Please note that we are open to homeworking but the role will require regular travel to London. 

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced and enthusiastic Health and Safety Officer to join our expanding Facilities team.

Dogs Trust is the largest dog welfare charity in the UK with a nationwide network of rehoming centres and charity shops. Last year, Dogs Trust centres cared for over 14,000 dogs; we never put a healthy dog down.

We are seeking a Health & Safety Officer to be responsible with the development and maintenance of high standards in Health & Safety policy and practice throughout Dogs Trust. As the successful candidate, you will conduct site visits, carrying out risk assessments and audits, ensuring timely implementation of improvement measures. You will also be responsible with the H&S reporting system (Info Exchange), providing advice across departments and helping with any practical difficulties.

Having experience in a previous hands-on facilities role, you will have working knowledge of health and safety legislation and good practice. The successful candidate will need to be self-motivated, with a flexible but methodical approach to work and happy to work in a busy team environment. You should have excellent communication skills, along with good organisational and interpersonal skills and competent in Microsoft Office software.

A commitment to the aims and objectives of Dogs Trust, willingness to travel and a full manual driving licence are essential.

2 x Hostel Night Duty Supervisor (BLACKPOOL)

£9.30 per hour (zero hours)

The Ashley Foundation is a large homelessness charity and offers accommodation with support to vulnerable single homeless people.  We are looking to appoint two Night Duty Supervisors on a zero hours contract to work nights, weekends and bank holidays across our 3 hostels in Blackpool. 

Ideally you will have experience in working with vulnerable people. You will have a good understanding of the support needs of homeless people, be non-judgemental in your approach and have good people skills.  You will be willing to go the extra mile and be self-motivated.  You will be able to work alone and under your own initiative. You will be flexible in your approach to work and able to cover shifts at short notice. 

Come and join one of our knowledgeable, supportive, professional and friendly team providing holistic housing support to single vulnerable persons in need.  You will receive excellent training, regular supervision and plenty of development opportunities together with a competitive salary and good terms and conditions.

Please supply a current CV with your application

It would be preferable that you are a driver with access to a vehicle for work purposes.

Closing date: Wednesday 15th December 2020 @ 12 Noon

Senior Housing Services Officer

Role Purpose:

To deliver a responsive customer focused Housing Management service to tenants and prospective tenants of the Association. To supervise The Neighbourhood Officer, the Income & Tenancy Sustainment Officer and to ensure performance and service delivery meets our standards.

Key accountabilities

• Income Collection
• Complaint handling
• Tenancy & Lease Management to ensure statutory and contractual obligations are met
• External Liaison to promote Housing Management Service
• Producing various mangement reports
• Managing voids & lettings
• Ensure the Service Delivery is customer focused
• Line management expereince/ Staff supervision
• Estate Management & Performance Monitoring
• Anti-social behaviour management

Core Comptetencies: 

• Result focus
• Customer Orientation
• Effective communication
• Teamwork
• Planning & Organisation
• Decision Making & Initiative
• Influencing & Negotiating
• Leadership

Please see attached the full job description for more information.

The Neighbourhood Officer’s core role is to develop and maintain relationships with our customers, providing tenancy management services and acting as the named point of contact for a patch of properties The Neighbourhood Officer acts as an important interface with customers, and also works as part of a team providing overall Housing Management functions.
The Neighbourhood Officer has a key responsibility in ensuring that our customers receive a high quality service, are kept well informed, and have a relationship with the organisation that is based on trust and mutual respect. The Neighbourhood Officer is supported in this role by a team of specialist colleagues.

