Beds SU, the student-led charity at the University of Bedfordshire, seeks a Member Relations Coordinator to lead a high quality ‘enquiries service’ for our students.

If you want to work in a fun, caring and professional organisation, committed to improving the lives of our members, then please apply.

The Member Relations Coordinator exists to provide quick, two-way problem-solving for all students at all campuses at the University, mostly via digital means involving our communications platforms (e.g. email, social media, administrative platforms).

This role will be suited to someone passionate about delivering high quality customer service and uses their own initiative to achieve. To be successful in post one must be a natural problem-solver and quick to grasp how things work; be friendly and personable with excellent customer service skills. A self-starter, you’ll be eager to do a job well. You must be a coherent and clear communicator, with good English writing ability and savvy with technology – comfortable working with online platforms, email and social media accounts.

To apply, please read the job description thoroughly and complete our online application via our website.

Applications should be submitted no later than 9am on Monday 22 March 2021.

An equal opportunities employer, we welcome applications from those from Black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds, as they are under-represented at Beds SU. We are happy to discuss any reasonable adjustments individuals may require, and happy to talk flexible working.

We are looking for an experienced trainer to deliver essential employability, character and soft skills training to marginalised KS4 students.

Making The Leap is a small and innovative social justice charity that aims to make a big difference. From direct delivery, to advocacy and leadership, we refuse to stay in our lane and believe passionately that those we exist to serve have the right to be anything they want to be. To say that this is an exciting time for the organisation would be an understatement, as our incredible funders, donors, partners and supporters have given us the chance to move to the next level, and have further influence and delivery nationally.

The shared soul of the organisation is to be passionate about helping young people from less-advantaged backgrounds; build up other charities and community groups and want to partner with them or support them; want to work with businesses and organisations to get things done; and care deeply about addressing racial inequity generally (and anti-Blackness in particular). The people here work hard, are good at what they do, and for so many it is ‘home’, with an average tenure of 11 years.

The organisation has a number of strands: core Making The Leap; the UK Social Mobility Awards; the Social Mobility Podcast and our brand new initiative Black Charity Leaders.

nia has been delivering services to women, girls and children who have been subjected to sexual and domestic violence and abuse, including prostitution, since 1975. The organisation has three main aims: to provide services for women, girls and children who have experienced men’s violence; contributing to ending male violence against women and girls, and to inform and influence policy and public awareness.

We have recently noticed that we receive fewer applications for our posts supporting women involved in prostitution. If you think you have what it takes to do this work but you’re worried that you might not have the right experience, please call us – let’s talk about it. We may be able to consider training and additional support for you.

We are delighted to receive funding from the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC) to develop The Anita Project. The Anita Project has been devised to bring about long-term sustainable change for women facing multiple disadvantage and who are involved in prostitution in London. This service will build on nia’s existing work to support women to exit prostitution.

Hours: 35 hours

This post is currently funded until 31 March 2022. It is our policy to try to offer staff alternative posts in the organisation if funding for the post they are filling ends. 

This is an exciting new post focussing on supporting women to exit prostitution. The service builds on our existing work to support women involved in prostitution in east London. The post holder will provide wide-ranging support with a particular focus on supporting women using drug and alcohol services, who are abused through ‘survival sex’. The postholder will be responsible for forging links with drug and alcohol services to ensure maximum engagement and take up of services from women who are being sexually exploited.

We are looking for a highly organised and self- motivated woman who is passionate about supporting other women to rebuild their lives after prostitution. You’ll have a ‘can-do’ approach, be passionate about prioritising women and be committed to nia’s feminist approach. Your values, attitude and abilities are as important as your experience.

The post is subject to an enhanced vetting and barring check and open to women only. Genuine Occupational Requirement (GOR), Schedule 9 (Work; Exceptions), Part 1 (Occupational Requirements), of the Equality Act (2010) applies.

CV’s will not be accepted.

Closing Date: 10am, 8th March 2021     

Interview date: 16th March 2021

Training Coordinator

37.5 hours per week

£19,985 to £26,297

Permanent

Bristol (home during Covid Pandemic) with occasional travel across UK

SafeLives’ Training team develops the knowledge and skills of professionals responding to victims and survivors of domestic abuse, whether adults, young people or children.

