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We’re looking for someone to build missionally on the existing foundations of our youth project which has been running for around 8 years. You will be an important part of an innovative youth project, with opportunities for vibrant missional outreach, making use of our excellent facilities including a fully equipped youth centre (details are available in the accompanying booklet). Building on our excellent relationships with local primary and secondary schools you will have the opportunity to engage with hundreds of children and young people each week. As a Greenhouse Hub for the Church of England’s Greenhouse programme, St Peter’s uses The Missional Journey to develop new missional communities across the church and within the local area.
JOB DESCRIPTION
Overall responsibility of the job:
Duties will vary from week to week, but essentially responsibilities will include the following:
● Oversee all areas of ministry to the rising generation (0-18 year olds) within the church and local community, including holding the overall vision of vibrant missional outreach, making innovative use of our excellent facilities.
● Manage and support our youth team including Pais Apprentices, Ministry Exchange Scheme students and volunteers.
● Engage with local secondary and primary schools through assemblies, Youth Alpha sessions and pastoral visits, building on strong existing relationships.
● Oversee the rising generation budget and engage with the
fundraising team to seek funding opportunities to enable an excellent youth provision.
● Undertake any other duties that may reasonably be requested by the Rector.
General Duties:
● Find and initiate innovative ways of engaging with children, young people and their families both within the local community and those already engaged with church.
● Work with the Rector, PCC and rising generation team in growing the St Peter’s vision and strategy for reaching children and young people in our local community and helping them grow as followers of Jesus.
● Plan and run a range of different activities and projects for children and young people in the St Peter’s Community and Youth Hub.
● Use Churchsuite to maintain accurate records of children and young people who participate in youth activities.
● Work with our Activate and Scripture Union Sports Minister to integrate sports and activities into the rising generation programme. Also work alongside our mission partners which include PAIS, Guildford Diocese Ministry Exchange Scheme and Scripture Union.
Schools Work
● Building on our excellent relationships with local schools, visit local primary and secondary schools regularly and lead acts of worship within them, liasing with the Rector and the schools directly.
● Lead lunchtime and/or after school activities in schools, including expanding the use of our bespoke Youth Alpha materials.
● Assist in providing chaplaincy as requested within the local schools and seek opportunities to grow mission.
● Work collaboratively with the Children’s and Youth Team, including Pais Apprentices and Guildford Diocese Ministry Exchange Scheme team members when applicable.
Safeguarding
● Oversee the Children’s and Youth Ministry in a way that follows National Safeguarding Guidelines.
● Respond effectively and appropriately to any safeguarding concerns, as they arise, following the safeguarding protocol.
● Build and maintain consistent appropriate relationships with children and young people in person (Employed staff or volunteer team members must not engage in exclusive or romantic relationships with young people under the age of 18 or vulnerable adults as this is against the law and could result in prosecution).
Our Christian culture
We believe that prayer and discernment are fundamental to St Peter’s achieving its mission of restoring relationships and transforming lives. As a staff member you are expected to:
- Actively seek to build positive relationships within the staff team and with the local community
- Attend meetings involving prayer and worship
- Be committed to SPWM’s Mission, Values and Beliefs and to be actively working and living in accordance with our Christian beliefs.
- Maintain your own spiritual development, discover your gifts/callings and grow in discipleship.
- Live out Christian values as you represent SPWM externally.
Training and Development
As a church we are committed to the appropriate development of every team member. Funding will be provided for appropriate training and development.
Application Details
This role carries a Genuine Occupational Requirement (GOR) that the successful applicant is a committed Christian and part of the church family.
Person Specification
Key Skills
- Leadership qualities with the ability to manage a team and work with volunteer leaders
- Clear and effective communicator with people of varying ages and in particular children, young people and parents
- Ability to work missionally within the local community
- Ability to develop creative ideas for engaging with children and young people
- Developed organisational skills
- The ability to work using own initiative when required, as well as to work with a team
- Good pastoral skills with the ability to relate easily and sensitively to a wide range of different people
- Ability to show resilience and robustness when dealing with challenges and maintain a positive attitude to problem solving.
- Ability to troubleshoot in high pressure situations.
- Computer literate and able to engage with new technologies.
- Ability to work in sympathy with the aims and ethos of the Church of England.
