Beneficiary Support Coordinator Jobs in Manchester
Job Title: Wellbeing Coordinator
Hours: 35 per week
Salary: £35,392 per annum
Location: Home working, with travel across the UK
Reports to: Clinical and Recruitment Director
About the Organisation:
The organisation is a fun, forward-thinking, and creative UK charity that has been transforming the lives of seriously ill children and their families for more than twenty years. The free-of-charge programs are designed to address the loneliness, isolation, and sense of being different that affect the quality of life for children living with serious illnesses.
PURPOSE OF THE ROLE:
The Wellbeing Coordinator will play a pivotal role in ensuring the well-being of children and young people attending our camps. They will assess the social, emotional, and developmental needs of children and young people attending camp to determine the support needed during the camp experience. They will work alongside volunteers and colleagues to implement support strategies at camp that meet these needs.
They must assess, respond to, and escalate safeguarding concerns. The successful candidate will be a registered Children's Nurse with experience in CAMHS (Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services) or a special interest in children's mental health. They will work closely with camp staff, healthcare professionals, and volunteers to create a nurturing environment that supports the diverse needs and will contribute, when appropriate to nursing / clinical knowledge to ensure a safe and effective service.
MAIN DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:
Over The Wall seeks an individual passionate about the well-being needs of children and young people who use our service. You will also be a qualified nurse and occasionally use your clinical knowledge and skills to support the OTW Nursing Team when necessary.
Knowledge and expertise:
- Apply the basic principles of child and adolescent development and theoretical knowledge to work with children, young people, and their families.
- Sensitively relate to children and families of diverse backgrounds.
- Establish effective relationships and interactions, using age and developmentally appropriate approaches, to identify children and young people’s interests, strengths and vulnerabilities.
- Collaborate with the multidisciplinary team to identify health and wellbeing issues for specific groups of children/young people and for individuals.
- Work with families, professionals and children and young people to identify and plan for their psychosocial and safeguarding needs at camp.
- Work with the multidisciplinary team to develop and implement integrated individualised care plans, encompassing interventions and/or strategies to support children/young people’s and families camp experience.
- Collaborate with the multidisciplinary team to establish a camp environment in which children/young people feel safe, welcomed, respected and encouraged.
- Attend camp as a member of the Support Team, with a specific focus on behaviour, social and emotional needs (including mental health), and safeguarding.
- Supervise, mentor and support volunteers and staff in managing campers’ psychosocial wellbeing and behaviour at camp.
- Work collaboratively with the Nursing Team and the Clinical Team to ensure integrated holistic care.
- Ensure systems to monitor camper psychosocial wellbeing at camp are followed.
- Liaise with parents/carers and professionals as appropriate to support campers’ experience at camp.
- Deliver training and supervision around psychosocial issues, behaviour and safeguarding.
- Attend the relevant multidisciplinary meetings to contribute to coordinated assessment and support, raise any concerns and seek advice.
- Monitor and review the impact of interventions.
- Maintains and updates own clinical expertise.
- Takes every reasonable opportunity for maintaining, developing and acquiring competencies and skills for self-development.
- Provides support and guidance to Camper Recruitment Team and other staff around wellbeing and determining camper suitability.
- Leads the discussions with families and campers' wellbeing/psychosocial teams to clarify any issues/concerns and assess the suitability of the campers for camp.
- Ensures the provision of care is in accordance with OTW polices & procedures.
- Ensures high standards of care planning and documentation.
- Works autonomously to provide specialist knowledge to inform sound decision making.
- Contributes to the allocation of campers, taking into consideration individual camper needs and dependencies.
Camper Engagement:
- Develop informative, engaging, and relevant pre-camp communications for campers and their families.
- Collaborate with colleagues to provide creative age and developmentally appropriate methods for engaging children, young people and their families in the development and evaluation of services.
- Advocate for the needs of children and young people.
Record Keeping and Administration:
- Maintain accurate, factual, and contemporaneous records of camper/family contacts and interactions.
- Ensure personal information or observations about individual children/young people are appropriately shared with colleagues to support integrated multidisciplinary care.
- Record and report all concerns relating to needs assessment or safeguarding children to the appropriate member of staff.
- Keep objective and contemporaneous records of contacts, interventions and outcomes for campers and be able to utilise this information to inform future assessments and practice.
- Represents the organisation within internal and external networks.
- Promotes the corporate image of OTW to all individuals, groups, and organisations.
- Demonstrates professional attitude in dealing with campers/families, visitors/relatives, and colleagues, maintaining good relationships.
Networking:
- Develop strong and collaborative professional links within health and social care.
