We are looking for an Events Manager

Job Description and Personal Specification

Hours 35 per week

Salary £22,500 to £24,500 depending on experience

Fixed Term contract until April 2023

Reporting to: Chief Offer and working closely with our Digital Media Officer

Location: Based at our Hindley Office in Wigan with at least 50% of contracted hours there, but agile working across the Wigan Borough will be required on a regular basis

Job purpose

• To support the implementation of Wigan and Leigh Carers Centre programme of events and activities, as well as supporting third party events, ensuring that these promote and present Wigan and Leigh Carers Centre in a professional and compelling manner, maximising opportunities for donor cultivation & fundraising maximizing income generation.
• To deliver a selection of events to ensure that a) recruitment and income generation is maximised and b) key third party events promote and present Wigan and Leigh Carers Centre in a professional and compelling manner, maximising opportunities for donor cultivation and on-going fundraising.
• To work with the Digital Media Officer and Volunteer Coordinator to implement the stewardship matrix for event supporters, including regular communications and impact reporting.
• To work with other teams to ensure that all events are delivered with good practice events management and co-ordination.

Key responsibilities

Signature Events

• To support the delivery of the events strategy through delivery of high-quality events, designed to attract new and repeat service users.
• To manage the box office for all events on database system (Ticket Source) including setting up new events, logging and administering all registrants, guests and income related to events, utilising our MIS.
• To research guest information and share/signpost to other fundraising teams as appropriate e.g., corporate prospects etc.
• To assist in the research, development, and planning of potential new event opportunities, ensuring that the events programme evolves in response to new fundraising requirements, opportunities, sector trends and most importantly our service users
• To assist in the development and management of external suppliers, ensuring all suppliers work to agreed terms and conditions and to be responsible (with Finance Department) for all supplier/sub-contractor agreements and performance on managed events.

Third Party Events

• To work collaboratively with third party event organisers to ensure that WLCC maximises all fundraising and promotional opportunities whilst managing expectations of charity support and involvement in line with income levels.
• To generate interest, develop relationships and encourage existing and new stakeholders to run events in aid of WLCC to meet new income targets.
• To represent WLCC at key third party events and where appropriate speak on behalf of the charity, assist with the fundraising activities, and work with the volunteer co-ordinator to manage any volunteer support.

Event Supporter Stewardship

• To work with the Digital Media Officer and the wider Team to follow the Event Supporter stewardship plan for those supporters attending events, resulting in a communication plan detailing a schedule of stewardship activities.
• To work with the Communications and Charitable Giving teams to source content, so that we communicate the impact of support received, in a timely manner.
• To support follow up activity for prospects identified following signature and third-party events, signposting their cultivation journey through to the Head of Events and/or the Charitable Giving team as appropriate.
• To identify opportunities to engage or recruit new event supporters to existing or new events in the Willow calendar.

General

• To support the Digital Media Officer and the wider Team, overall financial management of events activities, budgeting, planning, controlling, and monitoring expenditure as appropriate and managing income against targets, KPI’s and provide regular revised projections as required.
• To maintain good practice in the use of database system (Raiser’s Edge), including the events module, ensuring that information is recorded accurately to allow for excellent supporter care, stewardship and accurate analysis of event performance.
• To work in close collaboration with fundraising account managers to generate auction items for both third party and Willow events. 
• To keep up to date with current competitor activity, potential new opportunities for events and improved ways of managing and developing events.
• To keep up to date and comply with fundraising, data protection and other relevant legislation and codes of practice and good standards.
• To undertake any other tasks reasonably required.
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Person Specification

Qualifications, Knowledge and Experience

Essential

• Degree level or equivalent experience
• Proven experience of supporting several events including negotiating with external contractors and delivering to budget and within tight timeframes.
• Can demonstrate effective implementation and management of work plans, projects, and resources to ensure proactive completion of tasks.
• Proven experience of developing and managing budgets.
• Ability to work as a part of a small, flexible, and hardworking team.
• Delivering high quality supporter and donor care through ongoing contact and communication.
• Experience of working on administration within a fundraising, events, or marketing environment.

Desirable

• Experience of working with senior stakeholders to meet income targets.
• Experience of working with celebrities.
• Experience of working with sponsors.
• Experience of working in the charity / fundraising sector.
• Knowledge of online booking systems such as Eventbrite / Ticketmaster

Skills and Abilities

Essential

• Confident and articulate, able to build successful, mutually beneficial relationship with internal and external audiences.
• Strong ability to prioritise tasks under pressure and solve problems quickly and effectively.
• Ability to work on several different projects simultaneously.
• Organised, pro-active self-starter, capable of taking initiative.
• Excellent written and verbal communicator, with exemplary grammar and spelling, who places high value on attention to detail.
• Good influencing and negotiation skills.
• Respect for and ability to always maintain confidentiality.  Nb bc
• Self-reliant and confident IT user including internet, email, design, databases, spreadsheets, and MS Office.

