The Nehemiah Project provides professional and life-changing support for men trapped in a spiral of addiction, which often involves offending and homelessness. Our two-stage recovery programme addresses the root issues that cause men to turn to substance abuse, to help them to break free from addictive and criminal behaviour and to begin to rebuild their lives.

Nehemiah runs two first-stage houses, one in Streatham and one in Croydon. Our Supported Housing Team run recovery programmes in both houses, under the supervision of the Supported Housing Manager. The two houses offer fourteen places to vulnerable adult men, to take part in our programme. Two move-on houses are located in Clapham, housing nine men.

We seek someone who is passionate about seeing men transform their lives. The successful candidate will have 4-5 years’ experience in the sector and specific experience in all three areas of our service delivery - referrals, programme delivery and resettlement. A good understanding of the behaviour of clients with complex trauma is important in our work.

We are rebuilding after lockdown and this is the final post to complete the team. The post will involve undertaking on-call duties no more than once a month and there is a small remuneration for this duty. Staff carry the on-call phone at all times for one week, and are ready to respond to emergencies. However, such call-outs are infrequent.

We regret that we cannot consider previous applicants for posts with Nehemiah.

The role

The Recovery Practitioner will contribute to creating a positive, supportive environment where our Residents can change their lives. Teamwork is essential to provide continuity of care to our Residents, and candidates must be willing to be flexible in helping out other team members.  For more information please see the Job Description, which provides an indication of the roles and responsibilities for the post of Recovery Practitioner, but is not an exclusive list of the duties that the post-holder may be asked to undertake.

Our Senior Youth & Play Worker will sit at the core of our Children, Young People and Families Team based at Tulse Hill Adventure Playground. You will be part of a small and dynamic team which delivers a wide range of programmes and activities from our Adventure Playground and within local schools. Reporting to the Children, Young People and Families Manager, you will be the senior practitioner ensuring the smooth running of our programmes and services.

The work of the Children, Young People and Families is diverse, and current services include  adventure play, coaching in local schools, homework clubs, youth work, and out of school and holiday services. You will lead on the delivery and planning of all sessions, developing best practice and ensuring monitoring is carried out in accordance to our multiple contractual and funding requirements. 

You will understand the wide-ranging challenges facing children and young people and will be flexible in adjusting your practice to meet these needs. Within your team, you will also hold responsibility for communications and outreach - promote our services across Tulse Hill and deliver ongoing and targeted outreach programmes to ensure our services are reaching those who need them most. A strong understanding of how your team sits within the wider work of the organisation and building strong relationships internally, as well as using your excellent communication skills to work within the wider community, is essential to the role.

Hours will include evenings and weekends.

CBT Online Adviser – GameChange

Full time – 35 hours per week
Home Based, with some travel required to London office

Salary: £21,000 – £25,000
Permanent

GamCare is the UK’s leading provider of information, advice and support for anyone affected by gambling-related harms.

GamCare now have an exciting opportunity to recruit a CBT Online Adviser to join our enthusiastic London based clinical team who deliver our GameChange programme. GameChange is our computerised Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (cCBT) course, designed specifically for those who are concerned about their gambling. The course is made up of eight treatment modules that aim to help clients explore their thinking patterns to assist with changing their relationship with gambling.

This role will work closely with the GameChange team, taking on administrative and client engagement tasks to help support this expanding programme. You will also work with gamblers, delivering interventions and raising safeguarding concerns where necessary.  

Key Responsibilities include:

• Support the GameChange course with administrative and user engagement tasks
• Deliver interventions via phone, instant message and online via the GameChange platform
• Liaise with agencies, professionals and other groups to sign post clients as required
• Raise Safeguarding concerns to the Senior Practitioner

You should have demonstratable experience of working in the field of addiction and/or experience of working with vulnerable groups and delivering interventions. 

This post will require an enhanced DBS check.

To apply, please complete go onto the GamCare website. 

If you would like acknowledgement that your application has been received, please ensure the application is attached and put the following subject in your email:

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Please note that if the subject is not correct, you may not receive a confirmation.

To discuss the role further please email Fay Kepidou (Team Leader). Application forms forwarded to this email will not be accepted.

Please note we do not accept CVs.

GamCare is committed to processing your personal data fairly, lawfully and transparently in line with GDPR. For further information on GamCare’s recruitment privacy notice please refer to our website.

Closing date for applications: 05 October 2020

Interviews are scheduled to take place remotely via Zoom videoconferencing software.

DV Job

Your new company

Hays are recruiting for a leading charity who support people affected and survivors of domestic abuse in London.

