About the Role

You will work directly with children and young people providing advocacy and other children’s rights support which will empower and support them to navigate the care system. This direct work will include issues based advocacy support for children in need, looked after children and care leavers, as well as children subject to the Child Protection process.

You will be a capable ambassador for Coram Voice with the ability to engage effectively with professionals, foster carers, commissioners, other stakeholders and most importantly children and young people.

Coram Voice particularly welcomes applications from care leavers or individuals with experience of being ‘looked after’ by the state. We are also actively encouraging 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 young people we help.

If you have the necessary experience and skills and a commitment to promoting the rights of young people, we would like to hear from you.

To apply, please click on the 'apply now' button to be redirected to our website.

For more information about the main duties and responsibilities of this role please refer to the job description and person specification.

Closing Date: 9am, 30th October 2020

Interview Date: 10th November 2020

All posts are subjected to an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check and successful candidates will not be able to work unsupervised with children or young people until the completion of this process. Coram Voice - working towards quality through equality and the development of a diverse workforce.

We ask that recruitment agencies do not contact us in relation to this position. We have chosen to recruit directly as this helps us to minimise our recruitment costs, ensuring that valuable funds aren't diverted from the children and young people we help.

Registered Charity Number 1046207

Job title: Case Officer

Region: Cheshire & Merseyside

Directorate: Operations

Contract: FTC to 28 February 2021

 25 Hours per week

Salary: £24,816 per annum – pro rata (£17,726)

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Our Values and Behaviours

Does the following describe you?

• A desire to provide a great customer service and support
• Enjoy and thrive in working in teams and with others
• Passionate about supporting the Armed Forces community and honouring their contribution
• Come to work each day to be the best you can and to learn and develop
• An encourager, eager to share your knowledge and experience to help others

If so then we would like to hear from you ….

The Role

An opportunity has arisen to join the Cheshire & Merseyside Area Team as a Case Officer on a part time basis (we require someone who is able to work full days on both Monday and Friday with a flexible approach across the remaining 11 hours).

As a Case Officer, you will work with individuals eligible for Legion assistance to help them to access the right support in a timely and seamless way in areas such as finance, employment, health, housing advice or overcoming temporary crisis. You will also support the work of our volunteer caseworkers.

A self-starter, confident working independently and within a great team, you will be responsible for forging successful relationships with statutory bodies and other agencies to maximise our reach and impact. An experienced and customer focused case manager, assured in advocating on behalf of clients, you will have a good understanding of the Social Welfare system and be used to working across multiple agencies. You’ll also need to be a strong team player, with excellent communication, planning and organisational skills.

Although predominantly home based due to Covid-19 currently, this role will involve significant travel throughout the area so a Driving license and use of a car would be desirable.

How to Apply

Please apply by clicking ‘Apply online’

Closing date for this role is: Sunday 1st November 2020 with interviews scheduled for 9th November 2020

We reserve the right to close this vacancy when we are in receipt of sufficient applications. Should you wish to apply for this post you are advised to complete and submit your application form as soon as possible.

Overview – Justlife Greater Manchester
Justlife works with the hidden homeless community, living in B&B’s and Guesthouses, considered ‘unsupported temporary accommodation’ (UTA). Our vision is to make people’s experience of housing vulnerability as short, safe and healthy as possible.

Based in Higher Openshaw, East Manchester, Justlife currently works across Manchester and Tameside providing re-housing advice, benefits advice and one-to-one key work support to empower vulnerable adults housed in UTA to move towards more secure housing, independent living and improved health and wellbeing. This includes supporting UTA managers and landlords.

Justlife have recently completed research mapping out the number of UTAs across Greater Manchester. Now that we know WHERE individuals are, in the coming year we intend to roll out a new ‘mobile’ model of operating - taking our work OUT to reach residents across GREATER MANCHESTER, enabling more residents and landlords to access the support they need.

Job Summary: The role of Specialist Support Worker involves playing an active part in the Specialist Support Team by taking part in regular outreach visits to UTA’s across Greater Manchester and supporting a caseload of clients that are experiencing varying stages of housing vulnerability. The role requires the use of specialist knowledge and relationship skills to support clients with varying degrees of mental health, addiction and trauma related issues to engage with health services and to access suitable housing solutions. The Specialist Support Worker is also expected to develop good working relationships with UTA Landlords and Managers recognising the important role that they play in ensuring that their tenant’s experience of UTA is as positive as possible.