Desirable

• Creative thinker, able to innovate to meet audience needs.
• Experience or knowledge of Raisers Edge database.
• Sports sector knowledge.

Other

Essential

• Positive, energetic, and able to enthuse
• Flexible and proactive problem solver
• Takes personal responsibility for and remains focused on delivering results and achieving objectives, overcoming problems and frustrations.
• Genuine commitment to the work and services of WLCC

Desirable

Empathy with the cause and knowledge of issues faced by young unpaid carers and adult unpaid carers supporting people living with:

• Mental Health
• Substance Misuse
• Long Term Medical Condition i.e., MS, Epilepsy, Dementia
• End of Life Care

Special Conditions

Essential

• Able to work irregular (unsociable) hours and weekends where necessary.

Essential

• Own car and current driving licence

General

We offer the following competitive benefits package:

• 25 days annual leave rising to 30
• Pension Fund
• Flexible Working policy
• 5 days paid Carers Leave

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Our Vision: To support unpaid carers aged 5 upwards, who support a family member, friend or neighbour living with a disability, substance misuse, mental health, or long-term condition to access holistic wellbeing support delivered by WLCC and our funders.

Our Mission: to provide support for unpaid carers aged 5 upwards

To be a recognised centre of excellent in the provision of information, training and support, provided for carers to improve the carer’s quality of life and give all carers a voice”.

Our Values: 

1. Recognise that all carers have different needs and listen and provide what carers really want
2. Treat everyone with respect, equally without prejudice and with integrity to the highest standards
3. Be proactive, seek out carers, recognizing that everyone has something to offer
4. Provide a welcoming friendly environment
5. Encourage carer participation

ABOUT WLCC

Wigan and Leigh Carers Centre is an independent registered Charity (1138908) that supports unpaid carers looking after someone who lives in Wigan Borough.

Wigan and Leigh Carers Centre was established in 2010 and is a Network Partner of Carers Trust.

At the Centre we aim to support both young and adult carers to recognise their own needs, have their voices heard, help with their physical and mental wellbeing and ensure they are fully understood, valued and supported in their caring role.

WLCC is the only charity in Wigan commissioned to carry out Carers Assessment under the Care Act 2014

Application Instructions:

CV

Please include a covering letter or supporting statement

Our centre manager will be at the heart of things.  You'll be based from Mencap Cottage, a big detached house close to the sea, that we're reimagining as a small community centre.  This role involves a bit of everything so if you love variety and interesting challenges, read on!

We are passionate about our building being a physical space where everyone feels valued and included.  You'll be managing the day-to-day use of our facilities, supporting various members of our extended team (members, staff & volunteers) to assist you.  You'll also be looking after our finance, admin and HR, so you'll need to be good with numbers as well as people.

As it's a broad role we're interested in speaking to candidates from a wide range of backgrounds.   Please have a look at the broader role description for more information.  We'd also welcome anyone who wants to come and meet us so please get in touch.

ABOUT LISTENING EAR

• Listening Ear is a leading third sector, mental health organisation with its headquarters in Knowsley, Merseyside
• Our organisation specialises in delivering therapy and support services to children, young people and adults presenting with bereavement and traumatic loss, occupational health counselling and suicide postvention support services.
• Listening Ear holds full BACP Service Accreditation for its Adult and Children & Young People's services (the first organisation to achieve BACP accreditation in Merseyside in 2004)
• We are continuing to grow and now offer services in Merseyside, Cheshire, South Yorkshire, Lancashire and Kent & Medway.
   

We are seeking a dedicated and enthusiastic individual to join Listening Ear as Reception Administrator to support with the recent growth of our services. The role covers all reception duties, including processing referrals and handling enquiries to carrying out general administrative tasks such as data recording/entry, to support the preparation of data used in statistical reports to our Commissioners. The Reception Administrator is the first point of contact for our clients and external agencies and therefore needs to be warm and welcoming, a good communicator and able to respond professionally to a varied range of calls/emails. Our Administration team manage appointment bookings and the allocation of clients across the Organisation for a growing team of paid therapists, suicide bereavement support workers and students on counselling placements with Listening Ear. The successful candidate will be highly organised and professional, with excellent communication skills and proven experience of managing their own time and workload in a busy, high-pressure environment. They will also need to have a good working knowledge of Microsoft Office and Outlook as well as strong IT skills and ability to learn using new systems.

The role is subject to receiving satisfactory references and a probationary period.

Full-time contract is for 35 hours' per week (7 hours per day). The successful applicant will be required to work flexibly to provide cover in our offices in Whiston & Halewood as well as working remotely from home. The majority of admin work will be home-based with several shifts per month based in our office(s). We will require a candidate who is flexible to meet with the needs of the charity. 