Specific Accountabilities and Performance Standards:

• Delivers excellent customer service and achieves high levels of customer satisfaction
• Delivers an excellent service in relation to tenancy management, meeting performance targets as
  directed across all objectives
• Ensures empty properties are re-let promptly and that customers are guided and supported through the moving in and moving out processes
• Delivers a high standard of estate management
• Maximises the collection of rent and other charges
• Enables customers to engage with the organisation and influence how services and improvements are provided and delivered to consistently high standards
• To contribute to the effective running of the service and to participate in a culture of continuous improvement. To include offering support, guidance, encouragement and imparting knowledge to
  colleagues.
• Corporate Role

No job description can be entirely comprehensive and the job holder will be expected to carry out such other duties as may be required from time to time and are broadly consistent with the job description and status of the post within the organisation.

You must be able to show the following skills and abilities:

• Customer Focus
• Team work
• Make things happen
• Seek and evaluate information
• Assertive, professional behaviour
• Commercial and entrepreneurial
• Written communication

Please see attached the full job description for more information.

We have an exciting specialist role within the organisation, delivering the successful Housing First Model to some of the most vulnerable rough sleepers in the London Borough of Redbridge (Ilford, Essex).

SHP (Single Homeless Project) is one of London’s leading homelessness prevention charities and a dynamic and growing organisation changing 8,000 lives every year across London - from supporting people in crisis, to helping them take the final steps towards independence and employment.

Housing First is an innovative approach, proven to successfully support people with repeat histories of homelessness and who experience multiple disadvantages, into independent and stable accommodation.  Once housed, they are provided with the supportive services and connections to community-based support, so that they can sustain their housing and avoid returning to homelessness.

Your role as a Specialist Housing First Worker will require you to work alongside a wider team involving other Specialist Housing First Workers, Navigators and Managers, to ensure support is delivered to most the vulnerable rough sleepers in the Borough.  You will be responsible for managing a small caseload of up to 7 clients, providing them with one to one intensive support that will be offered within the client’s home as well as within the community.

The ideal candidate will be highly organised, proactive and adept at developing and maintaining relationships with internal and external stakeholders.Additionally, you will have an understanding of the core principles of the Housing First Model and work actively to ensure that these principles are at the heart of achieving positive outcomes for our clients. Along with a good working knowledge of London's private rented market and the current welfare system, you will also have a passion for supporting highly vulnerable adults with complex or multiple health needs.

If you want to be part of a high-performing service and are keen to shape as well as prevent rough sleeping in Redbridge, then we would like to hear from you.We also welcome applications from people with experience and transferable skills in areas of work such as, tenancy sustainment, floating support or support work within an accommodation based settings.

Closing date: 6th December 2020 (at Midnight)

Interviews to be held on: 11th December 2020

This post will require an Enhanced DBS check to be processed for the successful applicant.   

Our attractive benefits package includes:

• A salary increase after successfully completing six months.
• A 37.5 hour working week including flexible working hours (core hours are 10am – 4pm) in non-accommodation services
• 25 days annual leave, increasing annually to the maximum 30 days (plus paid Bank Holidays),
• A contributory pension scheme: SHP will contribute the equivalent of 5% of your annual salary
• Staff Health Cash Plan and discounts scheme
• Comprehensive and integrated training programme designed specifically to develop the skills and knowledge involved in our work

SHP is actively committed to equal opportunities and the promotion of diversity and inclusion, in all of our services and workplaces.  We are also Disability Confident Committed, a Stonewall Diversity Champion and IIP accredited.  In the London Homelessness Awards 2019 one of our Projects was commended for their work.

The Accommodation Officer is a new full-time post helping to set up and run an exciting new project providing stable safe accommodation for women made destitute by the asylum system, as well as facilitating our existing hosting scheme providing short term placements for men and women. The post is offered initially on an 18-month contract, but is likely to be renewable.  This is a rare opportunity to be part of a project as it begins and to shape its direction, and to make a tangible difference to the lives of people who would otherwise be street homeless or living in unsafe situations as a result of the asylum process.

JRS UK works with around 350 destitute asylum seekers in the London area, providing a range of services in a holistic model. JRS has been providing temporary accommodation through our hosting scheme ‘At Home’ since 2012, facilitating short term placements primarily with religious congregations, and we are now opening a new 10-bedroom house in Stockwell, South London (Emilie House) specifically for women in need of more stable housing.  The Accommodation Officer will work closely with the Accommodation Manager to set the new project up and then oversee all placements in both our hosting scheme and Emilie House. 