Our training programme across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland aims to create:
• user value: with learners who attend our training feeling more confident and better equipped to fulfil their role
• social value: with measures showing professionals who attend our training provide more effective interventions for those who experience abuse
• financial value: responsible for generating around a third of SafeLives’ annual income

The programme includes sector leading accredited training:

Foundation and Specialist courses: for independent domestic violence advisors (Idvas) and independent domestic abuse advocates in Scotland (Idaas), independent sexual violence advisors (Isvas), domestic violence and abuse outreach workers, and other frontline workers who come into contact with people experiencing domestic abuse.

SafeLives also delivers Domestic Abuse Matters (DA Matters), a change programme for police officers and staff which we deliver on behalf of the national College of Policing.

SafeLives is very proud of its reputation for high quality training programmes, and your role in maintaining our standards and delivering for learners will be vital. As a Training Coordinator for SafeLives, you will provide effective and efficient co-ordination of resources and support for the Training team and the learners across all SafeLives’ training programmes.

Benefits include a generous package including 25 days’ holiday per year plus public holidays, employee pension scheme with 4% employer contribution, Cycle2Work scheme, 365 days a year Employee Assistance Programme.

If this challenge sounds as exciting to you as it does to us and you believe you have the qualities we have described, please take a look over the job description and submit a 500-word cover letter, CV and equal opportunity form.

Closing date: Friday 12th March 2021

SafeLives is a committed provider of equal opportunities for all, please see our job description for full details.

No agencies please.

Would you like to work for a leading mental health charity?

Do you want a rewarding career where you can really make a difference?

If yes, join us here at Rethink Mental Illness.

We have a very exciting opportunity for a Supervising Advocate to join and supervise our friendly Essex Advocacy team. Your role will be a permanent term position working full time, 35 hours per week based in the service.

Our Essex Advocacy service works in accordance with relevant legislation and statutory guidelines to provide specialist advocacy services as appropriate across a range of disciplines including, IMCA, DOLS, RPR, IMHA, Care Act and Community Advocacy. We are currently developing and growing our CYP Advocacy Team. We provide a range of generic and statutory (instructed or non-instructed) support in secure units, hospitals, care settings or in the community.

Who are we?

We’re Rethink Mental Illness, a leading charity provider of mental health services in England. We support thousands of people through our groups, services, policy, campaigns and advice and information. Our work supports us in delivering on our mission: “A better life for everyone severely affected by mental illness.”

In everything we do, we seek to demonstrate our values: Passion, Commitment, Openness, Hope, Expertise and Understanding. If these values resonate with you, we would love to hear from you.

What will you be doing?

• Co-ordinating a high quality, responsive and effective advocacy service in accordance with the service specification, contract and legislative timescales; ensuring a consistent standards are maintained and delivered in an empowering framework.
• Maintaining a thorough understanding of how the contract should be delivered, actively monitoring and taking action on performance against KPI targets and deliverables; ensuring that the service demonstrates positive outcomes, impacts and added value.
• Allocating referrals in accordance with the service standards and engagement protocols.
• Reviewing and checking monthly advocate reports for accuracy and quality and conduct case file and practice audits and reviews.
• Supporting advocates with case management and practice issues including report writing and reviewing.
• Recruiting the best talent and ensure that all new staff and volunteers receive a high-quality workplace induction; ensuring they have the knowledge, information and resources to be successful in their roles.
• Contributing to the promotion and understanding of the role of statutory and non-statutory advocacy services among staff working in health and social care services, service users, carers and other stakeholders.
• Keeping accurate factual records relating to the service users and their cases, including keeping the case management database up to date.

Do you have what we are looking for?

• I have substantial practical experience working as a statutory advocate.
• I have completed the relevant National Qualification in Independent Advocacy (Level 3 or new Level 4)
• Completed or working towards additional specialist units e.g.  IMCA, DoLS, IMHA, ICAA, Independent Advocacy for CYP and Managing an Advocacy Service and Health Complaints
• Team management or supervisory experience of developing staff and/or volunteers, setting and
  reviewing SMART objectives, and taking immediate action to address performance or conduct issues.
• An understanding of case management systems and implementing safeguarding protocols.
• Have a good understanding of advocacy practice and principles of empowerment and knowledge of relevant legislation.
• Ability to manage a complex caseload covering a wide range of subjects ensuring independence and clarity of decision making.
• Ability to travel throughout the Locality, including travel when required to Hub Office

What will you receive?

