This is an exciting role for someone to coordinate a new service to achieve the below aims.

Title: Crisis Café Team Leader (two posts)
Working base: Luton and Bedford
Area covered: Luton and Bedford
Reports to: Crisis Café Manager
Contract type: Permanent
Salary: £24,000 pa (£22,702.70 actual)
Contracted hours: We would like this role to offer flexible employment for individuals so will offer roles up to 35.0 hrs per week
Working days and hours: Seven days a week (2 – 5 days per week) 5:00pm – 11:00pm

Mind BLMK is a local charity that has been supporting and providing services for adults affected by mental health issues for over 40 years.

We are excited to confirm funding has recently been secured to provide Crisis Cafes, to be delivered across the boroughs of Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes.

Crisis Cafés provide out-of-hours 7 days a week support to those suffering from mental health issues, aiming to prevent escalation, reduce isolation, increase independence and self-management and improve mental health and wellbeing.

About the role: 
We are looking for an individual who is a highly motivated manager, with knowledge and experience of supporting vulnerable adults and using the recovery approach in service provision.

The successful applicants will have excellent coordination skills to support our flexible approach to delivering crisis interventions moving forwards. You will also be a motivating and experienced manager and be skilled at developing and supporting your team of staff and volunteers to deliver effective person-centred support for our clients. This high profile and challenging role will require a can-do attitude and enthusiastic approach to problem solving.

Once the services are mobilised you will be required to work in a flexible way in order to coordinate a service which operates during evening hours in the week and at weekends and also to engage with the wider BLMK team and external partners.

Closing date: 10:00am on Thursday 20th February 2020

TO APPLY AND FOR MORE INFORMATION:

If you would like to find out more about this position and to apply, please click the Apply button to be directed to our website where you can complete your application.

Mind BLMK is an equal opportunities employer. 

We hold the Investors in People standard as well as a commitment to Disability Confident and Mindful Employer charters.

No agencies please.

Exciting opportunity to be part of an innovative new Community Personality Disorder Service!

Project Manager - Community Personality Disorder Service
Based in Peterborough
Hours: 22.5 hours per week
Contract: 12 Months Fixed Contract (with possibility of extension)
Salary: £26,317 pa FTE, (£15,790 per annum actual) NJC Salary Scale Point 22

Cambridgeshire, Peterborough and South Lincolnshire (CPSL) Mind is a progressive and expanding mental health charity. Our vision is a society in which everyone has positive mental health and feels part of a connected community.

We are seeking an experienced manager to lead a small staff team in delivering a new Personality Disorder Community Service throughout Peterborough. This is a pilot service being delivered in partnership with Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Foundation Trust (CPFT) and will provide a strengths based approach using Dialectal Behaviour Therapy (DBT) sessions as well as peer support opportunities.

As this is a pilot project, the successful post holder will be able to adapt and respond to the needs of the project as it expands and grows.

You should be passionate about promoting positive mental health, be able to demonstrate robust managerial experience and have excellent verbal communication skills. To be successful in this role you will also have the ability to build strong working relationships with partners.

Closing date: 21 February 2020, 9am
Interviews: 2 March 2020 and 5 March 2020

PLEASE PRESS THE 'APPLICATION DETAILS' BUTTON FOR MORE INFORMATION ON HOW TO APPLY

We will only accept complete applications, which should include: Application Form, Covering Letter and completed Equality & Diversity Monitoring Form. 

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

No agencies please. 

Contracts Manager

After obtaining European Regional Development Funding to support “SME Competitiveness” in East Herts, there is an exciting opportunity to work on a 3-year project to expand the council’s flexible working facility (the Launchpad) and support social enterprise, bio-science and airport MRO sectors, as a Contract Manager.

Position: ERDF Contract Manager

Salary: Grade 8, £32,878 to £35,934 (not inclusive of local weighting) with part-time working and job share considered

Hours: Full-time, 37 hours per week

Contract: Fixed term contract for 3 years

Location: Bishop’s Stortford and Hertford

Closing Date: 8th March

We are looking for a highly motivated individual to contract manage key parts of the project. Some of the key responsibilities include:

• Monitor delivery of the contract ensuring that agreed targets, outcomes and outputs are met, on time and on budget, to agreed standards.
• Collation and reporting of budget, outputs and outcome data, in accordance with ERDF reporting and auditing requirements.
• Provide strategic advice on the overall Launchpad 2 project as required.

