Are you calm, a good listener and supportive in your approach? Are you a clear decision maker and able to provide excellent customer care? We are looking for an On Call Advisor to join our experienced and highly professional Out of Hours duty team. 

The Out of Hours Duty Team based at our Head Office in Stockport Town Centre provides telephone advice and support to staff and services users across the agency. You must be available to work on a rota system for night duties 8pm – 8am across a seven night period. This post holder will undertake two shifts a week totalling 24 hours per week on a permanent basis and more shifts are available. The rota is set well in advance to facilitate people as far as possible.

This role provides an excellent opportunity for a candidate to develop a range of skills in relation to a wide variety of social care services within Creative Support.  The successful post holder will be good with telephone advice and competent in information systems to ensure logs of calls are taken. You will be an excellent team player and have proven interpersonal and listening skills.

You will work alongside the Senior Advisor to provide effective administration support. You will receive and log calls whilst supporting callers with general issues and providing an excellent standard of customer care. You will have worked in health and social care and have a good understanding of effective service delivery.

As a Creative Support employee, you are entitled to a number of benefits such as:
• Excellent training and development opportunities
• Free life assurance
• Pension with company contribution
• Highly serviced employee advice line
• A range of employee discounts

RASASC Cheshire and Merseyside are a registered charity providing specialist advice, support, and information to survivors of sexual violence across Cheshire and in Knowsley & St Helens (Merseyside). We have 8 centres based in our commissioned areas.

We are seeking a highly skilled and dedicated ISVA to work collaboratively within an integrated team of counsellors and pathway navigators. The ISVA will provide a trauma informed, service-user led service support to survivors of both recent and non-recent abuse and support clients in coping with and recovering from their experience of abuse/trauma. This post is full time and based in our office in St Helens, Merseyside.

Key responsibilities & duties:

• Conduct and regularly review comprehensive risk and needs assessments and individual, tailored care plans to help clients keep safe
• Identify/respond to risk/safeguarding concerns whilst following internal and local policies & procedures.
• Work partnership (and attend multi agency meeting) with a wide range of external partner agencies including the Police, CPS, Court Services, Social Care, Education, GPs, Mental health services etc to meet the needs of and provide specialist advice, support, and advocacy to victims of sexual violence
• Provide practical and emotional (non-therapeutic) support to clients in person/online/telephone
• Co-ordinate support to individuals on their pathway to wellbeing, recovery and social inclusion
• Work collaboratively and build trusting professional relationships with clients and external agencies.
• Complete internal/external referrals when appropriate and relevant signposting
• Provide support to clients to make informed decisions about their wellbeing, maximising their independence and engaging in appropriate community or clinical resources/interventions
• Explain criminal legal, and relevant, civil remedies to clients including criminal injuries compensation
• Provide specialist information, support and advocacy throughout the criminal justice system whilst ensuring clients are aware of their rights, choices and their voices remain central to the process
• Provide support and facilitate access to the Sexual Assault Referral Centre/GUM clinic
• Risk assess, respond, and follow local pathways in relation to Domestic Abuse, child sexual abuse which may include referrals to/attendance at multi agency risk assessment conferences
• Provide support to immediate family members where appropriate
• Manage a large caseload of clients, prioritise tasks and effectively manage workload.
• Accurately record data and maintain clients online case file in real time via the bespoke data system
• To complete accurate performance management reports to funders and commissioners
• Staying up to date with partner agencies, VAWG sector and legislation in order inform survivors
• To have a clear understanding and ability to respond to sexual violence myths, rape trauma syndrome, the long-term mental health effects of sexual violence, self harm, suicidal ideation.
• Any other duties commensurate with the role as requested by the senior management team.

BHA for Equality is looking to recruit a Sexual Health Advisor and Asset Based Community Development (ABCD) Lead to join their Greater Manchester sexual health team.

BHA is a leading health and social care charity that works to challenge health inequalities and support individuals, families & communities to improve their health & well-being. 