You will have plenty of opportunities to enhance your abilities with the opportunity to make a real difference every day. In addition, you will have excellent development opportunities including funded training, career development and a range e-learning courses. You will also receive:  

• Salary of £23,906.01 - £27,282.80 per annum
• Contributory pension scheme
• Life assurance and employee assistance programme
• 25 days annual leave rising to 30 days plus bank holidays  
• Your "Rethink Day" - 1 day’s additional leave (pro rata) on your Birthday
• Eyecare vouchers
• Flexible working  

Don’t just change jobs, change lives!

In response to the current COVID 19 pandemic, we are flexible in the delivery of our advocacy and have maintained our work with our clients in the most pro-active and practical ways. Our Supervising Advocates are currently working from home and the Advocacy Teams are conducting their appointments with clients using a range of online software and telephone contact. Any face to face visits are carried out in line with Government Guidance and full PPE is worn by all staff, where necessary.

We have been working throughout and have ensured that our clients receive the best possible support and service in spite of the practical restrictions.

Just a couple of final things,

We welcome applications from everyone, applicants with lived experience, those who are Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer/Questioning+ (LGBTQ+), people with a disability, or those from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) backgrounds are actively encouraged to apply. We are proud to have also been awarded Disability Confident employer status. We have an ambition of becoming an anti-racist organisation and we recognise there is more to do in ensuring our recruitment is fair and inclusive, which is why we are recruiting new roles in helping us to achieve this. Please be mindful that we may need to close adverts early if we receive a high volume of applications, we therefore encourage you to apply as soon as possible. If a shortened closing date has a significant impact on your ability to apply, please let us know.

Would you like to work for a leading mental health charity?

Do you want a rewarding career where you can really make a difference?

If yes, join us here at Rethink Mental Illness where we have an exciting opportunity for a Statutory Advocate to join our friendly inspirational Devon Advocacy Team. Your role would be a permanent position working part time, 4 days per week (28 hours) based in Dawlish. Some home working would also be required.

Who are we?

Rethink Mental Illness is a leading charity provider of mental health services in England. We support thousands of people through our groups, services, policy, campaigns, advice and information. Rethink Advocacy is part of the same charity, though we work across a range of disciplines in addition mental health. We specialise in many different types of advocacy, providing services in a range of settings across the country such as hospitals, secure units and care homes.

In everything we do, we seek to demonstrate our values: Passion, Commitment, Openness, Hope, Expertise and Understanding. If these values resonate with you, we would love to hear from you.

What do we do in at our service?

Here in Devon we provide two statutory advocacy contracts.

The first provides Independent Mental Health Advocacy (IMHA) in Langdon Secure Hospital, Dawlish. The other provides IMHA, Care Act and Independent Health Complaints Advocacy across Devon and Torbay. During the past year we have had to adapt to attending a lot of meetings remotely. Where face to face work has continued, we have adhered to strict rules in order to maintain a Covid safe environment for our staff and clients.

What would you be doing?

You will be working across the two contracts, on site at Langdon for two days per week and travelling across Devon and Torbay for the remaining time. Some of the Devon and Torbay work is still remote at present but we hope this will change in the not too distant future. In addtiton, you will be:

• Providing a high quality, responsive and effective advocacy service in accordance with the service specification, contract and legislative timescales.
• Ensuring that individuals understand and can exercise their rights; supporting people to access information, to understand better what is happening, what is planned, and the options available to them to make better informed decisions and be more involved in their care and support.
• Acting on allocated referrals in accordance with the service standards and engagement protocols, communicating with referrers as required in order to ensure the client’s rights under the relevant act are observed.
• Representing patients’ interests when they are not able to do so themselves, including working within a best-interests framework for any eligible patient who lacks the mental capacity to instruct the advocate
• Keeping accurate factual records relating to the service users and their cases, including keeping the case management database up to date.

Do you have what we are looking for?

• Completed, working towards, or willing to work towards The National Qualification in Independent Advocacy (Level 3 or new Level 4)
• Completed, working towards, or willing to work towards additional specialist units: IMCA, DoLS, IMHA, ICAA.
• Experience of working in one or more of the following specialist areas: learning disabilities; mental capacity; mental health; older people; physical disabilities; sensory impairment; substance misuse.
• A good understanding of advocacy practice and principles of empowerment and knowledge of relevant legislation
• Ability to respect and promote a person’s right to make informed choices and decisions without influence
• Ability to manage a complex caseload covering a wide range of subjects ensuring independence and clarity of decision making.
• Ability to support clients who may have a range of communication and other needs.
• Ability to collate information and write formal reports to a high professional standard.
• Ability to travel throughout the locality.