- Develop strong relationships within SeriousFun Children’s Network.
- Work alongside the Clinical and Recruitment Director, Nursing Coordinator and the Camp Director, as well as the wider staff team and clinical volunteers to ensure that care, treatment and service needs are met.
Personal and Professional Development:
- At all times maintain appropriate personal and professional boundaries.
- Maintain appropriate professional contact with campers and families, whether face-to-face or via online systems, telephone, or text.
- Ensure the responsibilities for camper confidentiality are maintained in all contacts with young people, families and any other individuals or organisations.
- Maintain own personal and professional development, acting on opportunities for learning.
- Be responsible and proactive in maintaining personal physical safety and emotional wellbeing, utilising supervision and support systems on offer.
- Ensures compliance with law, policy and stakeholder standards (eg SFCN).
- Meets deadlines set by the Clinical and Recruitment Director and Senior Management Team.
Information management:
- Provides reports as necessary.
- Collates as required quantitative and qualitative information.
- Analyses, interprets and presents data to highlight issues and risks, and support decision making.
- Maintains data quality standards when using IT systems.
Resource management:
- Ensures the efficient and effective use of stock, provisions and equipment within delegated budgets.
- Ensures adequate supply of clinical equipment at camp, supporting the warehouse and logistics operative.
Physical, mental & emotional effort:
- Travels within the UK and spends significant time away from home at camp and head office.
- Manages unpredictable work pattern and load.
- Demonstrates a flexible approach in working practices in order to meet the changes in service needs and emerging demands.
PERSON SPECIFICATION:
- Registered Children’s Nurse with current NMC (or equivalent) registration.
- Degree.
- Evidence of recent CPD.
- Minimum of 2 years’ experience of working with children and/or young people.
- Minimum of 3 years post-nursing qualification.
- Experience in responding to and de-escalating challenging behaviour.
- Experience in undertaking risk assessment.
- Understanding of the developmental, social, emotional and practical impact of serious illness on children/young people and their families.
- Experience in assessing and/ or supporting mental health.
- Understanding of current child protection/safeguarding law and effect disclosure management.
- Able to travel to range of locations.
- Full driving licence.
- Able to attend residential camps.
- Self-motivated.
- Clear about personal accountability.
- Emotionally resilient, clear personal and professional boundaries and awareness of risks in this role.
Diversity, Equality and Inclusion Statement
We actively encourage applications from the broad spectrum of diversity reflected in the charity’s beneficiaries, both in terms of visible and non-visible characteristics. They aim to ensure that any difference is valued regardless of where you are in the community.
Safeguarding Statement
The charity is committed to Safer Recruitment and REQUIRE at least two professional and independent reference checks, with one of the reference checks being the last or current employer.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Would you like to make a real impact on the lives of people with secondary breast cancer? Are you passionate about ensuring that people with secondary breast cancer receive the emotional, social and practical support and information that they need?
If so, we’d like to hear from you!
The role
We’re seeking a well-organised coordinator to join our team focusing on services for people with secondary (metastatic) breast cancer. This role will primarily develop new groups across the northwest region and will ensure successful delivery of those services. They are designed to provide information and emotional and practical support both online and face-to-face.
You’ll play a key role in supporting and developing our secondary services in the northwest of England and will be working with the services manager for secondary breast cancer and a team of coordinators who are based across the UK.
You’ll liaise with venues, expert speakers and support our team of dedicated qualified sessional therapists, as well as providing technical support for the running of monthly online services. You’ll also build productive relationships with healthcare professionals and other stakeholders to promote our services and increase their reach and uptake.
This role ensures Breast Cancer Now can make big strides forward in supporting everyone who needs us by making our services more widely available and increasing awareness of them.
About you
We’re looking for someone with experience of developing and delivering health, information, or other support services, who will enjoy managing relationships with a range of different stakeholders, often remotely.
You’ll be organised and with excellent time management skills, and able to use your initiative and prioritise your workload. You will enjoy working as part of a supportive and busy team who operate across different geographical sites.
Flexibility to travel across the northwest of England and work outside normal office hours, with overnight stays is required. This will involve regular (at least monthly) travel across Cumbria, Lancashire, Merseyside, Cheshire, and Greater Manchester (North).
About us
We’re Breast Cancer Now, the research and support charity. We’re the place to turn to for anything and everything to do with breast cancer. However, you’re experiencing breast cancer, we’re here.
The brightest minds in breast cancer research are here. Making life-saving research happen in labs across the UK and Ireland.
Support services, trustworthy breast cancer information and specialist nurses are here. Ready to support you, whenever you need it.