We are seeking a passionate and motivated team member who is committed to improving the sexual health outcomes for Black, Asian and Ethnic Minority communities.

You will be joining a friendly, creative, and dedicated collaborative team who are determined to reduce sexual health inequalities and challenge HIV related stigma and discrimination.

Overview of the area of work:

• To lead on developing and implementation of BHA’s sexual health Asset Based Community Development strategy. 
• To lead on all risk management procedures for the asset-based community development.
• Raise awareness of sexual and reproductive health issues (via digital and community-based engagement)
• Undertake asset-based community development (ABCD) activities to support individuals and their communities to determine, mobilise and develop their assets.
• Recruit, train, and support community assets across all boroughs of Greater Manchester.
• Ensure people from all communities can access HIV testing and other prevention tools so that no-one is left behind.

Experience of working with marginalised communities and working in a health-related field would be advantageous to your application.

Knowledge and understanding of Black, Asian and Ethnic Minority communities and the issues faced by them regarding access to sexual health provision would be essential.

The delivery of our work takes a blended approach (digital and community based) so strong interpersonal and digital skills are essential.

The benefits:

• Salary - NJC SO1 SCP 23 - 25 (£27,741- £29,577 pro rata)
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays pro rata
• Employers’ contributory pension scheme
• Blended working
• Flexi working
• UNUM Employee assistance programme
• Cycle to work scheme

We are taking positive action to encourage applications from Black, Asian and ethnic Minority men, trans and non-binary people to improve the representation of colleagues from these communities in our staff team.

Contract type: Fixed term until 30th June 2022 with the possibility of extension subject to funding

Hours: 35 hours per week including occasional evening and weekend work (for which time off in lieu will be given), as required. We would also consider applications from those who may be looking for a 28-hour post.  Please indicate on your application your preference.

Location: Manchester – remote initially due to Covid 19

Deadline for applications: 5pm 30th June 2021 (Please note late applications will not be accepted). 

Interviews: 9th July 2021 via zoom:

Please note CVs will not be accepted.

Applicants must be eligible to work in the U.K.

Due to the nature of this post, Enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service will be conducted on the successful applicant.

Victim Support is looking for an Independent Sexual Violence Advisor (ISVA) to work in our busy office in Accrington, Lancashire. This is a fixed term contract to cover a period of maternity leave which is anticipated to last 12 months.

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.

We are looking for an Independent Sexual Violence Advisor to join our busy team, supporting victims of rape and serious sexual assault from report to court. The role will be based in our Accrington office but you will support clients across Lancashire so must be able and prepared to travel independently.

Ideally you will have achieved ISVA accreditation, if not you must be willing to work towards this and complete within 12 months of employment. The successful candidate will have experience of supporting victims and survivors of sexual assault/abuse and can demonstrate empathy and understanding of the impact for victims. You will have a thorough understanding of the criminal justice process and be able to provide independent, impartial information and support for clients throughout the CJ process and beyond where required.

Victim Support offers competitive rewards and benefits including pension and life assurance, 25 days annual leave (pro-rata), voluntary benefits such as season ticket loans and the opportunity to play a key role in a national charity providing world-class services to victims and witnesses and being a vital force for change. 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/will be (delete depending on the role) 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

Victim Support is looking for a Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE) Children & Young Persons Independent Sexual Violence Advisor (CHISVA) to work in our busy team based in Accrington, Lancashire. This is a fixed term contract until 31/3/2023.

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.

We are looking for an Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE) Children & Young Persons Independent Sexual Violence Advisor to join our busy team, supporting victims of CSE, rape and serious sexual assault from report to court. The role will be based predominately in our Accrington office but you will support clients across Lancashire so must be able and prepared to travel independently.

Ideally you will have achieved ISVA accreditation, if not you must be willing to work towards this and complete within 12 months of employment. The successful candidate will have experience of supporting victims and survivors of sexual assault/abuse and can demonstrate empathy and understanding of the impact for victims. You will have a thorough understanding of the criminal justice process and be able to provide independent, impartial information and support for clients throughout the CJ process and beyond where required.