Personal attributes
- A vibrant faith and love of Jesus which you are excited about sharing
- Reliability
- Flexibility
- Willingness to receive feedback and seek to learn from it
- Honesty and integrity
- Ability to deal sensitively with confidential information
Registered Charity
6 - 10
St Peter's is an Anglican Church seeking to transform the local community in West Molesey.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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Managing Director of Education and Wellbeing
Contract – Permanent
Hours - 35 hours per week
Salary – Circa £75,000 per annum
Location - Coram Campus, Bloomsbury, with occasional UK travel and hybrid working as agreed
Coram is the first and longest continuing children’s charity, originally The Foundling Hospital, helping vulnerable children and young people since 1739. Today, a dynamic group of organisations, Coram now helps more than one million children, young people, families and professionals every year through direct services, curriculum tools, and digital advice.
Coram is the largest charity provider of Personal, Social, Health and Economic education from infancy to independence. Supported by a distributed network of delivery partners across the country, Coram SCARF curriculum supports teachers across 2800 schools. Coram Beanstalk is the original volunteer reading help charity supporting children to become fluent readers with face-to-face volunteer support in primary schools. Coram Kidscape provides targeted support to schools, parents and children who are experiencing bullying whilst Coram Leap Confronting Conflict provides place based approaches to building the resilience of young people in navigating conflict. Together with Coram Shakespeare Schools Foundation, providing the largest youth drama festival, they work to realise our strategic goal to enable children to develop the skills they need for life no matter where they live.
About the role
Working directly with the Chief Executive as a member of the Senior Management Team of Coram, the Managing Director of Education and Wellbeing provides direct and matrix management and leadership across these different streams of our work with schools and teachers.
In this role you will drive partnership, business development and income to extend the reach, relevance and results for children. You will work to build and diversify subscription, direct purchase, international, statutory and commercial income streams integrating the offers and driving synergies between the programmes in the Centre. Included in this is the development of the voice of children in relevant areas of policy, particularly seeking to build social relational and critical thinking skills.
You will seek to represent Coram to advance public understanding and the development of policy and practice as it affects children and young people. You will grow Coram’s share of voice in the education arena, ensuring that policy positions, consultation responses and public communications remain consistent.
This senior role is an important opportunity for a for an established charity education leader with an entrepreneurial approach and programmatic leadership skills including income generation, built on extensive policy and systems knowledge, to impact through existing and new programmes to change the prospects of the next generation.
The successful candidate will have a strong business focus, with senior experience of identifying, responding to and delivering new business opportunities, product development / sales and fundraising. This, together with, experience of managing multiple and distributed teams whilst maintaining both quality assurance of programmes and building engagement.
You will be able to work individually, in a team and across the organisation. Strong ability to lead and motivate others, partnership building skills and knowledge, experience and commitment to improving lives of children are essential.
Please note: This is a full-time role, office based in central London; hybrid working is supported but this post is not offered for job share or for majority home working. It requires the ability to travel in the UK on business occasionally and for flexibility in attending occasional breakfast or evening events
To apply for this role, please visit the Coram website to complete an application. Please note CV’S alone will not be accepted.
Closing date: 29th June 2026 at 9am
Interview date (at Coram Campus, Bloomsbury): Thursday 2nd July 2026
Coram is an equal opportunities employer and we believe a diverse workforce enables us to improve the services to the children and families we help. We are genuinely committed to encouraging candidates from all sections of the community we seek to support. This includes those from global majority ethnic backgrounds, those that identify as LGBQT+, those with disabilities, those with lived experience of care and those from other groups who are underrepresented at Coram.
We are committed to the safeguarding of children and where appropriate will require the successful applicant to undertake a check from the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Registered Charity No. 312278.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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Neo-Natal Support Worker
£24,000 pa + Company Car (with an approx. retail value of £23,000-26,000, taxable benefit in kind of £6-£8K) and other excellent benefits
This role covers the South West of London, including Chelsea & Westminster catchment area.
Rainbow Trust Children’s Charity is going through an exciting time where we are growing, with the aim of reaching more families in need.
About the role:
This Best Companies Top 100 mid-sized organisation and Top 20 Charity is looking to appoint a Neonatal Support Worker (35 hours, 5 days per week) as part of a developing programme delivering high quality wrap-around care and support to families with a baby receiving treatment on the Neonatal Intensive Care units within the London & South East region, working collaboratively with the multi-disciplinary team supporting the families.
