The Regional Policy and Campaigns Manager helps people with sight loss to live the life they choose by leading the development of policy and campaigns in the English region to support Guide Dogs strategic aims, working in collaboration with the central policy, public affairs and campaigns team and the regional leadership team. You will develop and foster strategic partnerships to further the aims of Guide Dogs across the South East and South West (excluding London), including relations with local government, local societies, local authorities and other relevant organisations. You will ensure, that Guide Dogs is aware of all policy initiatives in the region in matters relating to the organisation and its stakeholders.
The role will prepare policy position papers and responses to consultations from councils, combined authorities and other local or regional government bodies. The role will lead Guide Dogs' campaigns at a regional level and increase the involvement of blind and partially sighted people in campaigning.
This role is 9am to 5pm, Monday to Friday, 35 hours per week, with 26 days paid holiday (excluding bank holidays) a year. As a charity, we’re always keen to support flexible working as best we can. We offer a generous pension scheme, life assurance and enhanced pay for parenting and sickness leave. In addition, we provide an Employee Assistance Programme, flexible benefits package and discounts and cashback scheme to care for our people.
More details about this role, the Organisation and the recruitment process can be found in the attached candidate pack and job description.
We reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date.
Candidate profile
To be able to fulfil this role, and provide help to those with sight loss, the skills and experience we are looking for in a potential candidate include;
Essential
- A degree level qualification with relevant professional or research based qualification and / or experience.
- Experience of working in a policy role with responsibility for liaison, internal and external networking, project leadership and reporting.
- Experience of networking with and influencing opinion formers including politicians, civil servants and professional groups.
- Experience of campaigning to secure change in policy and practice and working with groups of campaigners.
- Demonstrable experience of working in a professional management, supervisory or teaching / training role related to vulnerable people.
- Experience of working in the third sector.
- Experience of volunteer management.
- Able to demonstrate experience of managing a complex operations environment where exceptional, customer-focused delivery is achieved.
For the complete list of essential and desirable criteria necessary to be successful in this role please see the Person Specification within the Job Description below.
If you are successful you will need to provide evidence of your right to work in the UK. We cannot provide sponsorship for this role.
How to apply
Applications need to be made using the online application form, accessed using the ‘apply’ button above. As part of your application ensure you provide to evidence and examples of how your skills & experience meet the criteria as set out in the attached job description.
Guide Dogs follow Safer Recruitment practices to ensure we are safeguarding the vulnerable people we work with. As part of this, we require a full work history with any gaps accounted for & a minimum of 2 professional referee details fully covering the past 5 years. If there is not enough space in your application form to provide this information, please ensure you upload additional documentation containing the additional detail.
Diversity
Guide Dogs welcomes applications from all sections of the community and actively encourages diversity to maximise achievements, creativity and good practice. We positively welcome and seek to ensure we achieve diversity in our workforce and that all job applicants and employees receive equal and fair treatment, regardless of age, race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, disability or nationality. We encourage applications from disabled people as they are currently under-represented in the organisation and guarantee an invite to interview for all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the job.
Safeguarding
Guide Dogs is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children, young people and adults at risk of harm with whom we work. We expect all our employees and volunteers to fully share this commitment.
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Full Time Permanency Service Team Leader (37.5 hours pw)
- Are you experienced in managing fostering and/or adoption services?
- Are you committed to providing the best quality foster carers and adopters for troubled children?
- Do you want to work in a multi-disciplinary team of skilled professionals to ensure good therapeutic Post Adoption and Fostering support, and to motivate and support other social workers to do so too?
If the answer’s ‘yes’ – get in touch!
Why? Family Futures is:
- An adoption and adoption support agency awarded an outstanding rating by OFSTED in 2018 for our third consecutive inspection.
- Has a reputation for innovation and offering a high-quality service - an integrated multi-disciplinary assessment, treatment and family finding service for adopted and fostered children who often are more challenging to place or to maintain in placement.
- Now developing a therapeutic fostering service to bring our skills and wrap-around support to children in care
As the Permanency Service Team Leader you will be responsible for continuing to develop and support our Adoption Service, be a central part of developing our exciting new Therapeutic Fostering Service and manage the staff within these services to help them maximise and develop their skills and practice.
We Need an energetic experienced manager with a background in permanency services who will lead a small team of social workers in the Permanency Service and carry a small caseload of assessing adopters and foster carers, and post approval support. You will also (for an additional salary element) take a turn at staffing the out of hours support line.
Ideally applicants will have experience of both fostering and adoption. However, given our experience in adoption, it is more essential that the Permanency Team Leader brings experience and knowledge of fostering and is willing to build their skills in adoption.
We Offer:
- High quality support, supervision and training
- The opportunity to work creatively, as a key part of our multi-disciplinary team, in a child-centred way, informed by current research, using a well-evidenced model of understanding the need of children with traumatic histories.