Dedicated campaigners are here. Fighting for the best possible treatment, services and care, for anyone affected by breast cancer.
Why? Because we believe that by 2050, everyone diagnosed with breast cancer will live – and be supported to live well. But to create that future, we need to act now.
Job description and benefits
The job description and our attractive benefits package are available for you to download.
Primary location of role and hybrid working
This role involves significant travel across the northwest of England and occasionally further for team away days and training. It can either be home based or office based at our Sheffield office if within reasonable commuting distance to Sheffield.
In line with our hybrid working model, if based at our Sheffield office, you will be required to attend the office for a minimum of 2 days per week, subject to the roles travel requirements.
When applying
Please submit your application via the link provided. When applying please ensure you refer to the essential criteria on the person specification and clearly provide as much information as possible with examples to demonstrate how and where you meet the criteria.
If you’ve any questions regarding this role please contact Breast Cancer Now Recruitment Team in the first instance.
Breast Cancer Now is an inclusive employer committed to developing a diverse workforce.
Closing date 9 April 2024 at 9:00am
Interview date Wednesday 17 April 2024 (virtual)
We are looking for an empathetic individual to help us deliver an exceptional standard of emotional and practical support to families bereaved of their child or children, working within our beautiful heart-centered environment. You will be part of a dedicated family support team who design, develop and deliver a wide range of safe, innovative, inspiring and therapeutic activities for the families supported by Reuben's Retreat. Responsible for the role of walking side by side with families who are navigating the toughest of times.
Are you looking for a rewarding, fulfilling role where the impact you have on the families being supported is tangible? Then apply to join our beautiful cause.
Full job description & person specification are available to download.
Please submit your current CV along with a covering letter stating how you meet our current values which are:
Authentic
Compassionate
Unique
Trusted
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Are you a strong, visionary leader keen to advocate for the VCSE sector? Are you interested in bringing people and organisations together to collaborate on the future of community led services across Hampshire and to be the public face of the organisation?
Having led the organisation through a significant period of change, our CEO has chosen to move on to take up a new challenge and set up her own business. We are now seeking a Chief Executive to lead Action Hampshire through the next phase of its strategy. This is an exciting opportunity for anyone who has the desire, vision and ambition to continue to build a system that is fairer for our communities.
As a strengths-based organisation, we value the unique contributions each member of our team brings and our organisational culture emphasises coaching and leadership over management. We’re committed to inclusivity, equity and to the wellbeing and safety of our team. This role offers a high degree of flexibility in working hours and can be delivered remotely, apart from bimonthly coworking or away days in Hampshire. You’ll have the opportunity to set your own development goals and targets and receive support to achieve them. Joining a friendly and supportive team, you’ll be able to manage your own time and work both independently and collaboratively with colleagues and contractors. You’ll have the opportunity to apply your strengths to other parts of the organisation too.
Key tasks include:
(see job description for a full list of tasks)
- Lead, inspire and develop the team at Action Hampshire to deliver our purpose
- Work with the Board of Trustees to ensure delivery and regular review of Action Hampshire’s (‘the charity’) vision, mission and strategic plans
- Deliver the charity’s vision and mission through appropriate plans and in accordance with agreed policies and protocols.
- Support and advise the Board to meet its responsibilities to ensure that the charity is legally compliant, well run and meets its organisational duties and obligations
- Enhance the charity’s impact and profile locally, regionally and nationally.
For almost 75 years, we’ve supported communities across Hampshire. Today, our mission focuses on strengthening the voluntary, community and social enterprise sector, supporting communities to raise their voices, and doing all we can to reduce disadvantage and celebrate diversity across Hampshire. Our responsive approach means we work across a wide range of issues relevant to our communities, from increasing the availability of rural affordable housing to ensuring cancer awareness messaging reaches seldom heard communities.
There has never been a more exciting time to join our talented, ambitious and friendly team. Our new 3-year strategy sets out clear goals and actions which we’ll achieve together. Our leadership team are embedding a culture of learning, experimentation and development. Our team is caring, collaborative and driven by our values of being bold, enterprising, informative, and empowering. We very much welcome applications from all members of the community, regardless of age, gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, faith or disability. We are a Living Wage employer and Disability Confident.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours per week: 21
Salary: £40,700 (FTE)
Closing Date: 21 April 2024
Interview dates start from: 29 April 2024
Today, 12 children and young people will be diagnosed with cancer. We’ll stop at nothing to make sure they get the right care and support at the right time.
