of Retail, providing valuable support to our network of shops throughout the East Midlands helping them to maximise income and ensuring policies and procedures are followed.

With a varied and ever-changing stock profile, you can enjoy the hands-on involvement of sorting, processing, displaying and selling donated items alongside our own range of Rainbows merchandise. You will take responsibility for the management of the shop, coming up with ideas for generating donated goods and increasing income. You will present a professional face of the charity on the high street, lead and develop a team of volunteers and use your initiative to maximise the income of the shop.

This role is perfect for someone looking to use their drive, passion for retail, initiative and management skills to raise vital funds for the East Midland’s only hospice for Children and Young People. Alongside a friendly and supportive place to work, Rainbows will offer you excellent professional training to ensure you achieve your potential within a successful and busy retail portfolio.

To be successful in this exciting and varied role you will have retail experience at a management level. You will have the relevant skills to exceed customer and donor expectations, and the drive to influence the continued success of this shop.

A driving licence and access to a vehicle is essential as you will be expected to travel to all our stores across the region.

Rainbows is a local East Midlands charity dedicated to providing family support and direct care for Children & Young People who have life-threatening and life-limiting conditions. Every year we need to raise funds to ensure we continue to make a difference and our retail shops are an important part of this.

Closing date for applications: 8th December 2021.

Rainbows is an equal opportunities employer.

Job Title: Fundraising Officer (Trusts and Grants)

Hours: 37.5 hours, permanent

Salary: £26,000

Location: Leicester, Nottingham or Birmingham / hybrid working with 1 day a week in the office

We are working in partnership with FareShare Midlands, the region’s largest food redistribution charity, fighting food poverty and hunger by tackling waste. They source good quality food that is surplus to requirements from retailers and manufacturers and rely on an army of volunteers to help redistribute food to 550 frontline charities, such as school breakfast clubs, community centres and organisations supporting those who are homeless, unemployed, socially isolated and recovering from addiction. These organisations provide meals and food parcels to more than 35,000 vulnerable people every week.

They are now seeking a Fundraising Officer to lead on the creation, submission and management of a portfolio of trust and grant applications in order to achieve financial targets in line with their growth plans. This is an exciting time to join FareShare Midlands as they develop and expand their operations across the East and West Midlands.

The successful candidate must be able to demonstrate:

• Experience of securing gifts from trusts, grants and/or foundations, from researching and writing compelling funding applications, to impact reporting
• Experience in prospecting for new business, stewarding funders face to face and managing donor relationships
• Experience of delivering against an income targets
• Experience of customer care in a charity or sales environment
• Ability to keep good administrative records
• Confidence in presenting to a range of audiences

We are seeking a creative individual with excellent communication, persuasion and writing skills. Building good relationships, with the ability to meet objectives and deadlines, and experience of working well in a team is essential.

For more information, please contact Katherine Anderson-Scott, Charisma Charity Recruitment.

Applications should be submitted through the Charisma website and include your CV and supporting statement.

We welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds. We do not discriminate on the basis of disability, race, colour, ethnicity, gender, religion, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, or other category protected by law.

Closing date: 6th December. However, applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis, so please apply without delay to avoid disappointment.

Interviews: TBC

Action Homeless are committed to ending the cycle of homeless and ensuring everyone has a decent and safe place to call home. Our mission is to ensure that no one has to sleep rough on the street in our City. We are passionate about ending street homelessness, and empowering people to achieve higher living standards and quality of life. 

We are looking for people with experience of working with vulnerable adults and providing housing related support, as well having experience of managing a small staff team.  You may already be in the homeless sector, or have experience working with adults in challenging situations and leading teams, and have transferable skills and competencies which we are looking for.

This is an exciting opportunity to join an organisation that is working towards reducing rough sleeping, and ending cycles of homelessness in Leicester, supporting people to access suitable crisis and longer-term accommodation.

As a Service Team Manager you will:

• Be responsible for the day to day management of one of our projects
• Be responsible for a small staff team ensuring they have the necessary support, supervision and training required for their roles
• Be responsible for and the reporting of the projects outcomes
• Liaise with other agencies and ensure the project provides a safe and secure environment
• Need to work flexibly and on occasion unsocial hours as our services operate 365 days a year

To be successful you will need to have:

• An understanding of working with people experiencing homelessness or vulnerable adults and supporting them to access services.
• Experience of working within a housing related support environment and leading a team
• Management experience
• Excellent organisation and time management skills in order to remain strongly outcome focused and meet the projects requires with resources.
• A commitment to working in a challenging environment with the ability to be highly flexible throughout the working day.
• Good communication skills and confidence when representing Action Homeless to external organisations and forming strong working relationships with partners; being able to challenge them when required.
• Strong IT skills with the ability use online recording systems, client management systems, Excel, and Word, using all forms of technology.