Hours are 9am-5pm (Monday-Friday) with the potential for evening cover until 8pm when our service is open to clients. These evening shifts are covered on a rota basis by the admin team and requests can be made if certain evenings are preferred.

The Application Form is available below and this should be returned to us by email.

Closing date: Saturday 9th October at 11:30pm - We reserve the right to close the application window early if there is a lot of interest in the role advertised. We therefore encourage you to submit your application as early as possible.

Start date: ASAP following receipt of DBS and relevant references - If you have a transferable DBS please inform us of this in your application.

Unfortunately, we are unable to contact unsuccessful applicants and are unable to give feedback on individual applications.

Are you a motivated, calm and efficient person?

If so, we are looking for an Administrator to join our successful and long-established team in Warrington.

As an Administrator you will:

• Be friendly with excellent communication and organisational skills
• Be competent and familiar with key IT packages and information systems, and work well within an office environment
• Have an ability to demonstrate a high standard of professionalism, a flexible approach to helping others and an interest in providing excellent customer care
• Travel to other locations within the North West to assist with meetings and working alongside the Area Manager and Area Admin Manager
• A driver is required with their own transport. Expenses will be paid

Full training and an induction are available with excellent on-site support and team work. A driver is required with their own transport. Expenses will be paid.

Benefits of working with Creative Support:

• Free 24/7 counselling and employee support programme
• Competitive pay and a pension with company contribution and 28 days annual leave
• Company paid enhanced DBS for all staff
• A one-off bonus of £100 (subject to taxation) upon passing probation

Creative Support is a passionate, inclusive, and anti-racist organisation. We are a Stonewall Diversity Champion, Disability Confident Employer who have recently received Investors in People Silver award. We actively encourage applications from candidates from all backgrounds and cultures.

We expect all applicants to Creative Support to have had at least their first Covid 19 vaccination prior to starting employment with us and to be committed to having the second vaccination within a 3 month period.

About us 
Crisis is the national charity for homeless people. We know that homelessness is not inevitable. We know that together we can end it. 

Crisis is working with people and organisations across Merseyside to end homelessness. This roles offers the opportunity to support our busy team to do this.

About the role 
As Receptionist and Service Administrator you will be the first point of contact for Crisis Skylight Merseyside. You will provide a welcoming environment for members and support the Skylight Coordinator with a range of administrative duties. 
This is a fixed term role for 18 months. 
 

About you 
To be successful in this role you will have / be: 

- Calm when working with individuals with a range of needs 
- Experience of confidently signposting people to the appropriate pathway or service 
- Adaptable to changing priorities and members’ needs 
- Administrative experience supporting a busy team 

We want Crisis to be an inclusive employer which then reflects our members and the communities we work in. We want to offer opportunities to everyone regardless of their gender, ethnicity, disability, religion, sexual orientation or age. We particularly welcome applications from people with lived experience of homelessness. 

Working at Crisis 
As a member of the team you will have access to a wide range of employee benefits including: 

- Interest free loans to purchase a train season ticket or a bike or for a deposit to secure a tenancy
- Mandatory pension scheme, with an employer contribution of 8.5%
- 25 days’ annual leave which increases with service to 28 days

Alongside our excellent staff benefits, we will support your ongoing development to build your skills, experience and career. 

When you join us you will have the opportunity to join our staff diversity networks, which aim to champion issues across the organisation, enable staff to be their authentic and best selves and contribute to making Crisis a truly diverse organisation.

We have 5 staff diversity networks which include Black, Asian and Ethnic people, LGBTQ+ people, those with Lived Experience of Homelessness, Women at Crisis and Disability Awareness.

How to apply 
If this sound likes the opportunity for you, please click on the 'Apply for Job' button below. 
Sunday 10th October 2021 at 23:59 
Interviews will be held on the 25th October 2021 

Accessibility 
We welcome applications from people who identify as neuro diverse and want our recruitment process to be as accessible as possible. If you need us to make an adjustment or provide additional support as you apply for a role, please email our Recruitment team, contact details can be found on our website.

Registered Charity Numbers: E&W1082947, SC040094

JAG Programme Administrator

Location: Liverpool

Full Time, 1 x Permanent contract, 1 x FTC (Maternity Cover)

Salary: Grade 3: £20, 207 - £22,223 per annum 

Please note appointments for this role will be made at the base of the salary range.

The well-established and highly successful Accreditation Unit at the Royal College of Physicians is looking for an enthusiastic and proactive programme administrator to join their team, working on the endoscopy accreditation programme (known as JAG). 

The successful candidate will:

• Be experienced in working in office administration
• Be exceptionally organised
• Enjoy communicating with a range of individuals, developing good working relationships
• Have a passion for improving the healthcare workforce and its services.