What will you receive?

You will receive the opportunity to make a real difference every day. This will be made possible due to our excellent career development opportunities including funded face to face training, and a range of online e-learning courses.

You will also receive:

• Salary of £21,703.54 to 23,906.01 pro rata  
• Contributory pension scheme
• Life assurance and employee assistance programme
• 25 days annual leave rising to 30 days plus bank holidays  
• Your "Rethink Day" - 1 day’s additional leave (pro rata) on your Birthday
• Eyecare vouchers
• Flexible working  

Don’t just change jobs, change lives!

Just a couple of final things,

We welcome applications from everyone, applicants with lived experience, those who are Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer/Questioning+ (LGBTQ+), people with a disability, or those from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) backgrounds are actively encouraged to apply. We are proud to have also been awarded Disability Confident employer status. We have an ambition of becoming an anti-racist organisation and we recognise there is more to do in ensuring our recruitment is fair and inclusive, which is why we are recruiting new roles in helping us to achieve this. Please be mindful that we may need to close adverts early if we receive a high volume of applications, we therefore encourage you to apply as soon as possible. If a shortened closing date has a significant impact on your ability to apply, please let us know.

About The Advocacy Project

We help marginalised and vulnerable people make effective choices about what happens in their lives. We also support them to speak up and help improve important services we all need. We want to make sure people across all age and care groups – including learning disability and mental health – can:

• voice their concerns

• understand their rights

• make effective choices about what happens in their lives

We do this through advocacy services which support people individually, and user involvement projects that help organisations improve the services they offer.

About the role

The post-holder will lead a team of advocates working with adults and young people across NHS and private hospitals and the local community.

You will be required to provide line management support, be the point of contact for our stakeholders and ensure high quality delivery of our advocacy contracts.

Key responsibilities

• Lead the delivery of assigned advocacy services actively encouraging your team to contribute to service planning, quality improvement and development.

• Ensure the team provides instructed and non-instructed advocacy and signposting, working to the advocacy empowerment cycle and actively promoting self-advocacy throughout all work with service users where practicable.

• Ensure the team capture high quality advocacy notes, outcomes information and other evidence into the Case Management System in a timely manner.

• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of new legislation and reports and current trends and issues in mental health, mental capacity, care act, and health and social care legislation, local and national policy relating to people with mental health issues and disseminate across your team.

• Ensure quality standards are achieved by implementing operational policies and procedures to maintain professional and consistent advocacy services.

• Ensure contracts are delivered within budget, to agreed key performance indicators, case work standards and monitoring requirements, eg producing reports including quarterly monitoring reports.

• Lead on raising awareness of the advocacy service to service users and potential referrers.

• Ensure referrals are allocated efficiently, appropriately and within the requirements of the contract.

• Provide support and supervision to your staff team including professional development, appraisals, team meetings and work review meetings, and organisational activities such as CPD lectures and staff briefings.

  General responsibilities

• Participate in team meetings and training (and make sure your staff to attend).

• Keep to our policies, including health & safety, and risk regulations.

• Work to our mission, vision, and values.

• Carry out other projects and tasks as needed.

• Participate in personal, team and organisational development.

• Contribute to monitoring reports.

Person specification

Essential

• Experience of delivering advocacy.

• Achieved qualification in advocacy.

• Proven leadership ability and strong people management skills.

• Experience of managing contracts and delivering advocacy services.

• Understanding of statutory and non-statutory advocacy.

• Sound knowledge of current issues in health and social care policy, practice and legislation.

• Exceptional stakeholder management abilities with experience of building effective relationships with ranging commissioners, partners, service users and colleagues.

• Excellent communications (written and verbal) and interpersonal skills. Effective in working with a wide variety of stakeholders ranging from trustees to service users and employees.

• Commitment to working within The Advocacy Project code of conduct, equalities and safeguarding policies.

• Ability to work as part of a team and on your own initiative, to plan and prioritise your own workload.

• Willingness to promote The Advocacy Project and the mental health service in line with our mission, vision and values.

Desirable

Achieved qualification in advocacy management

Benefits of working for us

We’re committed to providing an empowering, flexible and supportive working environment for all our staff.