Victim Support offers competitive rewards and benefits including pension and life assurance, 25 days annual leave (pro-rata), voluntary benefits such as season ticket loans and the opportunity to play a key role in a national charity providing world-class services to victims and witnesses and being a vital force for change.

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 is 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 will 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.

Welfare & Debt Adviser
Fixed term contract for 1 year
Salary: £23,480 per annum

Our Welfare Rights Project has an excellent track record in Salford, and we need a new person to join our team. You will provide a comprehensive welfare benefits and debt advice service to clients with mental health issues, both at our offices in Salford and at outreach locations and other agencies within the city.

You will need a full driving licence and access to your own vehicle as the role requires travel to and from outreaches and home visits where necessary.

If you are intelligent, sensitive to the needs of people with mental health difficulties, committed to supporting and promoting their rights and have excellent written and verbal skills, then we would like to hear from you.

This job works with vulnerable adults and requires an enhanced disclosure under the Disclosure and Barring Service checks of criminal background. We also require at least 1 years’ experience of advising in this sector and satisfactory references.

Mind in Salford welcomes applications from people with lived experience of mental health problems.

Closing Date and time for applications: Monday 5th July 2021

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No agencies please.

Location remote during Covid.

Reporting to: Director of Programme & Innovation

As the Sophie Hayes Foundation continues an exciting phase of growth and development, supporting more women survivors of Human Trafficking, the role will be a valued member of the organisation’s Manchester & North team. The right candidate will focus on delivering both our Employability Programmes modules: Workshops and Coaching across the region, through effective and productive collaborations.

This is a role designed for someone who is people focused, has an eye to detail and is: encouraging, insightful, creative, organised and willing to adapt to the changing lives of those you are supporting.Have perseverance, a high level of flexibility and emotional intelligence.You will be quick to listen, understand and lead women forward as they navigate a challenging transition in their lives. You will have initiative with an ability to adapt ideas into action, alongside strong partnership skills as you build relationships with referral partners across businesses, social enterprises and colleges across the region.

Detailed Role Description

Delivery

1. Create, manage, and deliver both the workshops and coaching modules across the North in F2F and remote environments.
   1. Recruit survivors into the Employability Programme.
   2. Deliver Modules 1 & 2 using the Employability Programme content across group and 121 environments.
   3. Provide ongoing 121 survivor support whilst delivering the programme.
   4. Engage all survivors into The CREW our survivor led network, before during and after programme completion.

Partnerships

1. Ensure our survivors, partners and volunteers are engaged, motivated and ‘have a voice’ to influence and shape our programme design.
2. Engage with local, regional, and national networks.
3. Develop and grow partnerships with diverse stakeholders to support growing needs in both the remote and F2F delivery.
   1. NGO’s,
   2. Referral partners
   3. Educational institutes
   4. Business and community partners
   5. Faith based organisations.

Internal Relationships

1. Work with the Employability Programme Placements Supervisor to build robust relationships in the local and regional communities, in order to secure and support survivor placements.
2. Supervise and manage Employability Programme volunteers, with the objective of growing individual and group capabilities, skills, and resources.

Budgets & Reporting

1. Effectively and efficiently manage local programme.
   1. Budgets. 
   2. KPI’s, ensuring correct reporting of programme outputs and outcomes. 
   3. Development through insights and evaluations, learning and feedback. 
   4. Consistently work with and encourage the growth of leadership volunteers to increase organisation capacity and capabilities.