About the role

As programme administrator, you will make an impact every day by:

• Providing administration assistance for projects, training days, and governance meetings, taking pride in attention to detail and providing a first-class customer-service mindset
• Assisting the assessment process ensuring that accreditation assessments are delivered successfully and achieve our aim of improving the quality of endoscopy services
• Taking responsibility for a range of communications activities, including providing a helpdesk function, preparing newsletters and blog posts etc.

You will need outstanding organisational skills and the ability to liaise and communicate confidently with a range of people. Using initiative and being able to work flexibly as a member of a busy team are also essential qualities. An interest in digital communication and social media will be preferable.

About us

Accreditation is a method of improving the quality of healthcare by assessing clinical services in relation to agreed standards. The Accreditation Unit team pride themselves on their dedication to delivering high quality work and making a difference. We have a culture of involvement; everyone’s views matter and we want you to contribute your ideas and help shape and improve what we do.

Benefits

• 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays
• Pension scheme
• Season ticket loan (access to this loan is after probation)
• Discounted gym membership
• Learning and development opportunities
• Flexible working

Once the team are back working in the office, you will also benefit from working in friendly offices in an attractive location overlooking Regent's Park and much more. Find out more about our benefits here.

Further information

This is a fantastic opportunity for an ambitious individual with a commitment to our core values – collaboration, learning and taking care. For more information about the role please view the job description and check out our programme website.

For an informal discussion about this role, please contact Cynthia Yim.

To apply, please click on the apply button and submit your CV and a supporting statement (no more than 2 pages) explaining, with clear examples, how your skills and experience match the job description and person specification. Applicants who do not submit a relevant supporting statement as requested will not be shortlisted. Please specify whether you are applying for the permanent or FTC role.

Closing date:  Monday 4 October 2021

Interview date:  Monday 11 October 2021

The RCP positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, transgender status, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity.

About us 
Crisis is the national charity for homeless people. We know that homelessness is not inevitable. We know that together we can end it. 

Crisis is working with people and organisations across Merseyside to end homelessness. This roles offers the opportunity to support our busy team to do this.

About the role 
As Initial Contact & Engagement Advisor, you willbe the first point of contact for people coming to the service including members, visitors, volunteers and staff. You will carry out an initial assessment of needs and ensure people are referred to the internal team or external service they need.
This is a fixed term role for 12 months. 

About you 
To be successful in this role you will have/be:

- Calm when working with individuals with a range of needs 
- Confident in signposting people to the appropriate pathway or service and providing initial advice 
- Adaptable to changing priorities and members’ needs 
- Administrative experience supporting a busy team in a customer-focused manner 

We want Crisis to be an inclusive employer which then reflects our members and the communities we work in. We want to offer opportunities to everyone regardless of their gender, ethnicity, disability, religion, sexual orientation or age. We particularly welcome applications from people with lived experience of homelessness. 

Working at Crisis 
As a member of the team you will have access to a wide range of employee benefits including: 

- Interest free loans to purchase a train season ticket or a bike or for a deposit to secure a tenancy
- Mandatory pension scheme, with an employer contribution of 8.5%
- 25 days’ annual leave which increases with service to 28 days

Alongside our excellent staff benefits, we will support your ongoing development to build your skills, experience and career. 

When you join us you will have the opportunity to join our staff diversity networks, which aim to champion issues across the organisation, enable staff to be their authentic and best selves and contribute to making Crisis a truly diverse organisation.

We have 5 staff diversity networks which include Black, Asian and Ethnic people, LGBTQ+ people, those with Lived Experience of Homelessness, Women at Crisis and Disability Awareness.

How to apply 
If this sound likes the opportunity for you, please click on the 'Apply for Job' button below. 
Closing date: Sunday 10th October 2021 at 23:59 
Interviews will be held on the 27th October 2021 

Accessibility 
We welcome applications from people who identify as neuro diverse and want our recruitment process to be as accessible as possible. If you need us to make an adjustment or provide additional support as you apply for a role, please email our Recruitment team, contact details can be found on our website. 

We have are looking for an Accommodation Coordinator to oversee the work of our Male and Female Safe-houses in Liverpool, a total of 4 properties. Our Accommodation teams work to provide a safe and secure place for Survivors of Modern Day Slavery who have no where else to go. Accommodation Coordinators are organised and caring. They assist with the management of the service to our accommodation clients by supporting current caseworkers with their cases, offering guidance and instruction and helping train and induct new caseworkers. In addition to this they will complete administrative duties in line with The Salvation Army Modern Slavery Contract. 

Job Title: Accommodation Coordinator (Male and Female Accommodation)                                                          Reports to: NW Residential Service Manager Contracted Hours: 37.5 hours
Contract Duration: Fixed until 29th June 2025                                                                                                          Salary: £23,500 plus on an annual on call supplement of £1500
Location: Liverpool, Merseyside
Closing Date: 30th September
Interview Date: W/c 4th October
Probationary Period: 3 months
Direct Reports: 5-6 Accommodation Caseworkers

• Management of caseworkers in the team. Including but not limited to: interviews, supervisions, appraisals and managing leave requests.