Our employee benefits include 30 days annual leave (including up to 3 days between Christmas and New Year), participation in a pension scheme with 6% employer contribution, access to a free confidential counselling service, and an interest-free travel/bike loan.

All our staff are supported to learn and develop in a variety of ways, including a monthly lecture series where we invite sector experts to talk to our staff on topical issues.

We are a Disability Confident and Mindful Employer.

Would you like to work for a leading mental health charity?

Do you want a rewarding career where you can really make a difference?

If yes, join us here at Rethink Mental Illness.

We have an exciting opportunity for 2 Statutory Advocates to join our inspiring and friendly Essex Advocacy team. Your role will be a permanent position working full time, 35 hours per week based in the community.

Our Essex Advocacy service provides specialist advocacy services as appropriate across a range of disciplines including, IMCA, DOLS, Children & Young People’s Advocacy, RPR, IMHA, Care Act and Independent Health complaints. We provide a range of statutory (instructed or non-instructed) and non-statutory advocacy support in secure units, hospitals, care settings or in the community.

Who are we?

We’re Rethink Mental Illness, a leading charity provider of mental health services in England. We support thousands of people through our groups, services, policy, campaigns and advice and information. Our work supports us in delivering on our mission: “A better life for everyone severely affected by mental illness.”

In everything we do, we seek to demonstrate our values: Passion, Commitment, Openness, Hope, Expertise and Understanding. If these values resonate with you, we would love to hear from you.

What will you be doing?

• Providing a high quality, responsive and effective advocacy service in accordance with the service specification, contract and legislative timescales.
• Ensuring that individuals understand and can exercise their rights; supporting people to access information, to understand better what is happening, what is planned, and the options available to them to make better informed decisions and be more involved in their care and support.
• Acting on allocated referrals in accordance with the service standards and engagement protocols, communicating with referrers as required in order to ensure the client’s rights under the relevant act are observed.
• Representing patients’ interests when they are not able to do so themselves, including working within a best interests framework for any eligible patient who lacks the mental capacity to instruct the advocate
• Keeping accurate factual records relating to the service users and their cases, including keeping the case management database up-to-date.

Do you have what we are looking for?

• Completed or am working towards National Qualification in Independent Advocacy (Level 3 or new Level 4)
• Completed or working towards additional specialist units: IMCA, DoLS , IMHA, CYP, ICAA.
• Experience of working in one or more of the following specialist areas: learning disabilities; mental health/capacity; older people; physical disabilities; sensory impairment; children & young people; substance misuse; NHS Complaints.
• A good understanding of advocacy practice and principles of empowerment and knowledge of relevant legislation
• Ability to respect and promote a person’s right to make informed choices and decisions without influence
• Ability to manage a complex caseload covering a wide range of subjects ensuring independence and clarity of decision making.
• Ability to support clients who may have a range of particular communication and other needs.
• Ability to collate information and write formal reports to a high professional standard.
• Ability to travel throughout the Locality, including travel when required to Hub Office

What will you receive?

You will have plenty of opportunities to enhance your abilities with the opportunity to make a real difference every day. In addition, you will have excellent development opportunities including funded training, career development and a range e-learning courses. You will also receive:  

• Salary of £21,703.54 to £23,906.01 per annum
• Contributory pension scheme
• Life assurance and employee assistance programme
• 25 days annual leave rising to 30 days plus bank holidays  
• Your "Rethink Day" - 1 day’s additional leave (pro rata) on your Birthday
• Eyecare vouchers
• Flexible working  

Don’t just change jobs, change lives!

Just a couple of final things,

We welcome applications from everyone, applicants with lived experience, those who are Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer/Questioning+ (LGBTQ+), people with a disability, or those from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) backgrounds are actively encouraged to apply. We are proud to have also been awarded Disability Confident employer status. We have an ambition of becoming an anti-racist organisation and we recognise there is more to do in ensuring our recruitment is fair and inclusive, which is why we are recruiting new roles in helping us to achieve this. Please be mindful that we may need to close adverts early if we receive a high volume of applications, we therefore encourage you to apply as soon as possible. If a shortened closing date has a significant impact on your ability to apply, please let us know.

Do you work tirelessly to ensure that your clients receive the best possible outcomes? Are you passionate about collaborating with partners to provide a trauma-informed approach to your clients? This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a new project providing an enhanced support service to women who have experienced complex trauma.

You will work collaboratively with partner agencies to provide a cohesive pathway of psychologically informed support services.