This will include advocacy in registering them for medical services and accompanying them to appointments; assisting them in addressing all aspects of physical and mental health and addiction needs, as well as advocating for them to get access to suitable housing and social security benefits. The role is dependent on excellent communication and joint working with colleagues and a variety of partners and professionals.

The role requires a high degree of motivation in addition to creativity and flexibility to support people with multiple and complex needs. With a passion to work collaboratively with others for the good of our clients, and with experience of working in a related field in a voluntary or paid capacity.

A high degree of emotional intelligence is required to support clients, many of whom have complex emotional needs, with backgrounds of trauma, neglect, abuse, crime and low self-worth. In a role of this nature you will experience a range of emotions from joy to grief and as such it requires a high degree of resilience and self -awareness to cope with the emotional demands of the role. The role sits within a highly supportive team with all staff in receipt of regular line management, external clinical supervision and professional training; with reflective practice actively encouraged in weekly team meetings.

Disrupting Exploitation Worker (2 roles)

Permanent contract with provisional end date of May 2021 due to funding.

37 hours per week.

£23,388 per annum / pro rata (plus allowances)

Two roles are currently available in the following locations: Greater Manchester (Wythenshawe Office) & Birmingham (The Big Peg Office) Please specify the area you are applying for in your personal statement.

The Children's Society has been helping children and young people in this country for over 130 years. We run local services that support children when they are at their most vulnerable and in desperate need of help. We're there for children, every step of the way.

This role sits within our children and families directorate, which works to provide immediate one-to-one and group support for children who urgently need support. Your role will be part of our Disrupting Exploitation National Programme, working 1:1 with young people who are at risk of or experiencing exploitation, as well as to work in partnership across the local area to support young people, identifying patterns and problems in the system that responds to young people and action solutions to disrupt exploitation.

We are currently looking for a highly-skilled, young-person focused practitioner join our dynamic, ambitious team.

A key part of this role will be your ability to build relationships with young people and provide them with holistic support, as well as an ability to work in close partnership with other local agencies to tackle systemic issues that young people are facing.

KEY SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES

In order to be successful in this role, you must have:

-Significant experience of supporting young people facing complex safeguarding concerns

-Experience of partnership and multi-agency working, including delivering training to professionals

-Ability to work with young people displaying challenging behaviours in both 1:1 and group settings

-Working knowledge of relevant policy and practice relating to child protection and safeguarding of young people, in particular exploitation.

INFO ABOUT THE CHILDREN'S SOCIETY

The Children's Society runs over 100 local services that help thousands of young people who desperately need our support, and we campaign to get laws and policies changed to make children's lives happier and safer.

Every day we're changing the lives of children in this country for the better - and with your help, tomorrow we can be there for even more.

The Children's Society is committed to safeguarding and protecting the children and young people that we work with. As such, all posts are subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks. We ensure that we have a range of policies and procedures in place which promote safeguarding and safer working practices across our services.

Therefore, candidates applying for work in our CYP Directorate will be required to complete an “Employment history_template” document prior to interview. The fully completed document should be loaded by the candidate at the point of uploading your CV.

The closing date for applications is on 6th of November 2020.

Interviews will be held on the week commencing 16th of November 2020.

TLC: Talk, Listen, Change is a dynamic, leading relationships charity based in Manchester.  Our RESPECT accredited Domestic Abuse Prevention Programme (DAPP) is developing & growing, therefore, we are seeking to recruit an enthusiastic, experienced, committed individual to lead our team of facilitators.  We are offering a full time permanent position for a Service Manager.

The successful candidate will join our team to support the management of a dedicated team of facilitators delivering a range of Domestic Abuse programmes across Greater Manchester.  This role will help to support, inspire and manage practitioners working within services focused on prevention, early intervention, behaviour change including services for victims, perpetrators, children and young people

This post is subject to an enhanced DBS check.

Who we are looking for 

We are looking for a motivated and talented Sales Operations Manager to join our School Partnerships team. This role will be responsible for project managing the go-to-market process from end-to-end, as well as making strategic recommendations based on forecast and performance metrics.This is a fantastic opportunity to take ownership of, and be responsible for, driving real change across the whole of Ambition Institute. 

Based our London, Manchester or Birmingham office, and reporting to the Operations Director, you’ll be responsible for ensuring that any bottlenecks and inconsistencies are eliminated through the development of sales incentive programs and strategic planning. You will require a detailed skillset and will be involved from business case inception to ongoing post implementation support. The role will engage directly with internal teams and external vendors to ensure smooth delivery against constantly evolving requirements. You will be responsible for the administration of our CRM system, ensuring that optimal performance is achieved, and technology is being utilized to maximize productivity and efficiency.