JRS works in a highly relational way, and the postholder will need to be able to form strong relationships with the people we support, who we call refugee friends. They will accompany the refugee friends that JRS houses or hosts and ensure that their holistic support needs are met whilst they are accommodated with us, engaging with staff in the destitution services and with legal advisors to facilitate a long term route out of destitution.

JRS UK is a Catholic organisation and our work is rooted in Catholic social teaching and imbued with the spirituality of the Jesuits. But we serve people of all faiths and none without proselytising or favour. Our staff and volunteer teams are diverse and include people from many different faiths, nationalities, and generational backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from people with personal experience of the asylum system.  

PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT COORDINATOR (HOUSING FIRST), OPPORTUNITY NOTTINGHAM, FRWK08 £21,150- £22,831, TEMPORARY TILL JUNE 2022, 37 HPW

Opportunity Nottingham is part of the National Fulfilling Lives Programme and is Big Lottery Funded until 2022. In Nottingham City, we deliver our work through a partnership of local agencies, of which Framework is the lead, and we exist to improve the lives of people with multiple and complex needs who may have had poor experiences of engaging with mainstream services. 

Beneficiaries of Opportunity Nottingham need to be experiencing at least three out of the following four complex needs:  homelessness, substance misuse, offending, and mental ill health. 

Housing First is an approach to housing clients with particular challenging housing need, seeking to provide good quality permanent housing to those who have been recurrently homeless and have been unsuccessful in supported accommodation. 

The model is in contrast to the ‘stepped approach’ to the provision of accommodation and grants a permanent tenancy at the outset rather than requiring tenants to succeed in other types of accommodation first. 

The main purpose of the job will be to coordinate intensive, person centered wrap around support for Opportunity Nottingham beneficiaries in Housing First tenancies.

The successful candidate will also work with beneficiaries to create Personal Development Plans and liaise with referring & partner provider agencies. This group of beneficiaries present challenges, therefore the team and its members need to be resilient, creative, flexible, patient, and persistent and, where required, assertive in their approach.

We are looking for a candidate who can demonstrate:

• Experience of working with vulnerable people, particularly those with multiple needs

• Understanding of partnership working with external agencies

• Understanding of the range of services available to vulnerable people

• Understanding of the issues faced by people who are affected by: homelessness, substance misuse, mental ill health, and offending

• Ability to accurately plan and record work with beneficiaries

• Commitment with tolerance and flexibility.

• Excellent communication, liaison and negotiation skills

Opportunity Nottingham has a diverse team and we positively encourage applications from all communities.

This post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service check

What we offer: Life Assurance, Pension (up to 4% matched by FHA), Enhanced Maternity, Paternity and Adoption Benefits, Additional Annual Leave Purchase Scheme, Employee Assistance Programme, Learning programmes tailored to suit different roles and services, Health Cash Plan.

Framework supports all employees to achieve a better work/life balance. Should you wish us to consider flexible working or job share as part of your application please state this on your application in the supporting statement section.

97% of the workforce in a recent staff survey said they were proud to work for Framework.

Framework is an Equal Opportunities Employer. Registered charity No: 1060941.

As a Disability Confident employer we warmly encourage job applications from people with disabilities. Framework is committed to offering opportunities to people from diverse communities. If you have specific requirements or adjustments please let us know if there is anything we can do to support your application

NO AGENCIES PLEASE.

Exciting Job opportunity for an ambitious self-starter: we are looking for a Fundraising and Partnerships Manager.

The National House Project takes a ground-breaking approach through its commitment to enabling young people leaving care to achieve successful independence. The Project was co-designed with young people and works on cooperative principles through which adults and young people leaving care work together to refurbish properties that become their homes. We would like the successful candidate to be passionate about our work, with an ability to engage the young people our work reaches.