The purpose of this role is to deliver in-depth advocacy, advice and support to a caseload of women who have multiple intersecting needs including a significant history of trauma, mental ill health and/or a diagnosis of personality disorder. Historically other services may have struggled to engage with these women and this project works to changes these systems.

The role will include fantastic opportunities for joint working with the NHS, including being part of a team with psychologists in the NHS, including attending group consultations where a case formulation is developed, and attending training, reflective practice and group clinical supervision with psychology staff. You will also receive individual clinical supervision through Women in Prison.

We actively encourage applications from women from a variety of backgrounds, and with a range of skills and experiences. We are particularly interested to hear from Black, Asian and minoritised women who have personal experience of the criminal justice system. The role is only open to women, in accordance with the sex-based exemptions of the Equality Act 2010 pursuant to Schedule 9, Part 1.

Location: Waltham Forest
Salary: £29,500 - £32,000
Hours: 37.5 hours per week 
Contract: Fixed Term until August 2021 possible extension to January 2022
Vacancy Reference: SWA3050

Closing Date: 15th March
Interview Date: 19th March 

Come and join us at an innovative, exciting, grassroots charity working across London! Solace Women’s Aid works to an end the harm done through domestic and sexual violence to all survivors, and in particular women and children. Our work is holistic and empowering, working alongside survivors to achieve independent lives free from abuse.

You will be joining a team of committed and inspiring individuals whose dedication has saved the lives of thousands of women, men and children in the capital. We are looking for friendly and diligent individuals to join our services and help us make a difference.

About the Service

Waltham Forest Solace Advocacy and Support Service (SASS) is a team made up of IDVAs, caseworkers, group workers and therapists.  We work with all levels of risk and work closely with our partner agencies to ensure victim/survivors of domestic violence receive a good standard of service.

About the Role

We are looking for a Senior IRIS Advocate Educator to provide support and training for health professionals on understanding and responding to domestic violence and abuse. You will manage a caseload of victim/survivors of domestic violence; you will manage their risk and needs and advocate on their behalf with external agencies. You will also line manage the IRIS AE and lead on the service delivery of the IRIS service in Waltham Forest.

About You

You will have a passion for working with victim/survivors and will need a thorough understanding of domestic abuse and its impact on women and their children, as well as experience of providing emotional and practical support and strong casework management skills.

You will have the skills to provide effective crisis intervention, carry out risk assessments, safety planning, assessment of needs and individual support planning. You should have demonstrable experience of working in an IDVA or similar position with this or a similar client group.
You will also have experience of line managing staff or volunteers

In return, we offer great employee benefits including three per cent employer pension contribution, generous holiday entitlement and a focus on learning and development.

Southall Black Sisters (SBS) an advice, advocacy and campaigning centre for black and minority women (BME), currently has a vacancy for: 

FULL TIME DOMESTIC VIOLENCE TRAINEE ADVOCATE 

Salary range £19,634 to £23,944 (incl. OLW) per annum depending on experience 

This front-line post is normally based at our centre in Southall. However, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, we have allowed some flexibility and remote working, but this is a temporary measure only and is constantly under review to take account of the needs of our users and guidance on health and safety matters.

Ability to speak fluently a South Asian language essential (Punjabi or Hindi or Urdu preferred) 

This role will suit someone who seeks to develop into an SBS advocate and has some of the skill sets in the job description and seeks to acquire new skills. You will receive regular training and be closely supervised to:

• provide high quality and comprehensive advice, information, and practical advocacy support relating to gender-based violence against BME women and children
• promote the participation and engagement of service users with SBS holistic services 
• promote the aims and objectives of SBS as a specialist organisation for BME women and children 

In light of the nature and context of the work of SBS, the organisation considers that the candidate’s race and gender (BME) to be an occupational requirement in accordance with Para 1, Schedule 9, of the Equality Act 2010 

Deadline for applications Friday 12th March 2021 by 5pm 

To apply, download an Application Pack 

Do you want to advocate for a just and compassionate world where all people can access their rights and achieve their full potential? Are you passionate to help amplify the voice of people with disabilities who live in some of the world’s poorest communities?