While most of your time will be spent working office hours Monday-Friday, the role does require flexibility to include supporting your teams, who will work across the services, as they work on rotas, which include some early morning and late-night shifts, and weekend working. Being able to move across the City quickly and efficiently is essential for this post and a clean drivers’ license would be preferable, due to the locations of our properties on taking part in our on-call and emergency response system out of hours.  

As well as a great working environment, we also offer:

• Support to develop your case working skills and specialist knowledge.
• Extensive training and personal development opportunities
• Employee Pension scheme where Employee contributions are matched by the Employer up to 5%
• Generous benefits such as; annual leave, sick leave, compassionate leave, time off for dependants and death in service benefit.

The University of Leicester is seeking a dynamic Director, with a passion for championing diversity and inclusion, to take the Attenborough Arts Centre (AAC) to the next stage of its development both as a cultural leader in the sector but also as a ground-breaking, creative hub, fostering public engagement in the arts for university staff, students and communities.

Our Director, Michaela Butter MBE, will shortly be retiring after 12 years leading the AAC through a major period of growth supported by Arts Council England as a National Portfolio client. Audiences have increased from 25,000 in 2010 to over 110,000 and the venue doubled in size with the creation of a major gallery extension for the display of contemporary art.  A new commissioning programme, craft shop and award-winning education and outreach programme were established, alongside a new Creative Fellowship programme to foster links between artists and academic research.

The AAC now has a national reputation for the quality and range of its inclusive and multi-disciplinary programme, which fosters creative risk taking and talent development whilst removing barriers to access, working closely with a strong network of local, national and international creative partners.

The successful candidate will lead on developing a cultural policy for the wider university with links to research and teaching excellence.  You will have a proven track record both as a strategic thinker but also as somebody who delivers results. You will have strong negotiating and influencing skills for fostering creative and funding partnerships; recognise the opportunities and challenges of working within a complex environment and command respect from both staff and artists in recognition of your dynamism and strong inter-personal skills.

Interviews will take place on Thursday 13th January 2022 with an expected starting date of mid- April 2022 subject to notice periods, to allow time to feed into the next NPO funding application.

HR Advisor

Location: Can be based anywhere in England, a hybrid working setup, partly office based, partly home based - diary flexible as per business needs

Salary: £27,250 - £29,697

Working Hours: 35

Working Pattern: 09:00 - 16:30, Monday to Friday

About the Role

Within this exciting and varied role, you will be responsible for providing advice, guidance, and support to senior managers on all aspects of engagement, policies and procedures including recruitment, inductions, PDRs, disciplinaries and grievances, change management programmes which will include consultation responsibilities along with any other matters that arise.  Project work will be undertaken from time to time within this role.  You'll also have a strong focus on making the role more proactive, rather than spending most of your time firefighting.

You will help our managers champion our values as well as help them to better manage their people supporting through coaching and guiding when needed . You will also liaise with our Shared Service Centre to help implement important changes to process and support,.

Please see the job description for more detail (this can be viewed on our website or once you click apply)

The Successful Candidate

You will be a strong team player, with great attention to detail.  You won't be afraid to challenge in a professional way across the organisation at all levels.  You'll be keen to bring new ideas and past experiences to the table to help improve the way we currently do things.

You will be able to demonstrate sound experience of working in a range of generalist HR areas, working with stakeholders across a number of different functions to resolve situations quickly and effectively and advising both managers and employees/volunteers on a range of generalist HR queries across the life cycle of an employee, also supporting change management programmes, consultation and experience of TUPE would be useful.

About Us

St John Ambulance works at the heart of communities, providing first aid, keeping people safe at events and working alongside the NHS in response to 999 calls.

Every year, hundreds of thousands of people learn how to save a life through our training, education and youth programmes.

We are a team of 1,600 employees and 18,000 volunteers, united by our goal of saving lives through first aid.

Want to join a great team?  We look forward to receiving your application.

If you are a current St John Ambulance employee, please apply here: Click here

For all other candidates, or SJA volunteers wishing to apply, please click here

Please note: St John does not accept speculative CVs and will only review CVs sent in application for an advertised vacancy.