The first Local House Project was set-up in 2015 in Stoke-on-Trent with funding from the Dept for Education (DfE). We are a rapidly growing organisation with plans to develop nationally. We have developed an ambitious strategy to grow our fundraising; independently from the DfE, over the next five years. This role will involve the establishment and development of a new fundraising team (1 WTE initially). As our first fundraiser, the successful candidate will need to support the wider team to understand how their day-to-day roles will help with the growth of fundraising income. Working closely with our CEO, you will play a crucial role in our team, managing and implementing the National House Project’s fundraising strategy and overseeing our fundraising activity.

We are looking for a dynamic and creative, target driven individual who will work with our team to identify, develop and ‘package’ tangible projects to fundraise against, to drive the development of our fundraising. The post holder will bring their experience, skills and enthusiasm and develop exciting new opportunities. Naturally entrepreneurial, you will be a self-starter and strong communicator, with the ability to build effective and long-term relationships both internally and externally. You will have proven experience of inspiring and motivating donors and fundraising partners, enabling them to maximise all fundraising activities and deliver great results.

The post covers a wide remit of fundraising activities including Major Giving, Corporate Supporters and grant giving Trust and Foundations. We are particularly interested in hearing from individuals with proven experience in securing four to six figure sums from major donor and/or corporate sources.  An understanding and appreciation of the importance of donor cultivation and stewardship is key.

The fundraising team will be supported by our administrative staff, and external fundraising and marketing & communications consultants initially, whilst we seek to embed our newly developed fundraising strategy. As the team grows, this new role offers exciting progression routes involving both line management and hands-on delivery across Major Giving, Corporate supporters and grant giving Trusts & Foundations. 

You will be based at the NHP office in Crewe a minimum of 2 days per week. While your remaining time will be flexible, you will be expected to travel to Local House Projects and attend meetings with donors and partners across the country on a regular basis.

Application is by CV and covering letter. There is no application form. In your letter, please tell us how you meet the person specification which can be found in the attached application pack.

The interview process will take place in two stages, with first stage interviews taking place via zoom on 14th December 2020. Face to face second stage interviews will then take place on 18th December 2020 at our Head Office in Crewe (if government covid-19 guidelines allow). Please make sure you are available on both dates.

OUR AIM

To provide the advice people need for the problems they face and to improve the policies and practices that affect peoples lives

OUR PRINCIPALS

The Citizens Advice Service provides free independent confidential and impartial advice to everyone on their rights and responsibilities.

Citizens Advice Bromsgrove and Redditch (CABR) is an independent registered charity covering the Bromsgrove and Redditch area.

We are a member of National Citizens Advice, the leading UK Advice Charity. The main areas we help our clients with are in debt, benefits, housing and employment and we offer information and advice to a large number of clients to a high, accredited standard of quality. We dealt with 5630 clients in 2019/20 and circa 20000 issues. The core areas are debt, benefits, employment and housing.

LOCATION

Based in Bromsgrove with some travel to key stakeholders within Bromsgrove and Redditch with some flexibility for home working

SALARY – circa £37000 per annum- 37 hours per week.

PERMANENT – FULL TIME

Reporting to the Trustee Board you have overall responsibility for the quality and delivery of advice provided by Bromsgrove and Redditch CA- ensuring we meet the standards required under the Performance and Quality Framework (PQF) and the objectives of the Strategic Business and Development Plan.

Your direct reports will be the CA Service Manager, Senior management team, Paid staff team and volunteers responsible for service delivery.

You will have specific responsibility for all external liaison and activity and will be a proven relationship builder who has exemplary interpersonal skills to strengthen our reputation.

Our network includes National CA, Bromsgrove District Council, Redditch Borough Council, other funders and stakeholders and the local community,

You will have a proven track record of maintaining and developing funding streams to enable continued support for our core service along with specialist service delivery to meet local needs.

You will ideally have managed or been a key influencer on a significant transformation project.