When a child or young person is diagnosed with cancer, their whole world can feel like it’s falling apart. Their anxieties are deep. Their education, mental health and social lives suffer. Their futures feel very uncertain. They need tailored psychosocial support and they need to know that their voices and unique needs are being heard and understood. We’re there to make sure that happens.
We know what a better future could look like for children and young people with cancer. And we know what we need to do to make that future a reality. We know we need to push harder, reach further and work smarter. And we know we need the right people on our team to help us get there. People like you.
About the role
At Young Lives vs Cancer, we know that children, young people and parents with lived experience of childhood cancer are the best people to guide and shape the work that we do. A commitment to Voice is a commitment to listening to, collaborating with and championing the people we support to create meaningful change and a better future for all children and young people living with or after cancer.
As Voice Manager, you will work with the Head of Voice to deliver our Voice strategy and deliver a high-quality Voice team in order to enable young cancer patients and their families to have a stronger voice, inside and outside the organisation - not just to contribute, but also to challenge, giving the power to them to amplify their voice and make positive change.
Our Voice team is a key part of the Policy, Communications and Voice Directorate, which synthesises our policy, research, campaigning, voice, media & brand, digital and communication work. If you want to join us in working together to build a strong, effective system of support for young cancer patients and their families, we want to hear from you.
We would love to hear from you if you have experience of:
• Service user involvement and youth participation
• Communicating with different audiences and building strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders
• Collaborating with and influencing colleagues and beneficiaries to support involvement and co-production
• Managing a team / line management experience
• Sound written communication skills, including report writing and writing for digital channels
• Using digital platforms/CRM systems to build and engage networks and communities (desirable)
Young Lives vs Cancer is open to and in support of flexible working. Your flexibility requirements and that of the role will be discussed at interview stage with you.
This role is home-based and can be based anywhere in the UK with occasional visits to Young Lives vs Cancer workplaces.
This role is subject to an Enhanced Criminal Record Check. In the event of a successful application a Disclosure report will be sought.
Interviews are planned to take place on 29th April.
Diversity declaration
At Young Lives vs Cancer, we recognise that opportunities for too many people remain a condition of their race, class, gender identity, disability, sexual orientation – or a combination. This has never been acceptable to us as an organisation.
We are committed to taking anti-oppressive action and removing barriers in our recruitment practices. We particularly welcome applications from members of minoritised communities and creating equitable opportunities for all. We are passionately committed to taking actions and making changes to be a truly diverse, inclusive and equitable organisation, as well as reflective of the diverse children and young people we support. Click here to find out more about our Diversity, Inclusion, Equity and Belonging strategy.
Accessibility
We are committed to providing reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process and we’ll always endeavour to be as accommodating as possible. Please get in touch with us if you would like to discuss any specific requirements.
What we offer
In return for your commitment, we offer a great reward package, which includes generous annual and family/ caring leave entitlements, enhanced pension and employee savings scheme.
If you join us, you will be part of a community that is committed make a difference to the lives of children and young people with cancer. Young Lives vs Cancer is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment.
You may have experience of the following: Voice Engagement Coordinator, Youth Advocacy Coordinator, Participation Strategy Manager, Community Voice Advocate, Inclusion and Participation Manager, Youth Engagement and Empowerment Officer, Patient Voice Liaison Officer, Family Advocacy Coordinator, Collaborative Voice Facilitator, Empowerment and Inclusion Specialist, etc.
REF-212 644
Job Title: Development Manager
Place of Work: Salford M6
Hours of Work: Part Time, 28 hours per week (flexibly across four days, 9am–4.30pm)
Salary: Competitive - Actual salary £28,728 to £30,168 per annum (FTE £35,904 to £37,710)
Are you passionate about making a meaningful impact on mental health? Do you possess strategic acumen and a drive for innovation? If so, we invite you to apply for the position of Development Manager at START.
About Us: START is a leading mental health charity that has been delivering mental health recovery and prevention services in Salford for almost 30 years. We are dedicated to creating positive change and supporting individuals on their mental health journey.
Our mission is to improve and enhance the quality of life, health and wellbeing of target groups within the community, in particular people at risk of experiencing mental health difficulties or social Isolation.
About the Role: The Development Manager will play a key role in ensuring that we build on existing significant relationships as well as identifying and securing new and emerging opportunities within both the mental health and creative health landscape.
We are looking for a dynamic individual who can ensure that START continues to be recognised as a valued and successful partner organisation. The role offers unparalleled opportunities for personal and professional growth and the prospect of shaping your own career trajectory within a thriving charity that has doubled in size over the past 5 years.
Closing date: 12 noon on Friday 5th April 2024.
Interviews are scheduled to be held on Thursday 18th April 2024.
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