“None of the progress thus far would be possible without you - that's a fact! Every time you speak to someone on my behalf and then I have to speak to them - I always sense more empathy coming from them.” (Advocacy Client, November 2020)

Are you passionate about social inclusion, equality and social justice? Do you have experience working in partnership with vulnerable people who have health and support needs? Could you support and empower people with M.E./CFS say what they want, understand and secure their rights, represent their interests, and obtain the services they need?

If so, we are looking for someone to join our ambitious organisation to help us end the ignorance, injustice and neglect experienced by people with M.E. The purpose of this post is to amplify the voices of people with M.E./CFS by providing advocacy support to improve their access to services and the support they receive. If you are an empathetic, collaborative person up for a challenge, we’d love to receive an application from you.

The Centre for Sustainable Energy is seeking to appoint a Project Officer as 12 month maternity cover to work within our Household Energy Services (HES) team. This is a full time role (minimum 30 hours per week) with a fixed term to February 2022 based at our Bristol office (COVID regulations permitting). We would also be interested in secondments from other advice agencies.
 
The post holder will be responsible for providing in depth casework support to clients accessing our advice services, administration support on larger projects and potentially managing smaller projects. We are seeking an individual with experience of the benefits system which will include carrying out initial assessments and working with vulnerable clients to secure and retain these benefits. The job also involves working with clients to map out their income and expenditure in order to access funding for insulation and heating improvements, white goods and other essential items. You may also be required to act as an advocate on behalf of clients who are in fuel debt or in dispute with their energy supplier. As such you will already have experience of delivering advice and support to householders who are struggling financially. We are looking for someone who has a commitment and enthusiasm for giving advice to people in need of support and helping them to achieve positive outcomes in their lives. 
 

Carers Support Centre (CSC) - Bristol and South Gloucestershire provides a wide range of information, advice and support services for unpaid adult and young carers. Our Young Carers Service provides help and support to children and young people aged 8-18, their families, and professionals working with young carers.

Young carers are children and young people who look after someone in their family who has a disability, a long-term illness, or is affected by mental ill health or substance misuse. Young carers may look after parents, care for a brother or sister, or another family member.

We currently have a vacancy in our dynamic, creative and supportive Young Carers team, working to ensure that young carers are identified, have access to appropriate support and fulfil their potential.

The successful candidate will improve the health, well-being and safeguard the interests of young carers adversely affected by their caring roles for family members in the Bristol area by:

• providing individual tailored 1:1 support and advocacy
• taking a ‘whole family approach’ to delivering high-quality, effective and well-managed casework
• responding to referrals and carrying out statutory assessments
• managing the Bristol Keyworker team, sessional workers and student social workers

Please note the salary advertised for this role is the FTE - will be paid pro-rata for 30 hours per week.

All staff are temporarily working remotely due to Covid 19.

Registered Charity Number: 1063226

We are an Equal Opportunities employer and our workplace is free of barriers and fully accessible for people with disabilities. We are committed to safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults; from recruitment of staff through to supporting our team working with families and carers in crisis

Policy Leader

Salary: London - Between £42,00 - £46,100 + Excellent Benefits, National - per annum + Excellent Benefits

Location: London, Bristol and Manchester

Contract: Permanent

The National Housing Federation (NHF) is the voice of housing associations in England. We are the trade body to almost 600 housing associations, who have grown from philanthropic roots to provide 2.6 million homes to around 6 million people. 

Housing associations are not for profit social landlords, and are the largest providers of homes for social rents in the country. Housing associations build around a quarter of new homes every year, including almost all new social housing.

In this role you will shape and lead a long term programme of policy work on the supply of new homes, particularly social homes across England. You will work closely with our members – the nation’s largest developers of social housing – drawing on their frontline expertise and experience to shape and respond to government policy. 

You will help our members secure the public investment, private finance, land and planning permission they need to build new homes. And you will hold our relationships with high profile external stakeholders including senior Government officials. There is also the possibility of line management responsibility for one or more policy officers / assistants, and a chance to lead work across other policy areas as required. 

You will not necessarily be a policy expert in all areas of housing supply yet, but you will be passionate about social housing and the role of housing assocations in helping solve the housing crisis. You will have experience of shaping and leading a strategic and successful programme of policy work. You will be comfortable representing the NHF to senior stakeholders in Government, our members and elsewhere with credibility, expertise and political judgement. And you will be a strong collaborator, able to lead colleagues across the organization to deliver on our policy priorities. 

The NHF has recently published its equality, diversity and inclusion strategy, which was co-created with staff. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and we value the contribution each individual makes to our work.  The NHF is committed to ensuring our workforce reflects the diversity of the society in which we live and encourage applications from people of all different backgrounds, regardless of all protected characteristics or social background. 

We are a disability confident employer and if you are a disabled person who demonstrates you meet the skills and experience we consider essential for the role, we will offer you an interview.

Closing date for applications: 3 February 2021

Please note: if we receive a high number of applications, we reserve the right to close the advert, before the closing date

ABOUT US

Dean Farm Trust established in 2007 is a registered charity and animal sanctuary. Operating in Chepstow South Wales we offer a home for life to unwanted, neglected and abused animals. Our sanctuary is currently home to 185 farmed animals in 62 acres of pasture, paddocks and woodland, We promote compassion and a vegan lifestyle. Our sanctuary is open to the public, private visitors along with hosting tours and events throughout the year. Our ethos is to treat every single animal as an individual, caring for it giving the correct enrichment, feed, space, freedom and companisnship for their life. In the short time we have been open thousands of visitors have come to the sanctuary, many returning with their families and friends.

The primary aim of the Trust is to provide a home for life, shelter, warmth, food, and enrichment, to sick, ill-treated, and abused animals and animals that have been subjected to farming or sport.

To promote humane behaviour towards animals by providing care, treatment, protection, and security for animals and to educate the public in matters pertaining to animal welfare in general and the prevention of cruelty and suffering among animals. The Trust also promotes compassionate living and humane behaviour towards animals through a variety of public education and outreach activities.

Our Charity was delighted when earlier this year the wonderful "Matt Pritchard" became our Patron. He is an animal advocate and is about to embark on a huge challenge of Rowing aacross the Atlantic Ocean to raisefunds for our charity. 

We have had a number of articles written about us in the local and National magazines and papers supporting the work we do and sharing our stories.

In the sHORTt time we have been established our charity has one a number of awards and recently been voted the "Favourite Animal Sanctuary" in the UK by the prestigeous Vegfest.

In 2021 we plan to open our sanctuary doors full time from April to October  for visitors, educational tours and events to share the work we do and promote compasionate living.

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Wiltshire Citizens Advice is part of the network which delivers the Help to  Claim Service which offers end-to-end support to help people make a new Universal Credit claim and be ready for when their first payment arrives.

As part of this, there is a national network  of Best Practice Leads, to gather and share learning about how Universal Credit and the Help to Claim service is performing, develop relationships with relevant local stakeholders and share ideas and best practice. 

The role will work across a Jobcentre Plus district in Dorset, Hampshire, WIltshire and the Isle of Wight area to improve people’s experience of Universal Credit and Universal Support as well as feed into the wider Best Practice Lead network and work of national Citizens Advice.

You can be based anywhere in the region but must have the ability to travel to Wiltshire approximately 1 day per week.