Person Specification:

Essential

• Minimum 3 years’ experience of successful programme delivery in the UK charity sector
• Educated to degree level or equivalent, or the ability to demonstrate competence through experience.
• Demonstrable direct experience of skilled facilitation for group as well as 121 support sessions/coaching.
• Experience of proactively researching and engaging current and prospective partners.
• Tangible knowledge of best practice in facilitation, coaching and programme delivery.
• Outstanding communication skills and the ability to tailor written and verbal content and style to a range of audiences.
• Experience of working to, and meeting KPI’s.
• Ability to work under pressure and deliver outcomes to tight deadlines.
• Required IT skills Microsoft Office including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook. (Blackbaud E Tapestry or similar CRM systems etc)
• Ability to work on own initiative as well as a key member of a team.
• Flexible and proactive approach and attitude
• Enthusiasm and drive to make things happen.
• Ability to work occasionally outside of normal office working hours.
• Supportive of a small but fast paced team.
• Supportive of non-Birmingham locations
• Ability to drive.

Desirable

• Knowledge and understanding of the human trafficking and modern-day slavery sector.
• Experience of working with vulnerable groups
• Experience of using social media and digital communication tools. 

Please note: We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified individuals regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age.

However, this post is open to female applicants only as being female is deemed to be a genuine occupational requirement under Schedule 9, Paragraph 1 of the Equality Act 20

Application Instructions

Please provide a cover letter explaining why:
1.You want to join the Sophie Hayes Foundation.
2. What strengths you bring to the role

Principal Policy Adviser, Domestic Regulatory Strategy Directorate 

£49,549 pa plus civil service pension scheme and excellent benefits 

LOCATION: Flexible

The ICO is looking for a Principal Policy Adviser (PPA) to join its Domestic Regulatory Strategy Directorate (DRSD). The focus of the role is developing the ICO’s policy positions and strategic response to new and emerging issues. This will involve engaging with important and senior level stakeholders and developing associated products and reports to communicate our approach. You will need to get to the heart of some of the most complex issues we deal with at pace developing practical outcomes. This can involve taking significant decisions with far reaching effects. The post holder will be expected to work collaboratively and draw on the expertise of others across the ICO. This is an exciting opportunity to help us shape how the future of digital regulation will impact and benefit the lives of the UK public.

About the ICO 

The ICO is the UK’s independent authority set up to uphold information rights in the public interest, promoting openness by public bodies and data privacy for individuals. 

The ICO’s work is interesting and immensely rewarding – it is of national importance and increasingly in the public eye. We are at the forefront of information rights policy development, providing direct advice to the public, and enforcing the UK’s data protection and freedom of information laws. We hold a unique position as a regulator across the whole of the private, public and third sectors. 

About you 

Your excellent analytical ability and clear and confident communication skills will be key. As a PPA you will prioritise competing issues and tasks in a varied workload. Your experience of leading projects to achieve change will stand you in good stead. Degree educated or equivalent, you will be self-motivated with a strong interest in strategic policy development. Knowledge of information rights laws is desirable but we also welcome applications from those who can demonstrate experience of applying similarly complex concepts with the ability to learn quickly. 

The ICO’s headquarters are based in Wilmslow, Cheshire, we have offices in Belfast, Cardiff, Edinburgh and London and may be able to offer some flexibility of location.

All postholders may be required to travel to engagements throughout the UK, and sometimes further afield. Therefore, your ability to travel and willingness to work outside of normal office hours on occasion is essential. 

How to apply 

Please visit ico.jobs to complete an online application form. 

Closing date: 23:59, 9 May 2021 

StreetGames is a national charity passionate about harnessing the power of sport, physical activity and volunteering, to change the lives of young people growing up in poverty, and the communities where they live. The work that StreetGames does makes young people and the communities they grow up in healthier, safer and more successful.

StreetGames understands that for the 1 in 3 young people growing up in poverty in the UK, life is hard.

Over the past 15 years, Locally Trusted Organisations (LTOs) in the StreetGames network have engaged with over 680,000 young people through Doorstep Sport, our proven methodology that provides sport in the right place, at the right time, led by the right people, in the right style and at the right price (usually free). Doorstep Sport provides young people growing up in the most disadvantaged communities with accessible and affordable opportunities to take part in sport within their local community, with a strong emphasis on youth leadership. We have delivered training workshops to over 43,000 community coaches and volunteers and together with LTOs in the network empowered over 20,000 young people through volunteering and social action.