This exciting role is varied and complex, and will require a robust, agile and creative project manager to fulfil the needs of the organisation. It is essential that you have leadership experience and robust comprehension of high-level sales strategy. You must drive and adhere to best practice, whilst being innovative and collaborative in your approach. The ideal candidate will be at the forefront of advances in process design and implementation and must also be a passionate advocate of change and advancement in the organisation. 

Who are Ambition Institute? 

Ambition Institute has one purpose: to help educators serving children from disadvantaged backgrounds to keep getting better. With our new organisation, and more than ten years of collective experience in working with educators at all levels, we believe that exciting opportunities lie ahead. We are a graduate school for educators, and we apply academic rigour to our learning design, drawing on frontline insights from schools into what works in practice. Our programmes leverage the latest evidence from international experts, which means we think carefully about what is taught, how, and in what sequence. We work collaboratively to enable school improvement for the benefit of pupils, particularly those from disadvantaged backgrounds.

Our offer 

We are happy to announce that we will be able to offer you: 

• Flexibility on how you work – agreed between you and your line manager 
• A competitive annual leave entitlement of 25 days, plus bank holidays 
• 2 additional annual leave days for 1 day booked during December over the festive period 
• A generous employer pension contribution of 11% (10% pension plus 1% NI rebate) 
• Competitive salary rates
• Access to an interest free season ticket and bike loans, as well as eyecare vouchers 
• An Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) which provides confidential support for employees on personal or work-related matters. 
• A robust learning and development offer that ensures your continuous professional development 

How to apply 

We will be assessing applications on an ongoing basis, and will end the advert early if we receive a large number of applications. We recommend all interested candidates to apply for the role as soon as possible.

To apply for this role, or any of our other vacancies or for any questions or queries please visit our website. 

Equality and diversity matters to us. If you think you’d be suited to one of our roles we’d love to hear from you regardless of age, disability status, ethnicity, gender, religion or sexuality. 

Who we are looking for

We are looking for a motivated and talented Operations Director to oversee, manage, and deliver the operational strategy for School Partnerships. This role is responsible for providing line management and development of the two Associate Directors that head up the Enquiries and Applications & Operations Teams. This is a fantastic opportunity to take ownership of, and be responsible for, the B2B and B2C strategy across the whole of Ambition Institute.

Based in one of our London, Birmingham, or Manchester offices, and reporting to the Chief Recruitment Director, you’ll be responsible for delivering operational strategic direction and support to the School Partnerships department. You will lead the Sales Operations and Enquiries teams to achieve against their strategic priorities for improving our operational efficiency, converting all interested applicants into a sale, and ensuring an overall excellent applicant experience.  You will work collaboratively with our School Partnerships area teams to meet stretching recruitment targets, and to continually improve our practise across the department. You’ll need to match a keen eye for operational effectiveness delivering business as usual, with a clear vision for future direction and the strategic insight to deliver it.

This exciting role is varied and complex, and will require a robust, agile, and strategic individual to fulfil the needs of the organisation. It is essential that you have a strong commitment to education and extensive experience in sales/partnerships environment. You must drive and adhere to best practice, whilst being innovative and collaborative in your approach. The person in this role should be at the forefront of driving the Sales strategy and must be a passionate advocate of change and advancement in the organisation.

Who are Ambition Institute?

Ambition Institute has one purpose: to help educators serving children from disadvantaged backgrounds to keep getting better. With our new organisation, and more than ten years of collective experience in working with educators at all levels, we believe that exciting opportunities lie ahead. We are a graduate school for educators, and we apply academic rigour to our learning design, drawing on frontline insights from schools into what works in practice. Our programmes leverage the latest evidence from international experts, which means we think carefully about what is taught, how, and in what sequence. We work collaboratively to enable school improvement for the benefit of pupils, particularly those from disadvantaged backgrounds.

Our offer

We are happy to announce that we will be able to offer you:

• Flexibility on how you work – agreed between you and your line manager
• A competitive annual leave entitlement of 25 days, plus bank holidays
• 2 additional annual leave days for 1 day booked during December over the festive period
• A generous employer pension contribution of 11% (10% pension plus 1% NI rebate)
• Competitive salary rates
• Access to an interest free season ticket and bike loans, as well as eyecare vouchers
• An Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) which provides confidential support for employees on personal or work-related matters.
• A robust learning and development offer that ensures your continuous professional development

How to apply

All applications must be received by the closing date, midnight on 1st November 2020. Interviews are expected to take place the week beginning 9th November 2020.

To apply for this role, or any of our other vacancies or for any questions or queries please visit our website.