COVID19 has had a profound impact on the delivery of our advice service. Supported by a committed staff and volunteer team we have mobilised home working to continue helping local people in need by phone and email during this period.

Undoubtedly the landscape for local charities has dramatically changed and we are looking for a dynamic and innovative leader who can navigate us through the next steps in offering an excellent service to our clients.

If you have a passion to serve your local community and would wish to lead this great organisation in our next chapter in offering excellent service to our clients,then in the first instance please click on the 'Apply' button to  submit your CV with a covering letter on how you meet our requirements.

Please note that relevant candidates will be asked to complete an Application form at a later stage to comply with our application process. 

It is envisaged that interviews will be held online on  either 1st December or 7th December 2020.

We believe everyone should be able to choose who they spend time with – and do what matters to them. We want to reduce loneliness and help make our communities more connected. We offer guidance, best practice, a community of people sharing their lives, legal advice and insurance.

This is an exciting short-term role for a period of 10 months covering maternity leave. We are looking for a Policy Officer who will keep our team and members abreast of policy issues affecting the Shared Lives and Homeshare sector across the UK, including legislation and regulation in health, social care, housing and benefits.  We need somebody who can ensure that Shared Lives Plus responds in a timely manner, provides accessible information to our members and to support the senior team and members to shape and influence national and local policy agendas.

The job has 3 principle purposes

The job has three principle purposes;

1. to keep the Shared Lives Plus team and members abreast of policy issues
2. to be the voice of Shared Lives Plus (and therefore members) in policy issues at the national level across the nations
3. to support the senior team and members to shape and influence national and local policy agendas

You will be a great communicator including having clear and concise presentation skills, as well as have the ability to work flexibly and creatively using own initiative to resolve issues. Overall an energetic and genuine friendly team member who is willing to help and support others, enjoys meeting new people and building long lasting relationships.

Closing date: 10am Monday 30th November 2020

Pre-interviews to be held via zoom TBC.       

Full Interviews to be held via zoom on 8/9 December 2020.

Job Title: Communications and Outreach Officer

Employer: RIVERSIDE SCHOOL, Barking, Renwick Road, IG11 0FU (as accountable body)

*support from TWCP resident steering group as the project develops its new charity

Reports to: Head of Communications and Programmes

Salary: £26,520 pro-rata (28 hrs per week, plus 17.2% pension contribution) 

Location:  Thames Ward, London Borough of Barking and Dagenham

Contract:  Short term contract to 31st March 2021 (with plans for renewal) 

Start date:  As soon as possible.

Thames Ward Community Project (TWCP): 

TWCP is developing a charitable company and transforming the area into a place that people are proud of, where they can see a positive and exciting future and feel able to influence and shape the changes that are taking place over the next decade and beyond. TWCP will lay the foundations for a community that has a strong identity and sense of common purpose; that takes great pride in the rich diversity of its residents; that feels it can shape its own future rather than simply be on the receiving end of decisions made elsewhere; that is better prepared to meet the challenges of major physical and demographic changes over the coming years; and that is determined to play its part in transforming services. 

Deadline for applications: 1200 miday Monday 30th November 2020 

The Centre for Justice Innovation is looking to recruit a capable and experienced research officer to help us build the evidence base for justice reform in the United Kingdom.

You will join our growing research team in working to understand and support the work of innovative projects in youth justice and other areas of the criminal justice system. You will design and deliver qualitative research, creating insights by working with service users and professionals at the front line of the system. You will also work with our practice development and policy teams to translate research findings into meaningful change.

In youth justice, you will explore approaches like youth diversion: a growing model which seeks to divert young people in trouble away from the criminal justice system and towards voluntary support. Our upcoming research on youth diversion hopes to answer questions like “how can we make youth diversion work for young people in care?” and “how can we ensure BAME young people have equal access to youth diversion?”

You will also contribute to research around other criminal justice innovations including extending the diversion approach to adults and improving practice in the youth courts.