Recruitment Agencies: We are not utilising the services of recruitment agencies for this vacancy and will accept direct applications only. Any speculative CVs submitted without invitation will not be considered for this role.

You’ve got a good understanding of mental health issues and really enjoy supporting others to achieve independence and lead their own recovery. All you need is the perfect environment to put your skills to great use. Welcome to Richmond Fellowship as a Recovery Worker.

Richmond Fellowship is part of Recovery Focus, a national group of charities highly experienced in providing specialist support services to individuals and families living with the effects of mental ill health, drug and alcohol use, gambling and domestic violence. We know that recovery can look and feel very different to each and every one of us. But we also know that if we provide the right support, at the right time, we can inspire recovery nationwide and that recovery is possible for everyone.

Right now, we are looking for someone like you to work at our Mental Health Wellbeing and Recovery Support Service in Leicester City, Oadby, Wigston and Blaby. Based in Leicester City our Life Links service provides a number of different support networks allowing people to choose how they receive support dependent on personal needs including an information line. Not only are we committed to putting them at the heart of everything we do, we recognise they should be involved in decisions that affect their future too. That’s why we need you to inspire and support them to lead their own recovery. So, whether it’s helping to come up with a personal support plan that will see them achieve their goals and aspirations, developing domestic and finance management skills or accessing work, leisure or educational opportunities, your empathy, enthusiasm and compassion will have every chance to shine. Entering accurate case notes onto our IT system will be important too. And, when it comes to regularly liaising with GP surgeries, the local council, charities etc. or promoting the service within the community, again, we'll count on you.

The chances are, you already work in the mental health field. What is for certain is that you’re caring, consistent, flexible and creative, work well under pressure, know how to connect with people at all levels and, like us, are keen to break down the stigma of mental health. Oh and you’re happy working independently or, as a valued member of our team, being part of a weekly rota system and available for on call duties. Previous work experience would be advantageous but is not essential as training will be provided.

As a recovery worker you will provide one to one support to people with a mental health condition and give them the tools that they need to overcome their difficulties through their recovery journey.

Based at our City Centre office you will carry your own case load where you will meet people either in their own homes, in the community or at base. You will devise support plans with your client and work towards goal orientated outcomes to help empower your clients and equip them with the self help tools that they need to help manage their mental health.

You will provide telephone support to people where you will provide information, advice and navigation to callers accessing our service.

You will attend community events, outreaches and surgeries to help raise the profile of the project and to help reach those individuals who cannot access our City Centre offices.

The salary for this post is £17,549.00 per annum.

This is a permanent full-time role requiring the post-holder to work 37.5 hours per week.

Recovery Focus is committed to working towards equal opportunities and we select staff solely on merit irrespective of race, colour, national or ethnic origin, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, age, social class, religious belief, disability or history of mental health or addiction problems. If you need support to apply for the role or adaptions at interview please contact the recruitment team to discuss.

So, are you ready to take on this rewarding role that comes with some really great benefits?

Closing Date for applications is 10 December 2021. (We reserve the right to close vacancies before the specified closing date, should a large number of applications be received).

We are committed to increasing our diversity and we would welcome applications from those with lived experience and/or who are from a BAME background.

Leicester Dance Theatre Ltd (LDT) trading as Aakash Odedra Company is looking for a Chair of the Board. Our new Chair will have leadership experience and be passionate about the performing arts. LDT is an organisation firmly rooted in its local community but with an international reputation for creating and commissioning boundary-pushing and award-winning dance works using the British-Asian experience.

As the new Chair of LDT, you will have:

• A passion for dance and Leicester
• The experience and commitment to lead the Board as we refine and develop the strategic direction of the organisation
• Experience building relationships with multiple stakeholders whilst articulating our values, relevance, maintaining and promoting our reputation

In leading our Board you will:

• Ensure that we meet our responsibilities for effective and focused governance
• Enable the Board to provide professional and constructive challenge
• Support the Executive and Artistic Directors in the delivery of our organisational goals

You will play an essential part in creating the environment for our organisation to flourish. This will mean that your leadership of the Board both in meetings and otherwise will set the tone of our communication and support our Executive Team in the delivery of our work.

We anticipate the time commitment will be two days per month on average and whilst the role is unpaid, expenses can be claimed. Further details are included in the Candidate Pack.

Board meetings are being held remotely at the moment, but we hope that you will be able to join us for meetings in Leicester in due course.