- Small caseloads, meaning you can work in depth with families and support the staff team to do so
- Competitive salary and a supportive working environment, which recognises the stress of this type of work and nurtures staff, enabling staff to grow their skills and gain satisfaction from supporting carers/adopters to become therapeutic parents and children to heal and thrive.
Family Futures is an Equal Opportunities Employer. We expect all staff to share our commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and follow safer recruitment practices to protect children and adults at risk of harm, requiring the successful applicant to undertake an enhanced DBS disclosure.
This is a permanent position. Salary: £46,000 - £51 000 per annum
In response to Covid 19 we have had to adapt our services, therefore the role is currently largely home-based with some days at our office in Islington.
Closing date for applications is midnight Sunday 14th February 2021 with interviews scheduled to take place on Monday 22nd February 2021.
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About Coram
Coram is committed to improving the lives of the UK’s most vulnerable children and young people.
We support children and young people from birth to independence, creating a change that lasts a lifetime.
Coram is the UK’s oldest children’s charity founded by Thomas Coram in London helping vulnerable children and young people since 1739. Today, the Coram group helps more than one million children, young people, families and professionals every year by providing access to the skills and opportunities they need to thrive.
Coram Children’s Legal Centre (CCLC) is the UK’s specialist centre for children’s rights championing access to justice through information and advice, legal practice and representation, policy and strategic litigation. Our Legal Practice Unit provides advice and representation in child and family law, education law, community care law and asylum and immigration law.
Part of Coram’s growing Children’s Rights Centre, CCLC is co-located with Coram Voice, the specialist provider of advocacy services for young people in and leaving the care system, in the new Queen Elizabeth II Centre at the heart of our historic campus in Bloomsbury.
About the role
We have an exciting new opportunity for a Solicitor specialising in Child and Family Law to work within the CCLC team. In this role you will provide legal advice, assistance and representation to children, young people, family members and carers through casework including private law cases where the child is made party to the proceedings and a guardian is instructed, care proceedings, pre-proceeding processes, adoption, special guardianship arrangements and disputes about child arrangements. You will be passionate about delivering high quality advice and client care and be committed to children’s human rights and supporting CCLC’s aims.
Applicants for the role need to be a qualified solicitor with significant experience of child and family law casework and be a member of the Law Society’s Children Law Accreditation Scheme (Children’s Panel).
We are committed to the wellbeing of our staff. We will consider requests for alternative or flexible work patterns as well as part-time.
To apply for this role, please click on the 'apply now' button below to complete the application.
Closing date: 9am, Friday 12th February 2021
Interview date: To be confirmed
Coram Children’s Legal Centre is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of the community. We actively encourage applicants from Asian, African, Caribbean and other minority ethnic backgrounds to join our teams. Whilst we have a diverse team we recognise we are a predominantly white workforce and are genuinely committed to encouraging candidates from diverse communities in order to improve the services to the children and families we help.
We are committed to the safeguarding of children and where appropriate will require the successful applicant to undertake a check from the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Registered Charity No. 281222.
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SUPPORT WORKER, LHRSP FLOATING SUPPORT BOSTON, LINCOLNSHIRE, FRWK03 £16,915 - £18,430 FTE, Permanent, 37HPW
LHRSP Floating Support Service is a community based support service for people with complex needs. The services cover Boston, South Holland, East Lindsey, South Kesteven and Lincoln.
We are currently recruiting for a Support Worker position to cover the Boston area with remote working.
We work in partnership with the local Vulnerable Adult Panels and Team Around the Adult providing support to people to address key problems with money and/or housing, help them develop knowledge, skills and resilience to remain safe, and live independently in their own home.
In this role you will work alongside the Support Planner; assessing service user needs and plan individually tailored support for people to help them achieve their goals. You will be expected to work effectively within a small team, delivering an excellent service along with the Support Planner.
You will be expected to have a good working knowledge of the needs of people struggling with their mental health, as well as benefits, housing law, debt support and issues related to the person’s ability to live independently.
You must have a current driving licence and access to a car in order to cover multiple bases across various locations within the districts.
For more information please contact: Kerrianne Heath
What we offer: Life Assurance, Pension (up to 4% matched by FHA), Enhanced Maternity, Paternity and Adoption Benefits, Additional Annual Leave Purchase Scheme, Employee Assistance Programme, Learning programmes tailored to suit different roles and services, Health Cash Plan.
Framework supports all employees to achieve a better work/life balance. Should you wish us to consider flexible working or job share as part of your application please state this on your application in the supporting statement section.
97% of the workforce in a recent staff survey said they were proud to work for Framework.
Framework is an Equal Opportunities Employer. Registered charity No: 1060941.
As a Disability Confident employer we warmly encourage job applications from people with disabilities. Framework is committed to offering opportunities to people from diverse communities. If you have specific requirements or adjustments please let us know if there is anything we can do to support your application
CVs will not be accepted
NO AGENCIES PLEASE
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