Reporting to the Family Support Manager of the London & South East Care Team and working in partnership with health, education and social care professionals, you will take responsibility for providing needs-led emotional, social and practical support to families where a child/young person has a life threatening or terminal illness. You will enjoy responsibility for managing your own schedule, remaining flexible to the needs of the families on your caseload.
Having worked in a demanding and emotional environment you have a genuine interest in building supportive relationships and helping people; and having provided bereavement support to families, you understand processes of grief, loss and change - and how best to help others deal with its impact.
What we’re looking for:
· An experienced child health, education or social care professional - applications will be particularly welcome from those who have worked in a special care baby unit/community environment and those with a recognised qualification in health or social care.
· A warm, inclusive approach to achieving goals quickly and correctly
· Practiced in child protection, information sharing and the rules around data protection - you lead by example, drawing on your own professional experience and working within established guidelines
· Practical and people-oriented - you will thrive working at a fast pace whilst maintaining accuracy and be a confident user of IT (including MSOffice)
· A persuasive and open communicator - you will work collaboratively with your team and volunteers to ensure delivery of a high-quality service and support fundraising colleagues by writing case studies and family updates
· A practical knowledge of diversity issues affecting children, young people and their families – aware that being responsive to others needs and concerns, is essential.
What we offer:
We are proud to be a Best Companies Two-Star rated organisation, an outstanding place to work! As a Top 10 Charity, we have a range of fantastic benefits that we offer our employees, including:
• Control over your own schedule, based on the needs of families on your caseload, to balance home and working life
• Company car for front line care posts (car P11D value of £23,000-26,000, taxable benefit in kind of £6-£8k)
• Pension scheme where we contribute 5% of your salary and you contribute at least 3%
• 25 days of annual leave plus public holidays – rising to 26 days after 1 year, 27 days after 5 years and 30 days after 11 years, with an additional 5 years to use in your 10th or 20th year of service (pro rata for part time)
• The option to buy/sell annual leave, as well as additional leave for your birthday, wedding/civil ceremony and an extra half day off for Christmas shopping
• Time off in Lieu
• Family friendly policies, focused on employee wellbeing, and an active cross-organisational wellbeing group running a number of initiatives throughout the year
• Employee Assistance Programme with access to remote GP, counselling, physiotherapy, resources to support your mental health and financial wellbeing, as well as a 24/7 helpline via Help@Hand
• Access to the Blue Light Card Scheme, and other rewards and discounts
• Bike to work, season ticket loan and payroll giving schemes
• A recommend a friend recruitment bonus scheme
• Robust training and development programmes to support your learning and growth.
If you’d like to find out more about these benefits and working with us, please visit our why work with us page on our website.
More information about us and our recruitment process can be found in our Candidate Pack on our website.
Development opportunities:
As part of our learning and development Anne Harris Skills Development Programme, we aim to provide a high level of training and development opportunities for all staff, so you are able to perform to the best of your ability, achieve individual and team objectives aligned to Rainbow Trusts strategic plan, supporting staff to be their best and feel a valued member of a high performing organisation.
Our Family Support Teams are given the opportunity to complete a number of diverse training courses in their first 12 months, including but not limited to: Mental Health First Aid, Makaton, introduction to play, drawing and talking training.
The programme aims to provide a building block for you to individually tailor your own learning and development needs.
About us:
Rainbow Trust Children’s Charity enables families who have a child with a life-threatening or terminal illness to make the most of time together, providing expert, practical and emotional support, where they need it for as long as it is needed. For families living with childhood illness, time is everything. Right now, there are too many families coping alone with no support, no time to think, no time to make memories and no time for each other. We believe that no family should go through this alone, so we are here to change that.
How to apply:
Please visit our website and apply online.
Please disclose on your application form if you have used AI for any part of your job application.
Early application is encouraged as we will review applications throughout the advertising period and reserve the right to close the advert early.
Additional information:
Interviews will take place at our London & South East Care Team office with the dates to be confirmed. We will only contact those applicants who have been successful. If you require any adjustments during the interview process, please let us know.
There will be a requirement for flexible working and a full current driver’s licence to accommodate team and family need. An enhanced DBS disclosure will be required for this post.
Rainbow Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all employees to share this commitment.
Rainbow Trust is an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from all backgrounds.