CBM UK, part of the CBM Global Disability Inclusion Federation, is looking for two new exciting roles to join our Influencing team as part of a strategy to further increase our impact. The Head of Advocacy and Influencing will drive our advocacy and influencing strategies and build support for our work amongst target stakeholders and decision makers, in support of our commitment to promoting the rights of people with disabilities in the world’s poorest communities. We are seeking a confident and experienced influencer with a track record of impactful advocacy and a keen interest in strategic communications. The Research and Advocacy Senior Officer will support CBM UK’s evidence and learning, advocacy and influencing work. We are seeking an excellent writer with strong research skills and a keen interest in strategic communications, who can work across teams within CBM UK and Global to ensure evidence is captured, learnt from and shared.

CBM UK is actively committed to encouraging and promoting a positive and diverse organisation. We welcome applications from all individuals and particularly encourage people with disabilities to apply.

CBM UK offers competitive salary packaging, flexible working conditions and professional development opportunities. Full information can be obtained from our website.

This is an excellent opportunity if you wish to start a career in advocacy or healthcare policy.

Job title: Advocacy officer

Location:Flexible, with frequent travel to Worcester (all staff currently working from home due the pandemic).

Reports to:Patient Advocacy Manager

When applying, please also read the person specification, which can be found in the job description which is downloadable on our website vacancies section.

Who we are and what we do

In 1969, a group of parents whose children had been diagnosed with leukaemia came together to create a support network. Now over 50 years later, we continue their work in providing information and support to anybody affected by leukaemia and other blood cancer types. 

How do we do this? We have a wide-range of services aimed at patients and their loved ones from diagnosis and beyond. 

Our support services range from nurse-led helplines, support groups and free-of-charge medical information to access to paid counselling, grants for those feeling the financial strain of a diagnosis and providing buddies so people always have somebody to talk to who have experienced something similar to them. We encourage you to have a read of our website and find out all the ways we support from diagnosis and beyond. 

Crucial to our work is raising awareness of leukaemia as a blood cancer and the importance for early diagnosis. Leukaemia can be difficult to spot as the symptoms are similar to many other common conditions. Unfortunately, most people are not aware of the signs of leukaemia and this leads to diagnosis being delayed, which can worsen outcomes for patients. 

As well as working to educate the general public through our #SpotLeukaemia campaign, we are working closely with our colleagues working in front line medical services to ensure they have the most up-to-date information on diagnosing leukaemia. We know that by raising awareness and working to educate health care professionals, we can save lives and improve outcomes. 

Overview of duties and responsibilities

The Patient Advocacy Manger and Chief Executive Officer will offer full training to the successful candidate.

• Influence policy which impacts the lives of people affected by blood cancer
• Undertake casework on behalf of individual patients, their families and/or in conjunction with other relevant professionals (e.g. social worker, benefits adviser, nurse).
• Plan and implement Leukaemia Care policy initiatives which underpin the strategic plan
• Work with the Campaigns Officer to identify issues that require campaigning activities
• Project manage the work relating to access to medicines, including NICE appraisals and health technology assessments
• Provide administrative support to the Patient Advocacy Manager
• Maintain and grow a database of policy makers, build relationships and identify policy advocates for blood cancers

Details on duties and reponsbilities

Policy

• Write articles on relevant policies for internal and external publications, both hard copy and digital.
• Attend external policy events and represent Leukaemia Care, at the request of the Patient Advocacy Manager.
• Assist the Patient Advocacy Manager to develop policy strategies.
• Draft briefings, policy and position statements on the issues affecting cancer patients and their carers, in general as well as specifically blood cancer patients.
• Review external policy documents from a variety of sources such as Cancer 52, the Cancer Campaigning Group etc.
• Assist the Patient Advocacy Manager to influence national, regional and international policy by representing the needs of patients and their carers in consultations, regulatory submissions and other policy initiatives.

Public affairs

• Developing and delivering written and oral briefings to Members of Parliament, peers, government officials and other decision makers on key policies and campaigns
• Actively networking and building constructive relationships with parliamentarians, political parties and NGO’s as relevant
• Provide analysis and insight on relevant legislation and policy guidance
• Planning and coordinating parliamentary events if required, coordinating and attend meetings with parliamentarians and stakeholder’s alongside senior staff.

Working with NICE (National Institute of Health and Care Excellence)

• To be aware of new and upcoming treatments for blood cancers which may be submitted for health technology appraisals.
• Develop relationships with health technology appraisal contacts in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
• To project manage the Leukaemia Care input into relevant health technology appraisals; identifying timescales and ensuring the deadlines are met, securing input from patients and medical professionals as necessary and drafting responses that are medically accurate and in line with Leukaemia Care’s policy.
• To gather information (e.g. patient surveys) about treatment side effects, patient compliance with treatment, and in general relating to consequences of diagnosis.