Your duties will include:

• Leading on the design and delivery of research projects;
• Communicating research findings to a wide range of audiences including practitioners and policy makers;
• Working with the practice support team to provide direct support to areas in implementing youth and adult diversion projects;
• Managing relationships with stakeholders in the field of youth justice;
• Enhancing the Centre's reputation as a source of quality, trusted, leadership and support in promoting and developing innovation in the UK’s justice systems; and
• Contributing to the Centre’s wider work in policy, practice, evidence and data;

Chief Executive (CEO)

Salary: £57,000 to £62,000 PA depending on experience

Closing date: Monday, 7th December 2020

Location: Oxford & Buckinghamshire/Milton Keynes

Connection Support is a positive, forward thinking organisation with a strong social purpose and a commitment to delivering quality care and services for our clients.

We are looking for a new Chief Executive to lead us into the next stage of our journey. We’re clear about our future direction; we’ll not be standing still so continuous improvement is high up on our agenda, as well as delivering value for money so that we are using our resources to maximise opportunities for clients and providing high quality care and support services.

Our ideal candidate will be able to demonstrate a successful track record in strategic delivery and transformational change and like us, have a real passion for social care.

As a strategic leader, you will understand the importance of a positive organisational culture and will set the standard by role modelling the behaviours associated with our values. We are looking for a real people person who can inspire and motivate our team to deliver the best possible service to our clients and key stakeholders. You will have the energy, drive and enthusiasm to make sure Connection Support remains a financially strong, successful organisation.

In return, what you can expect from us is a supportive environment created by the Board and backed by colleagues across the organisation, to enable you to get the job done. You can also rely on a hardworking, passionate team focussed on doing the right thing for our clients and the business.

If you think you’ve got what we are looking for, we’d love to hear from you!

Closing date is 10am on Monday, 7th December 2020

Citizens Advice Nottingham and District is looking for a Chief Officer to lead and manage our Advice Services. The Chief Officer will build on our passion and reputation to ensure we continue with the provision and development of an effective and efficient organisation in accordance with local and national principles and requirements, meeting both current and future needs.

The Role

This is a rare opportunity to take on the leadership of our important services. As Chief Officer you will be responsible for the overall leadership, management and development of the organisation, identifying new and innovative areas of service development. You will work closely with our Trustee Board in determining plans for improvement and sustainability, as well as developing and maintaining relationships with our funders and partners and identifying further opportunities for development. You will ensure legal, financial and best practices are adhered to, promoting the aims and policies of Citizens Advice at all times.

The Candidate

To take us forward you will have a strong sense of mission and vision, and the ability to inspire people and take them with you. You will have a track record in development and operational delivery of targeted services.

As the ideal candidate you will be someone who works well under pressure in a fastpaced environment, and is an excellent communicator with demonstrable experience of working with a large number of diverse stakeholders.

Citizens Advice experience is not a requirement for this post but an understanding of advice services and of management in the voluntary sector are highly desirable.

Benefits

• 31  days Annual Holiday including 8 Bank Holidays
• Pension Scheme
• Flexible employer sensitive to the needs of today’s workforce
• Commitment to continued professional development.

If you have the skills and experience to lead our locally focussed organisation dedicated to assisting and empowering our communities, and help influence changes to local and government policies for the good, then we would love to hear from you.

Citizens Advice Nottingham & District is committed to promoting equality and valuing diversity and we seek people who share those values.

Citizens Advice Nottingham and District is an independent local charity and a member of national Citizens Advice providing free, confidential, independent and impartial advice and support to people in our area facing a variety of problems, including debt, benefits, housing, employment, relationships and consumer matters. In addition, we gather evidence to influence national and local policy to meet the needs of our local population.

We also campaign on big issues that affect people’s lives.

Last year we helped more than 12,700 people.

Our services are funded by local and national contracts, donations and support from our communities.

We work in partnership with our local authorities, other local advice agencies and charities.

Interviews are scheduled for 17 and 18 December 2020