Do you want to end homelessness in Bradford? 

We're looking for a compassionate hard working individual to join our team. 

Positive Pathways out of Homelessness Worker

This exciting ‘Pathways out of Homelessness Worker’ post has been developed in partnership with and is partly funded by the Church Urban Fund and the Liz and Terry Bramall Foundation through Wellsprings.  We have also received grants from the Safer Communities Fund and National Lottery to provide outreach support for homeless EEA migrants with addiction issues and to connect clients into a range of social support.  As well as supporting our existing work this post enables us to further extend our services to provide further crisis and short-term interventions to a wider range of clients experiencing/or at risk of homelessness ensuring that clients accessing our services develop skills and resilience to live a sustainable life.

Applications for the post are invited from those who have the relevant skills, experience and passion by submission of a detailed CV and covering application letter.

Only applicants providing a covering letter will be considered.

CVs should include: Name and contact details; Qualifications (level; date obtained; awarding body); Full employment history; Name of two referees (including current or most recent employer) – please indicate if these can be contacted after shortlisting

Covering letter should include: Why you are applying for the post; How you meet the essential and, if appropriate, desirable criteria; Confirmation that, if shortlisted, you are available for the interview date; Confirmation of right to work in the UK.

Closing Date:  Midnight, Thursday 10th December 2019

Shortlisting and Interview date: the following week

Job Title: Positive Pathways out of Homelessness Worker

Line Manager: Hope Housing Manager/Trustees

Main Base: Hope Housing Office                               

Salary: £20,495 p.a. £10.51 per hour

Pension:  3% until you have completed two years of service.

5% once you have completed two years’ service.

Hours: 37.5 hrs per week/ Part-time applications also welcome

Contract: Open ended.

Clearance required:  Enhanced DBS check

Purpose of the Post:

• To manage and provide support for clients in our supported tenancies to maintain their accommodation.
• Provide outreach support to homeless people to support them in a pathway out of homelessness.
• Connect beneficiaries into social support within the wider community, including recovery groups, walking groups, and other local activities.
• Specialise working with EEA migrants with addiction issues to support them on a pathway out of homelessness.
• As a member of the team to contribute to fulfilling Hope Housing's vision for the eradication of homelessness in Bradford.

Location: At our Harrogate (HG1 5LX) office and in Ripon (multiple outreach locations)

Hours: 

• Harrogate: 30 hours per week (4 days)
• Ripon: 18.5 hours per week (2.5 days)
• Adviceline (in Harrogate): 22.5 hours per week (3 days)

Citizens Advice offers confidential advice online, over the phone, and in person, for free. We give people the knowledge and the confidence they need to find their way forward – whoever they are, and whatever their problem.  We help with everything from money issues to problems at work, housing to consumer rights.

We are looking for someone who has good organisation and administration skills to support the services delivered by volunteers in our busy office.

The Advice Co-ordinator, reporting to an Operations Support Manager, is responsible for the day to day delivery of the General Advice Service to clients, whether that be face to face, by phone or email. Each Advice Co-ordinator will be predominately based in one location but will be required to travel to the other locations to assist with cover and other related activities.
This role is focused on the integrity and quality of advice delivered at the front line. The role will be the focal point for determining the desired atmosphere of professionalism and warmth within each location and will be expected to manage the vast majority of issues that arise on any particular day at the office. The role will also supervise, manage, quality check and appraise any volunteers involved in delivering the General Advice Service.

Funding: These roles are funded from our core funding from North Yorkshire County Council and Harrogate Borough Council

Application Closing Date: 12 noon on 9th December 2019

Interview Date: To Be Arranged, provisionally late Dec 2019 or early Jan 2020

For more information and to apply, please click on the Apply button.

Department: Business Development

Contract Duration: 6 months

Citizens Advice offers confidential advice online, over the phone, and in person, for free. Through our national network of charities, we give people the knowledge and the confidence they need to find their way forward – whoever they are, and whatever their problem.

Citizens Advice is a leading provider of debt advice and financial capability services across England and Wales.  In the last year, we helped 380,000 clients with 916,000 debt issues through our local network and had 3.2m page views of our debt content on the Citizens Advice Website.

To support this work, Citizens Advice has a team focused on money advice development team covering debt and energy advice alongside financial capability. Reporting to the Head of Money advice, this role is responsible for the development and delivery of the programmes of work under the debt and financial capability strategies.

We are seeking an exceptional candidate with significant experience of debt advice and financial capability work whilst the current postholder is on secondment.

It is crucial that the successful candidate has highly developed project management and strategic thinking skills and has significant experience of managing effective organisational design and change, particularly where there is a high level of public interest in the outcome.  The successful candidate will be experienced in using their analytical and judgement skills, with the ability to develop and compare alternative courses of action and arrive at well-reasoned recommendations.

We particularly welcome applications from disabled and Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME and disabled people are currently under-represented throughout Citizens Advice. We are a member of the race equality campaign at Business in the Community, the Prince’s responsible business network and are committed to improving employment opportunities for ethnic minorities across the UK. We also welcome applications from, LGB and Trans and non binary candidates. We have made a positive commitment to employing disabled people and guarantee to interview all disabled candidates who meet the minimum essential criteria for the role as set out in role profiles.

Interview date: 2nd December 2019

Volunteer Coordinator

Full Time 37.5 hours per week

Salary £20,750

The Bridge Project is looking for a resourceful, motivated individual to become a Volunteer Coordinator working across the communities served by the following GP Practices: Haigh Hall, Shipley, Cowgill, Thornton and Denholme, Sunnybank and The Willows. The aim of the Volunteer Coordinator’s role is to manage all elements of a volunteer scheme in primary care including the recruitment, training, placement and retention of volunteers. The Volunteer Coordinator will co-design a delivery model, that will enable volunteers to use their life experience and ability to improve the health and well-being of patients through the provision of a broad range of activities.

The ideal candidate will have worked in a voluntary sector, health or social care setting and have had experience of delivering training and working with volunteers.

Full details of the role and access to the on-line application form can be found on our website.

Please note, CVs will note be accepted.
Latest time and date for receipt of applications is 12 noon on 3rd December 2019
Interviews will be held on 11th or 12th December 2019