Advocacy Casework

• To provide a personalized, solution-based service resolving a specific issue that an individual is facing. These will be referred from the Leukaemia Care website and patient services team.
• To assist the Patient Advocacy Manager to support individual patients to secure access to appropriate treatment and support.
• To help patients understand their rights, options that are available, access further information and make informed decisions.
• Answer calls on the helpline as necessary, covering advocacy topics and providing wider cover for the helpline if needed.

Advocacy and Campaigns

• To work with the charity Videographer, Campaigns Officer and the Communications team to develop topical content – both in writing and video – to enable patients to understand their rights and options
• To work with the Patient Advocacy team to coordinate Leukaemia Care’s advisory panels (made up of patients and clinicians)
• To liaise with the Patient Services Manager and the Patient Advocacy team in identifying campaigning and advocacy issues presented by patients and carers.
• To identify issues that may require campaigning and work with the Campaigns Officer to research these issues.
• To work with the Communications Team to develop and manage content for the campaigns and advocacy pages of the Leukaemia Care website.
• To work with the Communications Team in developing content for the Leukaemia Matters magazine and other Leukaemia Care publications.

General

In addition to the specific duties and responsibilities outlined in this job description, all Leukaemia Care employees should be aware of their specific responsibilities towards the following:

• Adhere to all health and safety and fire regulations and to co-operate with the Charity in maintaining good standards of health and safety. 
• Uphold ethical and professional standards and not behave in a manner that is likely to bring the Charity into disrepute. 
• Promote and sustain a responsible attitude towards equal opportunities and diversity within the Charity.
• Demonstrate a commitment to ongoing learning and development and to participate in any training relevant to the role.

This job description is not exhaustive. It acts as a guide and may be amended to meet the changing requirements of the charity at any time after discussion with the post holder.

City Hearts was founded in 2005, beginning with a single home to help women with life controlling issues, shortly after we welcomed our first survivor of modern slavery. Since then, we have expanded across multiple regions and now provide accommodation and outreach support to hundreds of survivors of modern slavery every year, as well as continuing to house and support women with life controlling issues. In addition we have developed our About Face department which is aims to see crime free futures and violence reduction. We are passionate about restoring the lives of those we support, and it would not be possible without our dedicated team of staff and volunteers.

About Face is all about breaking the cycle of crime and seeing the lives of offenders turned around. As a an About Face Coordinator you will deliver a high quality service, constantly focused on achieving positive outcomes for every client through effective management, training and the development of the About Face team across the county of South Yorkshire, ensuring all clients have a person centered, trauma informed plan, and that contractor KPI’s are met in a timely fashion. 

RESPONSIBILITIES

• To manage a caseload of a small number of clients alongside overseeing the management of all SY client cases including referrals, person centered support plans, issue reports, and exits.

• To oversee line management of four operational regions across the county of South Yorkshire and some day to day management of the Forging Ahead programme.

• To manage day to day contact with South Yorkshire police and liaise with service manager and OPCCSY and VRU on all reports.

• To maintain and develop contacts with organisations and individuals regarding both Plan B Navigator program and Forging ahead in a professional manner - including but not limited to South Yorkshire police, OPCCSY, HMPPS, Home Office, youth offending and offender management agencies, local authorities, and medical professionals.

• To encourage the team to network and develop professional relationships with relevant organisation in the SY area. • To ensure all KPIS’s and funding is up to date and that client related issues are recorded and updated regularly and in a timely fashion.

• To manage internal reporting requirements including timely recording of data on to CRM system Zoho.

• The Coordination of staff including; induction, training, team meetings, volunteers, supervisions, rotas, holidays and absence cover.

• To work with the Safeguarding Lead to ensure that all staff are completing, updating and maintaining risk assessments for all clients and to advise and direct on complex safeguarding cases.

• Mentor staff through any complex situations, bringing the heart of City Hearts trauma informed approach and consulting with members of the management team when required.

• The continual development of self as a leader and commitment to develop the team to deliver high quality client service and care.

• Adhering to all internal procedures regarding City Hearts, the contract and any legislation.

• Be responsible for planning and to be scheduled onto the out of ours 'on call' rota