• Be the first point of contact for your team.

• Ensuring adherence to all internal procedures regarding City Hearts, the Safe House and any legislation including external KPI's.

• Supporting Caseworkers to ensure all clients are given excellent support and advocacy by the team, with effective journey plans to independence

• Effective Preventative and Reactive Safeguarding

• Complete weekly management reports and trackers

• Appropriate reporting to Line Manager in weekly meetings

• To organise day to day running of shifts such as appointments, staffing levels and client’s needs

• To help resolve any on-going issues in the accommodation

• Oversight of Client Management System (CMS) tracking support hours and case management

• Administration of caseworkers/support workers and volunteer’s rota at the accommodation

• Administrating petty cash use at the accommodation

• Arrange team meetings for the house staff and volunteers as well as attend staff and management meetings as needed.

• Liaising with external companies who are completing work in the property e.g. cleaning companies

• Maintaining, and developing as needed, local service links and contacts

• Oversight of health and safety including regular checks at the property

• Oversight of preparation of bedrooms, folders and paperwork for new clients

• Keeping stock of welcome packs and manage donations at the accommodation

• Oversee the implementation of medication policy and procedures across the safe houses

• To ensure the staff/client and communal and private (indoor and outdoor) areas are kept clean and tidy and to administrate any necessary cleaning rotas

• To organise weekly activities for clients and be a link for those accessing activities in the local area

• To oversee and help source any health and wellbeing needs in the accommodation

• To encourage feedback and respond to action points raised by clients about the accommodation

• To oversee activities being implemented for clients e.g. holidays, half-term etc

• To carry out on call as designated on the rota

• Promoting CH in adherence to the terms of the contract – this may include attending events on behalf of CH as a whole.

TLG is looking for a qualified teacher with a passion to turn around the lives of disaffected young people aged 11-16. Leading our Wirral Centre (alternative provision), the Centre Manager will be responsible for delivering exceptional educational programmes with imaginative curricula for disaffected young people, with proven skills and strategies to re-engage those on the verge of exclusion.

Working in partnership with Hope Church and a number of other key stakeholders, the successful applicant will need to develop and maintain excellent links in the Wirral with schools, parents, referrers and other agencies.

The successful candidate will have excellent team and communication skills and a successful track record in leadership and management, as well as a strong and vibrant Christian faith. TLG is committed to safeguarding our children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share in this commitment. The successful applicant will be required to undertake an enhanced disclosure via the DBS.

We would welcome applications from candidates from diverse backgrounds to enable us to better reflect the needs of the communities we serve.

Telephone interviews will take place on Thursday 14th October and final interviews will take place on Thursday 21st October (taking place at TLG Bolton).

Events Fundraising Assistant

- 37.5 hours per week

Type - Permanent contract

Based – The role is based at CCC-Wirral however will require attendance in CCC-Liverpool at least once per week

The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s leading providers of non-surgical cancer treatment, caring for a population of 2.4 million people across Cheshire & Merseyside, North Wales, the Isle of Man and parts of Lancashire.

Our flagship specialist cancer hospital in Liverpool opened in June 2020, supported by our hospital on the Clatterbridge Health Park in Wirral providing outpatient cancer treatment and supportive care, and our radiotherapy treatment centre on the Aintree Hospital site.

Together, working across three sites and operating specialist chemotherapy clinics in four of Merseyside’s district hospitals, we are able to deliver a comprehensive range of inpatient care, advanced radiotherapy, chemotherapy and other systemic anti-cancer therapies including gene therapies and immunotherapies. We also deliver a pioneering Treatment at Home and Work service; are the only facility in the UK providing low-energy proton beam therapy to treat rare eye cancers.

Working with leading experts from The University of Liverpool and the Cancer Research UK Liverpool Cancer Trials Unit we strive to stay at the forefront of novel treatments and techniques to deliver more effective and personalised treatments than ever before.

The Clatterbridge Cancer Charity is growing and we have a fantastic opportunity to join our Fundraising Team!

THE CHARITY

Following the opening of Liverpool's first cancer hospital in June 2020, we are in the most exciting phase of our history. With investment in our existing centres and the future of cancer care across Merseyside and Cheshire, we are the only charity dedicated to the incredible work of The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre.

Our charity funds the latest treatments, vital research, technology and the best possible environment for over 30,000 patients each year at The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre. As one of the largest cancer hospitals in the UK, we operate from 19 sites, including our Centres in Liverpool, Wirral & Aintree, and our network of clinics across the region.