Equality and diversity matters to us. If you think you’d be suited to one of our roles we’d love to hear from you regardless of age, disability status, ethnicity, gender, religion or sexuality.

This is an exciting opportunity for someone who enjoys synthesising information and can use their influence and professional authority in varied situations. The Participant Suitability Manager will ensure we provide high quality guidance and support to participants on the Frontline programme, working closely with Frontline’s Programme Management team and Manager to ensure a smooth process. The role comprises three core areas:

Chairing panels

The participant suitability manager will chair participant suitability panels; fitness to practice panels and learning reviews. This vital role requires a social work qualification and experience of chairing complex meetings with a range of partners and professionals.

Managing 2 Selection Advisors and 1 Disability Selection Advisor

You will manage Frontline’s selection advisors who are based in various locations and hold accountability for advising teams on participants suitability for the Frontline programme.

Investigating participant complaints

Carry out investigations for complaints from or relating to participants. Speak to relevant parties, working alongside the compliance team to ensure timescales and process are followed.

Emerging Futures’ greatest resource is its people, so we also offer our employees generous annual leave, pension, and other benefits.

Emerging Futures has secured a 3-5-year contract to deliver substance misuse and housing support services across Cheshire East. Our Housing Related Support is informed by both harm reduction and ‘Housing First’ principles and is driven operationally via a culture of values based, passionate leadership.

We are extremely proud of our services and are looking to recruit passionate and enthusiastic Housing Project Workers who are able to engage and offer support to people who present with a range of complex needs, including poor health & wellbeing, low self-esteem, low levels of literacy, substance misuse issues, non-existent family relationships and who have difficulty forming and sustaining new relationships.

If you thrive on working in a challenging but rewarding environment and have a real desire to make a difference to people’s lives, this role could be for you!

This requires the ability to work on a rolling rota basis covering days, evenings and weekend across our Housing Related Support provision in Crewe or Macclesfield, Cheshire East.

Our Passion Statement

At Emerging Futures, we believe that everyone has the potential to change, grow and learn and to achieve the best they can in everything they do. We know it takes courage and commitment to change, which is why we have a passion statement, rather than a mission statement. To us, being passionate means:

• celebrating success and achievement
• creative and daring enough to innovate
• determined to persist when things get tough
• brave enough to say when something isn’t good enough
• humble enough to accept and learn from criticism
• willing to take responsibility for making things better

Above all, being passionate means having the desire to nurture, facilitate and empower others to reach out with hope to achieve their full potential.

This job is for you if…

• You are someone who is committed to our passion statement and shares in our belief in the potential of all individuals, and that empowering individuals to support each other leads to positive change; not only for themselves, but also for their communities
• You are passionate about improving the health and wellbeing of those experiencing homelessness and rough sleeping and can support complex individuals from first point of contact to resettling in their own home.
• You are fun, approachable, energetic, confident, warm, empathetic, ambitious, flexible, resilient, discreet, organised, and professional.
• You are passionate about promoting recovery, tackling homelessness, and working in collaboratively with partner agencies.

What you will be doing

• Supporting tenants to maintain their tenancy by providing hands on, practical help and advice across our network of shared, supported housing.
• Working with the Local Authority and other agencies to create move-on options and improve the health and wellbeing of tenants through direct 1-1 work.
• Supporting the development of recovery and employment initiatives for tenants across Cheshire East, working with local third sector and grass roots organisations, associations, and individuals.
• Supporting residents in financial planning and providing debt counselling and support where appropriate.
• Ensuring residents understand their tenancy agreement and their rights and obligations.
• Managing accommodation for individuals, enabling residents to access pathways to meet their more immediate needs before moving on to full independence, their own tenancies and meaningful activity.

Some of the skills, knowledge and experience you will have

• A keen and comprehensive awareness of homelessness issues, interventions and understanding specific ways to support tenants with ingrained and entrenched negative behaviours.
• Excellent all-round communication skills and the ability to manage relationships.
• An ability to undertake accurate and comprehensive assessments of need, identifying levels of risk, recovery potential and establishing immediate and longer-term recovery goals.
• An ability to work effectively with groups using a structured planned approach.
• Experience of working in or with adult social care services within the charitable, third or public sector.
• A flexible attitude towards your work and a knowledge of local services and geography in Cheshire East.
• Flexibility and access to transport as you may be required to visit other sites across Cheshire East.
• We welcome applications from people with lived experience; however, all employees are required to have an enhanced DBS.