We believe that diversity in organisations leads to better decision making and want our Board to be representative of the communities we serve. LDT strives to be an inclusive organisation that welcomes Board members from a wide variety of backgrounds. We positively encourage and welcome applications by people from minority ethnic backgrounds and people who identify as D/deaf, disabled and/or neurodivergent.

We hope you will consider joining us.

Closing date for applications: 5.00 p.m. Thursday the 9th December 2021

This isn’t your standard Carer job, this is a truly unique opportunity for someone to be the Carer and Personal Assistant for a high profiled disabled ex-rugby player, employed directly by the client, and based in his home in the beautiful Leicestershire countryside.

The client has a high-level spinal cord injury resulting in being paralysed from the neck down and is on a ventilator 24/7, so the successful candidate will play a key role in enabling him to do what he does best, and that’s give back to others, through his successful charity. Plus, he doesn’t take life too seriously and wants to live life to the full, with plenty of travel, nice food and is great company too.

Care Assistant Responsibilities:

The role would involve assisting the client with all aspects of his daily care, including personal care, travel and work commitments. He may have a spinal cord injury, but still leads a very active lifestyle, so requires a strong and reliable team around him.

The environment that you would work in is not clinical, it’s a home. The client would like to keep it that way. Family is very important to him so the ideal candidate would have similar outlooks on life.

Care Assistant Requirements:

The ideal candidate would thrive on new challenges as well as relish the chance to be involved within his outstanding team. To be successful in this role, you’ll need to be a strong team player who’s reliable and hardworking, with impeccable standards of care, and great company.

Although previous caring experience would be an advantage, it’s not essential as you’ll receive all the training you need, but you would be required to hold a full UK driving licence.

If you feel you are outgoing, fun-loving and believe you could enhance this person’s life, they would love to hear from you!

Location: Cold Overton, Leicestershire
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: 140 hours per month with 6 nights per month.
Salary: £10.50 per hour (days), £9.10 per hour (sleeping nights)

You may have experience of the following: Support Worker, Rehabilitation, Spinal Injury, Charity, Charities, Not for Profit, NFP, Senior Support Worker, Social Care, Healthcare Assistant, Care Staff, Care Assistant, Community Development, Care Worker, Community Support Worker, etc.

Ref: 104 960

You have recent experience in mental health field (or a related area) and a good understanding of service user development and the Recovery and Personalisation agenda. All you need is the perfect environment to put your skills to great use. Welcome to Leicestershire Life links a Volunteer Coordinator.

Richmond Fellowship is part of Recovery Focus, a national group of charities highly experienced in providing specialist support services to individuals and families living with the effects of mental ill health, drug and alcohol use, gambling and domestic violence. We know that recovery can look and feel very different to each and every one of us. But we also know that if we provide the right support, at the right time, we can inspire recovery nationwide and that recovery is possible for everyone.

We need someone like you to join the team at our Leicestershire Life Links team. We support people living with mental health problems to develop a sense of independence, purpose and fulfilment and gain the skills they need to return to work or training. But, we need your help. Your challenge? To co-ordinate the volunteering programme within the service. This will include recruiting volunteers and providing them with inductions, support, supervision and mentoring. You’ll also work with Team Leaders to further develop our volunteer network, help us develop organisational policies, procedures, protocols, systems and guidance to underpin volunteer support and good practice, and much more besides.

To succeed, you’ll need a good understanding of the principles and practice on which mental health services are run. We'll also be looking for a proven ability to consult, liaise and work effectively with colleagues and a wide range of organisations. Flexibility over working hours is important too, as is self-motivation, professional integrity and excellent time management, prioritising and work planning skills. Great at solving problems and making decisions, if you have experience of recruiting and/or supervising volunteers or implementing new services, even better, although this is not essential.

The salary for this post is £19,206, with subsequent progression to a maximum of £20,216 per annum.

This is a permanent full time post requiring the post holder to work 37.5 hours per week.

Recovery Focus is committed to working towards equal opportunities and we select staff solely on merit irrespective of race, colour, national or ethnic origin, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, age, social class, religious belief, disability or history of mental health or addiction problems. If you need support to apply for the role or adaptions at interview please contact the recruitment team to discuss.

So, are you ready to take on this rewarding role that comes with some really great benefits?

This is a rolling recruitment process, shortlisted candidates will be interviewed as and when they apply.

We are one of the largest learning disability charities in the UK, supporting over 2,500 people through our friendly, supportive, creative and diverse teams.