In line with our future plans we have an incredible opportunity for an enthusiastic Events Fundraising Assistant to join our fundraising team. This role will be instrumental in raising funds to help transform cancer care for people across Merseyside and Cheshire, and is key to the charity's future growth.

THE ROLE

Assisting the Events Fundraising Manager, this role is key to the success of the charity’s fundraising events – from countryside bike rides and coastal walks to adrenaline fuelled skydives and everything in between! You will assist in marketing the events, the recruitment of participants, and giving our supporters the tools they need to hit their fundraising goals to support the work we do.

This exciting role also includes getting involved in the logistics of our events – helping to make sure our events are safe, smooth running and most of all fun for our supporters! You could be developing a social media campaign one day, and handing out medals in a muddy field the next. It’s an exciting role and no two days are the same.

General overview:

• Provide proactive support in the planning, preparation and manual set up of fundraising events

• Preparing and sending out fundraising packs to participants ahead of events to aid fundraising and participation

• Support marketing activity to recruit participants for our events

• Identify case stories to inspire others to take part

• Attend third party events as and when required (some weekends)

• Recruitment and coordination of event volunteers

• Maintain event systems, including database management and filing

• Support on specific third party events as designated by the Events Fundraising Manager

• Communicate with fundraisers to encourage income generation and further participation

• Source gifts in kind and prizes from local companies

• Prepare information packs and marketing materials

• Attend events with and on behalf of the Events Fundraising Manager

• Encourage participation in organised fundraising activities and events

The ideal candidate will have a passion for events, marketing, the outdoors, and fundraising. You should be someone with a very hands-on approach, and are happy to do everything for the good of the event and the charity. You will thrive on making our events a success, raising money for people with cancer and supporting our participants on their journey.

If you are looking to develop a career in fundraising and/or events, this role is a fantastic opportunity to learn and gain experience in a fast-paced charity events environment.

The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

We take an active responsibility for ensuring systems, policies and processes are in place to safeguard children, young people and adults. We support the national and local safeguarding agenda, including local arrangements for the protection of children young person and adults at risk.

Are you a driven HR professional looking to progress your career and enhance your existing skills in a passionate and fast paced environment?

Victim Support's People Services are looking for a HR Assistant to join our small but extremely busy team based in our Preston office. The team is hard working and committed to delivering a first class service to the charity and its 1,000+ employees across the full range of Human Resource activities involved in the employee lifecycle.

Victim Support (VS) is an independent charity providing a range of specialist services to people who have been affected by crime across England and Wales. We work towards a world where there are fewer victims but who have stronger rights, better support and a real influence in the Criminal Justice System. Everyone at VS is driven by our Vision Ambitions and Values to play their part in making a difference for those who experience crime and traumatic events. Working for VS gives you the opportunity to play a key role in a national charity providing high quality services to victims and witnesses and being a vital force for change.

In this busy role you will support all processes associated with the employee lifecycle from recruitment and on-boarding, processing payroll, monitoring sickness absence and ensuring appropriate application of HR policies and procedures. You will also fulfil all general HR administration activities, including managing the HR inboxes, adhering to legal requirements including DBS and Right to Work checks and maintaining our HR and Applicant Tracking Systems. You will be the first point of contact to provide HR advice and guidance to line managers across your region and will be accountable for supporting the HR Business Partners in effectively managing relations and absence. Ensuring we deliver a fast and effective solution to managers and employees.

Ideally, we would love you to have some experience of preparing and analysing HR data to support the team to be able to report on trends in absence, processes and turnover for example.

Victim Support is a professional and friendly organisation and being a small HR team we work very well together. You need to be conscientious, very well organised, flexible, friendly and discreet with a genuine interest in Victim Support's values. You will be expected to deliver excellence in HR administration, maintaining your own workload, ensuring you provide and accurate and timely service to the HR Team, line managers and employees. Ultimately you will be a people person who can manage internal relations well.

Closing date: midnight 27th September 2021

Interviews will take place Tuesday 5th October 2021

In return for all of this, we have a comprehensive benefits package including

• Pension and life assurance
• 25 days annual leave (pro-rata) plus bank holidays
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Savings discount scheme for discounts off Major high street retailers, entertainment, holidays and days out
• Financial wellbeing hub
• Enhanced maternity pay
• Season ticket loans
• Eye care vouchers

Applications should be explicit enough to provide good evidence against the shortlisting criteria, which are outlined in the person specification under essential and tested area. In order to apply, please create a profile in our website (jobs section), complete and submit an online application form. If the vacancy has not specified the essential criteria for shortlisting, please use this section to express how your experience and skills are relevant for the role.

If you have the drive to make a difference within an organisation which makes a difference we look forward to hearing from you.

Victim Support are committed to recruiting with care and to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Background checks and Disclosed Barring Service checks may be required.