How to apply

If you are interested in applying for either of these new and exciting roles within Emerging Futures, please send your Application Form or CV along with a covering letter detailing why you are suitable for the role to Victoria Duncan on the email provided.

As a Health and Safety Officer at Creative Support, you will be part of the Health and Safety Team based in our Head Office at Stockport.  You will work with many different teams across Creative Support to help services undertake work activities in a safe way. You will provide advice, support services and go out to our services around the UK. You will be expected to work closely with colleagues to support Creative Support’s health and safety and risk management policies, procedures and systems. The main focus of your role will be to:

• Conduct planned health and safety inspections and audits

• Carry out responsive inspections and safety reviews

• Undertake specific risk assessments and devise risk management plans

• Produce written inspection and other reports on a timely basis

• Contribute to health and safety related training

• Provide practical and professional health and safety advice and assistance to staff.

You will need the following qualities and skills:

• You enjoy helping people and solving problems
• You have excellent attention to detail
• You have some knowledge of social care or property services.
• You are confident using Microsoft Word, Excel and databases.
• You display a professional and confident approach in dealing with people.
• Good written communication skills
• You will need to flexible and adaptable.
• You're happy with travelling to different locations to do on-site inspections and visits

Whilst this is a generic health and safety role it is expected that the Health & Safety Officer will develop a specific interest and competency in fire safety, for which additional specialist training will be provided. Our ideal candidate will hold IFE membership and possess relevant Fire Safety qualifications, or have significant operational experience of implementing good practice in a pragmatic way.

This role offers the chance to work within a rewarding environment and have the responsibility of supporting and managing the Health and Safety function while making improvements to process, practices and procedures. The salary will be up to £21,000 depending on experience. You will be paid monthly via BACS transfer. This role will require you to spend time away from the office in services during the week and there may be some home working. The general working pattern will be Monday to Friday with very occasional travel on the weekend. The working pattern and hours are flexible due to the nature of the role. This role is also open to candidates who would like to job share.

Other benefits include:

• Comprehensive induction,

• Ongoing fully funded professional training to develop your career.

• Friendly, open, flexible work culture,

• Mileage allowance or travel and hotel expenses reimbursed,

• Company sick pay scheme,

• Electronic ICT equipment provided,

• Free Life Insurance Scheme,

• Weekly management support from the Health and Safety Manager,

• Full Corporate Support from an established Not for Profit Provider,

• Exclusive online retail discounts scheme,

• Free Employee Assistance service,

You must already have the legal right to work in the UK to be eligible for this post.

Please check the attached job description for full details.

About Creative Support:

Creative Support is a dynamic, charitable organisation providing support to individuals with a wide range of care and support needs across England. We are also a Registered Provider of Social Housing with over 1,000 tenants with support needs in properties that we own or manage. We are regulated by the CQC and HCA and must demonstrate high standards of health and safety compliance. As a large employer of over 5,000 staff we seek to promote high standards of safety awareness and good practice.

TLC: Talk, Listen, Change is a dynamic, leading relationships charity based in Manchester.  Our RESPECT accredited Domestic Abuse Prevention Programme (DAPP) with intregrated partner support service is developing & growing, therefore, we are seeking to recruit an enthusiastic, experienced, committed individual to join our team.  We are offering a part time position of 30 hours per week on a fixed term contract until 2022 with the possibility of an extension.

The successful candidate will join a dedicated team delivering support across Greater Manchester, you will undertake safety focused support work with the partners and ex-partners of clients who attend the domestic violence prevention programme undertaking risk assessments, delivering individual support sessions and liaising with a range of key agencies.

This role is to undertake safety focused support work with the partners and ex-partners of clients who attend the domestic violence prevention programme. Referrals are taken from: Cafcass and Children’s Departments, as part of public or private law risk assessments and clients who self-refer, often via TLC or Respect.  To take a role in the ongoing development of this service and its integration with a Domestic Abuse Prevention Programme

This post is subject to an enhanced DBS check.

Female applicants only can apply for the post as this is an occupational requirement in accordance with paragraph 1, schedule 9, section 7.2e of the Equality Act 2010

An exciting addition to our team.  Empowering people to take control of their health and wellbeing.  Working with the local GP networks and taking a holistic approach you will support people to connect back into their community through practical and emotional support.

You will be an innovator, who is self motivated, and who has knowledge and experience in the social care or health fields.

There are three posts available - 1 full time (35hrs per week) and 2 part time (21 hours per week).  The part time posts have an option to increase hours should the demand require it.  The full time post is initially for 12 months and the part time posts intially 6 months. If successful there is potential for the posts continuation beyond initial term.