Your new role

• The main purpose of the job is with a view to improving their clients confidence, increasing their safety and reducing the risk of domestic homicide, honour-based violence, and harm from abuse. You will be supporting domestic abuse clients through the criminal justice system where appropriate and working with them to achieve safer outcomes.
• You will work in partnership with the hospital and other agencies to develop and deliver risk management plans to ensure victims' safety. You will be responsible for advocating on behalf of survivors of domestic abuse and managing and reviewing your cases.
• The successful candidate will have a thorough understanding of domestic abuse and its impact on victim/survivors 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 will understand the legal system in how it relates to survivors of domestic abuse and have strong communication skills and the confidence and ability to present and educate service users and agency partners on the realities and impacts of domestic abuse in a variety of settings. An ability to work independently and prioritise a busy workload is essential.
• You should have demonstrable experience of working in an IDVA or similar position with this or a similar client group, and an outstanding knowledge of supporting those experiencing domestic abuse, is essential including the MARAC process.

What you'll need to succeed

• You should have demonstrable experience of working in an IDVA or similar position with this or a similar client group, and an outstanding knowledge of supporting those experiencing domestic abuse, is essential including the MARAC process.
• You will need to have proven knowledge of the criminal justice system and social care and understand how they relate to survivors of domestic abuse.
• Possess excellent communication, written and IT skills, the ability to engage with clients and liaise and deliver training and presentations to external agencies and stakeholders effectively.
• Experience or knowledge of working in a health based setting would be advantageous.
• To be successful in this role you will ideally hold a SafeLives (CAADA) accreditation.
• An enhanced criminal record check is required for this role.

What you'll get in return

• Competitive Salary
• Permanent Job
• Working for a leading charity.
• If you do not have the DV qualification this organisation will fund your Safer Lives qualification once passed your probation period.
• Excellent career growth opportunities for the right candidates

What you need to do now

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Job Title: Lead Trainer and Assessor

Hours: 37.5 hours per week

Salary: £32,000 - £38,000

Contract: Permanent (subject to 6-month probationary period)

Location: Flexible (home, Bristol office or London office) with regular travel across UK

The Role

Our training programme significantly improves the ability of domestic abuse professionals and other frontline responders and organisations, including police, children’s social care staff, and corporate HR and community teams, to identify and respond to domestic abuse and closely linked issues. We take a holistic approach, looking at the whole family and the connections between them to keep families safe sooner, and offer a whole range of training products to develop people who support them, including accredited professional training (e.g Idva, Ypva), accreditation of specialist DA services (Leading Lights), and bespoke services for public, voluntary and commercial organisations.

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

As one of SafeLives’ trainers and assessors you will be part of the SafeLives learning and accreditation programme, with shared responsibility for developing, delivering and continuing a range of courses from within our suite. More broadly, you will work to ensure that SafeLives’ training programmes are in line with our strategic priorities and are of the highest quality, including course development and delivery with external partners and associate trainers.

You will combine teamwork with working independently on a day-to-day basis at home, in SafeLives’ Bristol or London office and at training locations.

This role offers a unique opportunity to influence the performance of professionals within the domestic abuse and related sectors at a national level as well as the response of other frontline or first responders in the public, voluntary or commercial sectors, and thus help address the risks faced by victims of domestic abuse.

Benefits include a generous package including 25 days’ holiday a year and public holidays, employee pension scheme with up to 4% employer contribution, childcare voucher scheme, Cycle to Work scheme and flexible working.

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.

We are seeking for a creative and committed Counsellor/Psychotherapist Latin American woman to join LAWRS’ Counselling and Psychotherapy team which offers a women-centred, culturally specific service in Spanish and Portuguese for Latin American women victims and survivors of violence against women and girls (VAWG) and work closely with No Limits/Sin Fronteras Project Coordinator to provide tailored wellbeing support to participants.

LAWRS’ No Limits Project (Sin Fronteras) is a creative art-based project for Latin American girls and young women (LAGYW) aged 14 to 21. The project provides a safe space for LAGYW who are facing severe disadvantage due to intersectional inequalities. This holistic programme provides participants with support to address needs and overcome barriers. It also offers opportunities for developing existing and new skills, as well as exercising critical thinking on issues that matter to them through the use of arts and campaigning work. The ultimate aim of this project is to enable participants to empower themselves and each other to seek the change they want to see in their lives, communities and wider society.