Victim Support is committed to supporting and promoting equality and diversity and to creating an inclusive working environment. We believe having a diverse workforce at all levels allows us to represent the communities we serve and connect better with people affected by crime. We believe this can be achieved through attracting, developing and retaining a diverse range of staff from many different backgrounds. We therefore welcome applicants from all communities and monitor the diversity of applicants to analyse if we are representative of the communities we serve in terms of sex, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, trans-identity, relationship status, religion or belief, caring responsibilities, age and socio-economic status. As part of our commitment to the Race at Work Charter we would particularly welcome applicants from BAME communities.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early, if we receive enough suitable applications to take forward to interview prior to the published closing date.

Programme Coordinator, FFFAP

Location – Liverpool  

Working hours – Full time, 35 hours a week (1 x 12 month contract, 1 x 16 month contract)

Salary - Grade 4: £25,332- £28,410 per annum

Please note salary offered will be circa £25,332. For internal appointments the offered salary will reflect the pay and reward policy. 

The Falls and Fragility Fracture Audit Programme (FFFAP) is a high profile national clinical audit which aims to raise standards in fragility fracture care. We are looking for an enthusiastic individual to join our team as programme coordinator. The successful applicant will be responsible for ensuring that the audit programme’s meetings and events, communications activities, helpdesk, reporting and quality improvement work are coordinated effectively; and that support of the wider team and general administrative work is delivered to a high standard.

Responsibilities

• Managing helpdesk enquiries, responding to queries within stipulated timeframes or escalating to project manager or clinical leads as required
• Ensuring the smooth running of meetings and events through detailed planning, organisation and note taking
• Coordinating the Programme’s communication and Quality Improvement activities
• Upholding strong working relationships with clinical teams and wider stakeholders including managing correspondence with outlying sites
• Working with analysts to support data checking and cleaning
• Supporting the production of reports, including proof reading and liaison between the project teams and RCP design team and communications team
• Independently managing sub-projects as directed by the project manager.

Experience

• Educated to degree level
• Experience of working in or with the NHS, or a similar complex organisation, in an administrative/co-ordination role.
• Experience of co-ordinating activities for complex/substantial work programmes, with numerous ‘external’ customers, to challenging deadlines.
• Excellent communications skills, both written and verbal, and an ability to establish relationships and communicate effectively with people from a wide variety of backgrounds.
• Excellent time management and task prioritisation skills.
• Advanced knowledge and application of Microsoft Word, Access, Excel, Outlook and Power Point.
• Experience of meetings and workshop management including: planning, organisation, hosting and minute/note taking.
• Experience of using different media, including social media platforms, to communicate creatively with a wide range of audiences and to build and maintain stakeholder relationships.

Benefits

• 35-hour week
• Pension scheme (GPPP scheme and death in service benefit)
• Interest-free season ticket loan (following completion of probation)
• Enhanced maternity pay (after 2 years of service)
• Individual learning and development needs review
• Occupational health support
• Cycle to work scheme

About the RCP

The Royal College of Physicians (RCP) is a patient-centred and clinically led membership organisation for physicians, with over 40,000 members worldwide. The RCP works to ensure that physicians are trained to provide high-quality care and promotes evidence-based policies to government to encourage healthy lifestyles and reduce illness. By working in partnership with other health organisations, we present a powerful and unified voice to improve health and healthcare.

This role will be based in Liverpool at the newly opened Spine. The Spine will be one of the healthiest buildings in the UK as it will achieve the platinum grade of a very demanding international standard – the WELL Standard. The standard consists of seven concepts – air, water, nourishment, light, fitness, comfort and mind. These concepts incorporate a total of 102 features of a building that can be designed to optimise the health of the occupants of the building and create an environment to promote a healthy and happy workforce.

A small handful of buildings have been built to this standard in England, and only a few meet the highest criterium – the platinum WELL Standard.

The Spine is the highest point in Liverpool and has unrivalled views over the city, to Wales and Snowdonia in one direction and the Pennines in the other direction.

To apply, please submit your CV and a supporting statement (no more than 2 pages) explaining, with clear examples, how your skills and experience match the job description and person specification. Applicants who do not submit a relevant supporting statement as requested will not be shortlisted. Please specify whether you are applying for the 12 or 16 month role.

Closing date: Sunday 3 October 2021

Interview date: TBC

The RCP positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, transgender status, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity.

Service Charge Manager

Do you want to make a real difference to the lives of people? Do you want to work for an organisation that has been providing affordable housing across the UK for over 90 years, as well as caring for the elderly and supporting those who face homelessness?

We’re looking for a Service Charge Policy and Systems Manager to play a crucial role in our Finance Department.

Position: Service Charge Policy and Systems Manager

Location: Home-based/remote

Hours: 35 hours per week

Salary: £45,682 per annum (10% increase after 12 months' service, depending on performance)

Contract: Permanent

Closing Date: 4th October

The difference you’ll make

The Service Charge Policy and Systems Manager will develop the Group strategy and associated policies for service charges, translating legislation and government guidelines into specific rules to ensure the accurate formulation of service charges for all customers, the maintenance of associated models, calculators and systems.