We believe in building the resilience of communities and giving them the power to address their own unique needs, so we use a community asset-based approach, delivered in partnership with a network of over 1,400 locally trusted organisations with reach into poverty-hit communities across England and Wales.

The LTOs we work with can be small charities and youth clubs, or refugee groups and community trusts, these organisations are the lifeblood of their neighbourhoods. They have earned their spurs, built trust and won the right to make a difference in their community. They understand what will work and what’s needed on their patch. They reach those that others find ‘hard to reach’ and are able to work with us to replicate what works at scale and at pace.

StreetGames are the ‘people beside the people’, supporting local super heroes who work day in day out in LTOs supporting young people in their neighbourhoods. Our Doorstep Sport Advisors, Sustainability Leads and Tutors work to empower and upskill project leaders, youth coaches, volunteers and young participants to deliver a Doorstep Sport offer within their own communities that is sustainable and fit for the future. 

Alongside this we are able to offer training in new skills, national and local advocacy and the space to share ideas and connect with other LTOs facing the same challenges. All of this ultimately leads to better outcomes for thousands of disadvantaged young people.

Our current business plan focuses upon five themed areas: ensuring access to doorstep sport for young people from low income, underserved communities underpins all other aspects of what we do; our ‘Healthier’ work is currently focused upon our leadership of the national Social Prescribing Youth Network and upon further developing our approach to supporting mental wellbeing; our ‘Safer’ work is predominantly focused around Police and Crime Commissioners, we bring the sport and community safety sectors together to tackle youth crime and anti-social behaviour and the issues that can lead to serious youth violence; in our ‘More Successful’ workstream we are focused on strengthening the role of youth voice in all that we do and supporting young people as volunteers, in their local social action and in activities that will develop their employability; finally we have separately identified the ‘Holiday Gap’ and the triple inequities of inactivity, isolation and holiday hunger that blight the holidays of low income children and families.

In 2021 we are launching our strategy for the next 10 years. This sets out how we plan to have a real impact on those young people and families in poverty. We continue to be an insight driven organisation. Putting learning into practice is how we stimulate change.

About the Role of the Trustee

As a trustee of StreetGames, you will be responsible for developing and guiding the strategic

direction of the organisation as well as ensuring the long-term stability of the charity. You will

need to persuade, influence and communicate effectively with the rest of the board.

• To commit to the vision and values of StreetGames.
• To safeguard the good name and reputation of the organisation, and to act as an effective ambassador.

• To understand the issues and challenges faced by those affected in disadvantaged

communities.

• To contribute actively to the Board of Trustees through giving strategic direction to the organisation, setting overall policy, defining goals and priorities, setting targets and evaluating performance.
• To ensure that the organisation complies with its governing documents, charity law, company law and other relevant legislation and regulations.
• To ensure the financial stability of the organisation and its efficient administration.
• To act as a ‘critical friend’ to the Senior Management Team, offering both support and constructive challenge.

Person Specification

This role offers a unique opportunity for individuals with a passion for transforming lives through sport.

As well as replacing Trustees who are leaving after a wonderful service to StreetGames, we are seeking individuals to supplement our current skills and experience, with a particular emphasis on broadening our Board diversity. We have a good gender balance within our current Board composition and want to maintain that, however, we are particularly committed and want to focus on achieving better representation and broader diversity of individuals from diverse ethnic backgrounds and individuals with disabilities Additionally, we would like to add representation from groups that we serve as a charity e.g. individuals from or who grew up in low-income families. We believe in order to develop our mission and be forward thinking, adding a diverse range of individuals to our Board is paramount.

We operate across the UK and we would especially welcome applications from candidates in Wales.