The main duties of this post include:

1. To provide high-quality specialist counselling and psychotherapy services, adhering to the BACP Ethical Framework for Good Practice in Counselling and Psychotherapy to LAYWG.
2. To design and co-facilitate psychoeducational group wellbeing sessions aimed at engaging LAYWG in age appropriate, participatory, creative and interactive sessions addressing traumatic lived experiences.

The post holder will be BACP accredited or equivalent or BACP registered and working towards an accreditation and be available to work on Saturdays.

This post is open to Latin American women only* in accordance with the Equality Act 2010. We particularly welcome applications from disabled and LBTQ+ candidates as they are currently underrepresented within the team.

*women who identify as Latin Americans (1st and 2nd generation) and speak Spanish and/or Brazilian Portuguese.

Please note that only applicants with the right to work in the UK covering the duration of the contract will be considered for this position.

Closing date to send your application: 27th September 2020

Interviews: Week beginning on 5th October 2020

Location: Greater London.

Salary:

Qualified applicants (with an accredited VAWG /domestic abuse qualification) dependent on experience: £26,000 – £29,000 per annum.

Unqualified applicants, dependent on experience: £26,000- £27,000 per annum

Hours: Both full time (37.5 hours per week) & part time hours will be considered

Contract: Permanent

Vacancy Reference: SWA2981

Closing Date: 2nd October 2020

Interview Date: 12th October 2020

Solace Women’s Aid is an innovative, exciting, grassroots charity working across London. Our purpose is to bring 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

Our Crisis Intervention Team provide front-line support to Solace’s Advice, Community and Accommodation-based Services across London. Crisis Intervention Workers enable our services to deliver a consistent, high standard of service. 

The team was created in order to have trained, skilled staff ready to cover gaps in service and facilitate the continued smooth running of services, proactively supporting women and children who have experienced domestic abuse.

About the Role

As a member of the Crisis Intervention Team, you will cover vacancies in a variety of roles, providing a high-quality support service to survivors of domestic and sexual abuse. This role is an excellent development opportunity which will allow you to gain experience in a wide range of services. 

The length of a placement within a service can range from several weeks to a few months. You will receive a local induction to the service at the start of the placement.

For all roles, you will carry out risk and needs assessments, safety planning, and individual support planning with survivors as well as advocating on  behalf of service users with external agencies, implementing the empowerment model and a strength based approach.  All work should be service user led and trauma informed.

Within Community Services, you will typically fill roles as a Caseworker or IDVA. As a Caseworker you will provide user led one to one support. As an IDVA you will also contribute to the local MARAC process to improve survivor safety.

Within Accommodation Services you will typically fill the role of Refuge Worker. You will ensure the smooth running of the refuge, including the admission of survivors of domestic violence to the refuge. You will work with women to devise a support plan that meets their immediate practical and emotional needs and starts the process of recovery, linking women into more specialist support services where required.

As a member of the Advice Service you will provide an effective and efficient advice and casework service to women affected by VAWG. The responsibilities include working on the advice line on a rota-basis and providing accurate advice, support, advocacy and casework to women and girls affected by all forms of VAWG as well as professionals. The role also includes supporting and supervising our volunteers on the line. Ensuring the duty inbox is checked and the referrals are processed.

About You

If you demonstrate commitment, innovation, passion, non-judgemental and collaboration, you’ll thrive in our diverse feminist team of professional women. 

Ideal candidates will have:

• Sound understanding of practical, emotional, social and economic issues affecting survivors of domestic and sexual abuse.

• In-depth knowledge advising on a range of options including safe housing, criminal justice, civil remedies

• Demonstratable knowledge of adult and children safeguarding

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Ability to thrive on working under pressure, prioritising workload and crisis management

• Sensitive and non-judgemental approach when working with vulnerable clients

• Experience of needs led risk assessment, support and safety planning.

• CAADA/Safe Lives/Women’s Aid IDVA or DAPA qualified (Desirable), or willingness to study.

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

Due to the nature of this role, an enhanced DBS will be required.

We have an exciting opportunity for a Community Intervention Worker to join us based in London. You will join us on a full time, fixed term contract until March 2021. You will work 35 hours per week excluding meal breaks working a 7-day rota with shifts being conducted between 6am and 7pm Monday to Sunday. In return, you will receive a competitive salary of £28,981 per annum (NJC Scale range 19-22) inc LW + pensions and other benefits.