You will provide expertise to wider Finance and Operational colleagues with complex, high profile and high profile service charge matters, including the business rules and formulae associated with service charges and manage the small Service Charge Policy team ensuring all customer, financial and administrative activity is carried out to ensure timely delivery.

So, who are you?

We are looking for an experienced leader with up to date knowledge of legislation, regulations and standards relating to service charge policy within the housing sector as well as a detailed understanding of how wider government and regulatory policy impacts on service charge setting in housing associations. You’ll have demonstrable experience of successfully developing and implementing Service Charge policies and processes within a large organisation.

Your strengths are communication, influencing skills, a strong customer focus, managing conflicting priorities, attention to detail and a focus on continuous improvement. You are results driven, work well under pressure to deliver to strict deadlines and have strong knowledge of accounting procedures.

Although not essential, a recognised accountancy qualification, previous experience within a similar sector, evidence of continued professional development, knowledge of IT systems relating to service charges and financial modelling experience would be desirable.

Enjoy the rewards

This is a job that offers true satisfaction with the chance to help those who can’t afford a house of their own.

The organisation is focused on being an employer of choice where people thrive and your voice is truly heard. Working with here, you’ll enjoy competitive pay, a wide range of benefits, flexible working, employee offers, and the chance to learn valuable new skills. People are empowered to do great work by investing in learning, personal development and technology.

If you’re the kind of person that wants to do a really great job and make a difference to customers, we think you’ll love it here. Sound like a challenge you’d like to take on? Then get in touch and let’s talk about how you can help us transform lives and revitalise neighbourhoods.

We encourage applicants from all sections of the community so that we can truly reflect the neighbourhoods in which we work.

You may have experience in areas such as Service Charge Analyst, Service Charge Financial Analyst, Senior Service Charge Analyst, Service Charge Manager, Service Charge Accountant, Service Charge Officer, Service Charge and Rents Analyst, Commercial Service Charge Manager, Rents & Service Charge Assistant Manager, Senior Finance Officer Rent & Service Charges, Finance Manager Service Charge, Senior Service Charge Officer, Service Charge Accountant,

JOB DESCRIPTION

Job Title: Independent Living Mentor and Social Worker Student Mentor

Salary: £ 28,544 - £30,544 plus benefits

Status: Substantive

Hours: 37.5 hours per week, including evenings and weekends.

Holidays: 22 Days plus Bank Holidays

Based at: Will be expected to work within the community throughout the Wigan and Leigh Borough

Responsible to: Service Manager

Accountable to: Queen’s Hall Action on Poverty Trustees

Closing Date : 12 Noon Wednesday 20th October 2021

To Apply : Please review the Job Description below , enclose your CV along with a covering letter to explain why you feel you are perfect for this role. 

Please do not register at the above link until you are ready to add your documents, once registered, you cannot amend your application or add any documents.

Please apply early as we reserve the right to bring forward or extend the deadline for applications, so please get your applications in as soon as possible

JOB PURPOSE

The Brick is a charity with big aspirations and its local community at the heart of everything it does. As a result, The Brick follows a strategy and approach focusing on personal development by following The 3 R’s. The 3 R’s are: Relief, meeting felt needs, Restoration, equipping people for self-sustaining, independent living, and Reformation, speaking out and acting against social injustice.

The key role will be to support The Brick and individuals through providing Restoration. You will collaborate with an individual to create and facilitate bespoke support to some of the most vulnerable individuals and families across the borough, to ensure that they are provided with accurate advice and information needed to secure or maintain permanent accommodation. To ensure that people have access to relevant services, training and advocacy in order to remove barriers to independent living.

To carry out the role of the Independent Living Mentor team providing support to residents in emergency access homeless accommodation. Additional responsibility for mentoring social work students during their work placements with The Brick.

ILM - Ensuring that a consistent high level of service is provided. To ensure that bespoke support is provided to vulnerable individuals and families across the borough and that accurate advice and information is provided to allow individuals to secure and maintain permanent accommodation. To ensure that people have access to relevant services, training and advocacy in order to remove barriers to independent living. To ensure that individuals are appropriately safeguarded and that all recording is completed to a high standard. You will also be responsible for carrying a caseload

Social Work Student Mentor – Qualified Social work with practitioner experience is essential for this role. You will have responsibility for co-ordinating and supporting social work students through their work placement. As their onsite supervisor you will have direct line management including undertaking supervisions, providing feedback and ensuring social work students are supported through their placement. You will be responsible for sourcing appropriate learning opportunities and ensuring their work is completed to a high standard. An in depth knowledge of the Social Work Professional Capabilities Framework is required.