Experience is not essential as we provide all the training you need to be a confident support worker. Whether you are an experienced professional or completely new to the world of care, we want you to be a compassionate and friendly individual, who shares our Values.

You will be covering leave, training and sickness with hours that fit in with life's other commitments, a relief support worker role is an ideal way of discovering that this could be the career for you. We provide 24/7 support to some people, so you will need to have flexibility to work shifts, including sleep in nights, weekends and Bank Holidays.

Salary: £8.91 per hour (plus 12.07% in lieu of holiday pay), flexible hours are available with work patterns to fit around your work/life commitments

Hours: Casual Flexible
Location: Kibworth, Leicestershire

What we Offer

There are a range of benefits and career development opportunities at Hft. We’ll give you a comprehensive induction, full training, and support along the way.

With Investors in People and Skills for Care accreditation we are committed to investing in you to ensure you have the specialist skills and expertise needed to support people to live the best life possible.

• Access to award-winning training and development
• Annual staff award scheme
• Flexible hours
• Free DBS Check

We ask all our teams to take advantage of the Covid-19 vaccination, which is offered to frontline support workers as a priority group. In some types of service this vaccine is required by law, but we strongly encourage everyone to be vaccinated (across all our services) to ensure both the safety of the people we support and our colleagues.

A full UK driving licence is desirable for this role.

Join us and help change lives.

Closing date: Thursday 16th December 2021

STRICTLY NO AGENCIES PLEASE.

You may have experience or an interest in the following: Support Worker, Charity, Charities, Third Sector, Learning Disabilities, Social Care, Voluntary Sector, Mental Health Worker, Healthcare Assistant, Care Staff, Community Development, Relief Care Worker, Vulnerable People, Social Worker, Not for Profit, NFP, Flexible Working, etc.

To manage all elements of volunteering with The Baldwin Trust. This involves assessing and meeting the needs of the Trust through the recruitment, placement, and retention of volunteers. To manage the volunteers (currently 58) and those with whom they come into contact whilst you monitor, evaluate, and accredit volunteers.

To provide guidance and assistance to the volunteer members of The Baldwin Trust in achieving a rewarding, enjoyable and progressive performance within their roles, whatever duties, and responsibilities they may accept and execute.

To organise collective and individual meetings to monitor, develop and enhance the involvement of all volunteers within the Trust and its activities.

To liaise with Trustees and the Management committee on volunteer matters and to provide regular reports to such meetings for consideration and actions.

Reporting into the Chairman.

RESPONSIBILITIES.

• Review, update and create volunteer policies and procedures including risk assessments.
• Keep up to date with legislation and policy relating to volunteering and this will include your own continuous improvement and further training if available.
• Provide reports and information to the Trustees and Management Committee on all matters pertaining to volunteers and their duties.
• Particularly, to work with the Training Officer and his/her team as to volunteer suitability and opportunities based on the needs of the Trust.
• Organise and manage rotas of volunteer support to promotional events, fairs, and festivals on behalf of the Trust.
• Create volunteer adverts and publish in appropriate communications.
• Organise “profile raising” events to attract new volunteers.

• Organise induction and training for volunteers.
• Monitor, support, motivate and accredit volunteers and their work.
• Celebrate volunteering by nominating volunteers for awards and help organise social events at which these can be celebrated.
• Offer advice and information to existing and potential volunteers through direct contact, email, and online communications.
• Complete 6 monthly Progress Reports for the grant funders of this position.

THE BENEFITS OFFERED

A remote working with attendance at our boats in the marinas from time to time and at Trustee & Management meetings.

A part time salary of £14.50 per hour, based on 15 hours a week, 46 weeks a year, on a self-employed basis.

This is a 21 month grant funded position.

Start date: As soon as possible.

Attendance at the evening Management meetings and Trustee meetings will be required. These take place on Thursday evenings, every 6 weeks and 4 times per year, respectively.

The position is subject to a formal review after 3 months by means of a Personal Appraisal Interview.

All bona fide expenses will be reimbursed upon completion of the Trusts Expense Claim form and submission of appropriate receipts.

Mileage allowance of 25p per mile is paid for travel costs.

The successful candidate must be computer literate, have good organisational skills and be used to working at a high level of communication with a diverse group of volunteers. Experience in charitable organisations will be a benefit.

A laptop, printer and mobile phone will be provided.

A DBS check and 2 references will be required if your application is successful.