Trustees are often chosen for existing board experience. However, we are interested in talking to anyone who can demonstrate strategic thinking and enthusiasm – we provide mentoring and training. We are looking for individuals who will encourage, challenge and support us to be the best we can be.

Knowledge and Experience

• Experience of working collaboratively on a Board or at a strategic level
• Understanding of equality, diversity and inclusion

We are also keen to find experience and knowledge in the following areas to supplement the skills of the existing Trustees:

• Accountancy
• National Governing Bodies of Sport
• Communications and PR
• Safeguarding

Skills

• Outstanding communication, interpersonal, ambassadorial and networking skills
• Good judgement
• Creative thinking
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Personal style and behaviour

• Passion for StreetGames’ mission and commitment to our values
• Willingness to speak up but also to work as a member of a team
• Able to embrace and enact Nolan’s Principles of Public Life – selflessness, integrity, objectivity, accountability, openness, honesty and leadership

Are you interested to join our Out of Hours Support Team?

Are you an excellent listener with a calm and responsive approach?

We are looking for an individual experienced in social care who has excellent customer care skills and a positive and confident communication style. You will need to be able to deal with issues that arise in a calm manner, offering appropriate support and advice to those who call. You will also require good IT and administration skills including Microsoft Word and Excel. The individual needs to be flexible on the days they work to ensure the rota is covered.

The Out of Hours Service

Creative Support’s Out of Hours service, based at our Head Office in Stockport Town Centre, provides essential support to staff, service users and third parties outside of normal office hours every day including Christmas Day.

Senior responsibilities: - This role is ideal for those individuals who are looking to progress into management whilst working within a very experienced and established team.

The OOH Service offers expert internal advice as a telephone service, run each night by a qualified and trained social care advisor and a trained administrator with support of the Senior on Call, a senior manager within the organisation. The core purpose of the service is to respond to serious issues and incidents that arise within the organisations services nationally. You will also be expected to carry out routine administration tasks such as preparing personnel files for CQC inspections, recording & managing incident reports and collating & organising timesheets.

Terms of the role

Hours are on a waking night basis, shifts are from 7.45pm till 08:15am.

Due to the nature of this role, the post is not suitable for individuals with commitments during the day which may affect their ability to perform a waking night shift.

What We Offer

This is a perfect opportunity for those who are seeking to progress in the health and social care sector. We will support your continuous development by offering training and support. You may also have the opportunity to get involved in other aspects of quality within Creative Support such as assisting with key pieces of quality work.

Citizens Advice Rossendale & Hyndburn has an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and dedicated individual to lead on the delivery of the Crisis Support and Recovery Project,  funded for 3 years through the National Lottery Community Fund.  This will help us build on the work we’ve been doing over the last 5 years through our Help Through Crisis Project.

The Project Coordinator will support the project team to achieve project outcomes. We will work with local communities and partners in Rossendale & Hyndburn to support those experiencing financial hardship to overcome their problems, empower them to strengthen the communities in which they live and give a voice to those with lived experience.  This will be achieved through shared learning throughout the community, advice, advocacy and the development of the Influencers Group to have a strong voice and support others who have experienced the same.

The most suitable candidate will have the ability to positively and proactively lead a team to achieve its goals, be able to develop and implement a project plan, have the skills to communicate well with partners and be committed to involving service users in the development and delivery of project activities.  You will be passionate about making a difference in the local community and have a shared vision with what we are trying to achieve.

This work will involve regular travel in Rossendale and Hyndburn and occasional national travel.

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and with all different kinds of life experiences. We are a Disability Confident Employer and guarantee to interview all disabled candidates who meet the minimum essential criteria for the role.

Please note that CVs will not be accepted without an application form.

About us:

PTMWA is a women-led organisation whose vision is to ensure that people, suffering, or at risk of domestic abuse receive appropriate support. We assist recovery by providing safe accommodation, specialist support services and by working in partnership with other agencies. We also run the only museum dedicated to telling the story of women’s fight for the right to vote at our Pankhurst Centre headquarters.