About the role:

The Community Intervention Worker will help eliminate rough sleeping and associated street activity near the Passage Resource Centre in London Victoria. You will engage with and providing advice, support and assistance to enable rough sleepers to access accommodation and other services relevant to their needs. This is to be carried out within a multi-agency partnership framework and through a combination of brief interventions, sign posting and referrals to encompass all aspects of outreach work. The Passage is committed to working within a Trauma and Psychologically Informed framework keeping the client at the centre of all our work.

Key responsibilities of our Community Intervention Worker will include:

- Engaging with and gather intelligence around clients bedding down and/or involved in street activity on the streets in and around Victoria to build relationships and offer support to improve the health and wellbeing
- Taking a multi-agency problem solving approach, working in collaboration in regard to street counts, case conferences and joint work with other agencies involved with the client
- Facilitating supported reconnections or resettlement for rough sleepers to the services and areas most appropriate for them either directly or via NSNO or PHAC
- Using The Passage Resource Centre as a base, undertaking client work and administration as detailed in the staff rota, undertaking flexible duties to cover for sickness and holidays, as designated
- Assisting in the promotion of the work of The Passage to VBID, government, funders, press and media, and visitors and raise awareness of homelessness provision in Westminster and related services via presentations for VBID Stakeholders
- Responding  to the needs of allocated Wards, liaising with businesses and residents as required
- Attending fortnightly VBID team meetings and ensure a weekly presence at VBID offices to develop and build on existing working relationships with the VBID team
- Maintaining individual, up to date and accurate client data by inputting into The Passage client recording systems and CHAIN
- Taking part in pan-Westminster operations and audits as requested by the Community Liaison Coordinator

Our ideal Community Intervention Worker will have the following skills, experience, and knowledge:

Experience

- In depth experience of working with homeless and vulnerable people either through paid or voluntary capacity
- Experience of working in a psychologically informed way and employing psychological techniques in working with vulnerable adults
- Experience of conducting thorough assessment of people’s needs, entitlements and aspirations that are asset-based and deliver to multi-agency support plans
- Experience of working flexibly in different locations (including the streets), and different times as directed by client need and management
- Experience with w client-centred recovery focused approach and the necessary social skills to initiate and maintain constructive and appropriate relations with clients and agencies in a detached street environment

Knowledge

- Understanding the support needs of the street populations with complex health, and housing needs
- Understanding and use of a personalized approach in working with clients who live

on the streets or who are vulnerably housed
- Knowledge of equal opportunities and related issues for homeless and vulnerable people
- Knowledge of relevant housing legislation and the housing options available to homeless people
- A working knowledge of the main welfare benefits
- A working knowledge of the main housing legislation relating to homeless people

Closing date - 10am on 9 October 2020

Interview date - Week beginning 19 October

If you would like to join us in the role of Community Intervention Worker, please click ‘apply’ now – we would love to hear from you!

To deliver a quality befriending service to older people in Tower Hamlets, particularly but not exclusively to elders of Bangladeshi origin who may be experiencing loneliness, depression or dementia. This involves befriending older people and supporting them in a variety of practical ways helping to alleviate their loneliness through companionship through face to face visits and telephone. The overall aim of the post is to provide a social outlet for older people, to give them the support and information that they need and to help them develop greater independence, increase their social networks and enable them to lead a more fulfilling life. 

Send CV and covering letter setting out how you meet the requirements

Age UK Lewisham and Southwark offer high profile services supporting people aged 50+ in the borough of Southwark and Lewisham. A large part of what makes the services a success is due to the work of our Navigators, who support people using a person centred approach to address issues with isolation, malnutrition, safety at home and helping people to access the services they need.

The Community Navigator is an exciting new role working closely with older people, Rehab and Re-ablement team, support staff and local partners to ensure people are being supported holistically following discharge from services.
Navigators’ will support older people during the transition from care homes and other bed based settlements into clients own home and link them with local services. There are increasingly challenges to older and frail people and to Health and Social Care services where demand for services, and particularly those of hospital services increase.  It is during this period that it becomes even more critical that there are a range of appropriate, timely and proportionate services in place.

This is a busy, fast paced and rewarding role; giving you the opportunity to make a real difference. The role is largely home based with some days at our main office and Southwark Council office. You will be working closely with the rehab team and a team of friendly and knowledgeable Navigators, Coordinators and Advisors. Working hours are Mon – Fri. You will need to be able travel across the borough of Southwark.

If you are a good listener, a positive thinker and passionate about supporting older people we want to hear from you.

Closing date for applications is 18:00pm on Friday 28th August 2020.

Interviews will take place on W/C Tuesday -1st September via Zoom.

The role is 3 months fixed term (may be extended dependent on funding)