About You

The Contract Manager role would suit an individual with a strong eye for detail and accuracy, an understanding of the challenges facing business growth in the district and with some experience of managing externally funded projects.

The ideal candidate will have:

• Experience of managing contracts.
• Experience of writing business cases and specifications.
• General knowledge of the barriers and opportunities for business growth amongst small businesses.
• Ability to form positive relationships with different stakeholders.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

If you do not hear from us within 2 weeks of the closing date, please assume that your application has not been successful.

If your application has been successful, the recruiting manager will contact you to invite you to an interview.  We hope you enjoy the process and look forward to making contact with you very soon.

About the Organisation

East Herts is consistently rated as amongst the best areas in the country to live, with excellent schools and healthcare, a huge array of green space, beautiful waterways, unique market towns and picturesque villages.

Whatever the role, everyone contributes to delivering great services to the local community. The vision is to preserve the unique character of East Herts and ensure it remains one of the best places to live and work.

Our client is dedicated to staff development and individual success within a team framework. To help their staff deliver, they provide a supportive work environment, development opportunities and work to help everyone achieve their potential, whilst enjoying a positive work-life balance.

Benefits:

• A variety of flexible working options available, including part-time working, job share, compressed hours and home working
• Flexi-time scheme
• Free tea and coffee
• Local Government pension scheme
• Generous annual leave
• A range of discounts including high street retailers and local leisure centres
• Professional environment where your career path really matters and your development is supported by the organisation
• Flexible and supportive team

You may also have experience in areas such as Contract Manager, Contracts Manager, Contract, Contracts, Services Manager, Programme Manager, Commercial Contracts, Project Manager. 

We are looking for an experienced Head of Impact and Evaluation, to have end-to-end responsibility for the measurement of our client’s impact and the evaluation of their grant programmes.

Position: Head of Impact and Evaluation

Location: Harlow, Essex

Hours: Full-time, permanent

Salary: Circa £50,000 per annum, depending on experience

About the Role:

This is an exciting time to join this national charity at a time of growth. Working closely with our client’s Charitable Operations directorate, you will measure the impact of their varied and growing grant programmes. You will establish what works and what doesn’t, to help guide future investment. You will assess how far the charity is from achieving their vision and what is needed to close the gap.

Working closely with senior colleagues across the organisation, your key responsibilities will include:

• Develop and deliver a theory of change, so the charity can articulate what difference they make and how they will use their resources to achieve that
• Assess the current understanding of our client’s impact and identify what data and evidence they need to collect in the future
• Develop a clear understanding of financial, social and economic impact
• Build a new evaluation framework and evaluation plan.
• Lead ongoing evaluation work, assessing the aggregate and relative impact of a wide range of grant programmes and partnerships
• Ensure continuous improvement of our client’s impact and evaluation practice 
• Offer analytical expertise across the organisation, especially across research and innovation, to ensure that the charity takes robust, evidence-based decisions

About You:

As Head of Impact and Evaluation you will have a wealth of experience in evaluating programmes and measuring impact, as well as bringing with you the following skills:

• A relevant qualification in an analytical discipline such as economics, statistics or social sciences, or evidence of significant professional experience
• Ability to design and develop research programmes, including proven quantitative and qualitative research skills and familiarity with working with large datasets
• Ability to design and set up new functions, systems and processes
• Ability to manage and deliver multiple simultaneous projects across a wide range of areas, meeting agreed deadlines
• Exceptional written and oral influencing skills, including the judicious use of data and the compelling presentation of research findings
• Ability to manage a budget effectively and ensure good value for money

In Return…

You can be part of evolving programme of change taking place within a leading charity. With amazing benefits and an Investors in People Gold Award, this really is a fantastic opportunity to be part of an organisation that really cares about their employees, as well as knowing that what you do will make a real difference to the lives of disabled people!

Other roles you may have experience of could include: Head of Programmes and Impact, Impact and Evaluation Director, Monitoring, Evaluation and Impact Manager, Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist, Research and Evaluation, Head of Impact Delivery, Quant/Qual Research, Impact Development Lead, Head of Insight and Evaluation etc.