We are a diverse organisation with 28% of our staff coming from BAME and 20% from LGBT communities. We span the generations with 11% of staff being aged 18-24 and 25% aged 55-64. 11% of staff identify as having a disability.

Our staff, volunteers and service users have recently taken time to reflect on who we are and what we do when we are at our best. This reflection showed that we can proudly claim to be: 

Courageous by challenging inequality, stepping forward and making change

Affirming by supporting and inspiring, paying attention to discover what matters

Generous by sharing our skills, creating energetic positive links, and thriving together

Rooted by being secure in our communities, participating and nurturing a sense of belonging

About You:

You will be a pro-active, reliable individual who reflects the values of PTMWA in all that you do. Your experiences, whether in paid or voluntary work, will enable you to fulfil the role requirements but it is your attitude and character that will make you a successful team member.

You will enjoy a challenge and actively participate in delivering and developing services of the highest standard.

About the roles:

We have been successful in securing 3 x new projects and need additional staff and volunteers to deliver them. We welcome applications from people seeking part-time (17.5 hours) work as well as full-time (35). All roles are subject to a DBS check and we seek 2 x references, 1 of whom must be your current employer if applicable.

For volunteer opportunities alongside these workers, please visit our website.

Housing Worker – 1 Role

You will be responsible for income collection across the refuge estates and ensuring financial resilience and promoting economic independence amongst service users. You will be the organisation’s champion on Welfare Benefits and personal debt adviser, providing support to both service users and staff. You will develop effective partnerships with relevant local authorities and other agencies to facilitate the best service for residents. You will advocate for residents and support them regarding their housing status and benefit applications whilst also managing their tenancy compliance.

This role has been assessed and confirmed as open to women only under the Equality Act 2010, schedule 9, part 1

Hours of work: We will consider 17.5 hours and 35 per week

Salary: £18 434 per annum

Duration: permanent (subject to funding)

Annual Leave: 25 days plus Bank Holidays, pro rata for part-time workers

Application forms should be returned by midday on 2nd July 2021 and interviews will be on 9th July 2021.

New opportunity not to be missed! Centrepoint, the UK’s leading youth homelessness charity, is looking for a Head of Mass Participation & Events to join our Fundraising team based out of one of our office locations in London, Manchester or Bradford.

We have attached an application pack for this opportunity and we strongly advise applicants to review this prior to submitting their applications. Please note the closing date is 20 June 2021 and first stage interviews are scheduled to take place on 29 June 2021. 

We help vulnerable young people by giving them the practical and emotional support they need to find a job and live independently.

Together with our partners, we support thousands of homeless young people each year.

The Fundraising Directorate is responsible for generating and raising the funds need to support the work we do. Millions of pounds is generated through businesses and their employees, trusts and foundations, wealthy individuals and fundraising events.  Income from voluntary sources enables Centrepoint to provide non-statutory support services including the organisations in-house Learning and Health Teams and the Centrepoint Helpline.

Our Mass Participation and Events team are responsible for working with community-based individual fundraisers, challenge event participants and co-ordinating our flag ship events, Sleep Out and STAY:UP. They currently raise circa £600k.

The Head of Mass Participation & Events will play a leading role in Centrepoint’s Fundraising Leadership Team (FLT), who are responsible for the implementation of the fundraising strategy and effective cross-Directorate working across all teams. FLT have shared responsibility and accountability for strategic decision-making, building consistent ways of working and a collective positive, high-performing environment for the whole Fundraising Directorate.

The Head of Mass Participation & Events will be responsible for the strategic delivery and growth of a portfolio of fundraising mass participation products and events, which inspire and engage some of Centrepoint’s most committed and active individual supporters. Leading a small team of seven fundraisers, this income stream has great opportunity for growth. They will bring with them extensive knowledge and experience in diversifying challenge and community fundraising portfolios, in particular in the development of virtual fundraising initiatives.

What we’d be looking for from you…

• Extensive Fundraising experience, skills and knowledge of mass participation, community and challenge events fundraising, with a track record of growing income from this income stream
• Experience in delivery high quality special events and galas with a strong ROI, successfully managing and working with high profile Event Chairs and Boards
• Knowledge and experience of delivering engaging donor stewardship events to progress supporter journeys
• First-class donor management skills, delivering outstanding stewardship for community and events fundraisers.
• Track record of innovating within a Mass Participation and Events remit, transforming or introducing a new product, partnership or way of working which has delivered measureable success
• Experience in developing and delivering strategy, plans and budgets and being able to monitor and evaluate progress

What we offer in return...

In return for your efforts you’ll receive a competitive salary, excellent training and development, and a host of staff benefits including:

- 25 days of annual leave per year, rising by one day per year to a maximum of 27 days

- Excellent training package to ensure you have the skills and knowledge to build a new career

- Employer pension contributions of 4%

- Clear career progressions, linked to portfolio work, that enables movement up the pay scale

- Access to Cycle 2 Work loan scheme

- An interest-free travel loan

We seek to challenge discrimination and are committed to fairness and equality within Centrepoint. We welcome applications from anyone with direct experience of being homeless or using young people's services.

Don’t miss out on this fantastic opportunity to join our team as a Head of Mass Participation & Events, click ‘Apply’ now!

Depaul UK are currently looking for a Reconnect and Mediation Worker to join us in Greater Manchester. You will join us on a part-time, permanent basis and in return, you will receive a competitive salary of £20,859 - £22,899 (Pro Rata) + pension and benefits.

Depaul UK works with some of the most disadvantaged young people in the UK. We specialise in working in communities where poverty and long-term unemployment have resulted in generations of social exclusion and high rates of homelessness.

Over the past 30 years, we have grown as an organisation and developed and enhanced our work and the impact it has across the UK.  Depaul UK has a wide range of services for young people and adults at risk of homelessness.

The Reconnect and Mediation Worker role:

The Reconnect service, where you will be based, uses mediation techniques to provide support, resolve conflict, and strengthen personal relationships between clients and their families. It is a rewarding role where you will provide a wide range of guidance such as facilitating 1-1 sessions and joint party mediation to improve communication and understanding.

The successful post-holder will be working alongside external stakeholders, as well as the wider prevention team at Depaul, to continue in developing the service and defining our approach to preventing youth homelessness through family support and mediation work.

Day to day you will also contribute to the successful running of the Reconnect service and ensuring all safeguarding and health and safety procedures are upheld.

What makes the Reconnect and Mediation Worker role exciting?

- A full induction and training to enhance the skills required.

- Training in interpersonal mediation with an accredited provider.

- Regular peer support with other Depaul Mediators/Family Workers, either via Skype or in person

- External Clinical Supervision

- Training in the Depaul Endeavour model

- Continuous support and supervision including reflective practice to develop your learning and skills as a practitioner.

What will ideally support your success as one of our Reconnect and Mediation Worker?

- Demonstrable experience providing mediation services

- Experience of working independently and managing own caseload

- Good knowledge and understanding of Risk Assessments and Support Planning

- Significant experience working with young people and families

What’s it like to work at Depaul UK?

You'll be joining a friendly, flexible and values-led organisation, and will receive:

- Competitive salary

- 26 days of annual leave plus bank holidays

- Contributory pension scheme

- Life assurance

- Cycle to work scheme

- Interest free Annual Season Ticket Loan

- Four Weeks Paternity Leave

So, if this sounds like the perfect opportunity for you and you’d like to become our Reconnect and Mediation Worker then please click ‘apply’ today – don’t miss out, we’d love to hear from you!

Closing Date for applications: Wednesday 23 June 2021 at 12:00 pm

An enhanced DBS disclosure is a requirement for this role. Our recruitment checks, induction, and ongoing support and supervision reflect our commitment to safeguarding our clients. Depaul UK strives to be equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of the community.

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