This post can based at any of our Skylights which are at the following locations London, Brent, Croydon, Oxford, Merseyside, South Wales, South Yorkshire, Coventry, Birmingham, Newcastle and Edinburgh.

Recruitment during COVID-19 restrictions

During the COVID-19 restrictions, our interviews will be by video call.
Additionally, the successful applicant will be supported to work from home for the initial period where restrictions on non-essential travel are in place.

About Crisis
Crisis is the national charity for homeless people. We know that homelessness is not inevitable. We know that together we can end it. Through our pioneering research into the causes and consequences of homelessness and the solutions to it, we know what it will take to end it, together, in our lifetimes.

About the role
This is an exciting opportunity to provide expert advice on welfare rights and entitlements for people facing homelessness, including those who may appear to have no recourse to public funds, to contribute to Crisis’ mission of ending homelessness. Advice and assistance will be offered on an internal consultancy basis to Crisis Skylight staff to enable them to advocate for their clients. For complex cases, more direct involvement will be required including direct work with members and advocacy to relevant agencies.

About you
To be successful in this role you will have extensive experience of working in the welfare benefits sector. You will enjoy working across Client Services providing good quality advice and support as well as developing and delivering training to Skylight staff.

Your knowledge and expertise will contribute to the development of policy, practice and campaigns work by providing examples of where welfare policy and/or practice contributes to the perpetuating or creating homelessness.

Benefits
As a member of the team you will have access to a wide range of employee benefits including:

· Interest free loans to purchase a train season ticket or a bike or for a deposit to secure a tenancy
· Mandatory pension scheme, with an employer contribution of 8.5%
· 25 days’ annual leave which increases with service to 28 days

Alongside our excellent staff benefits, we will support your ongoing development to build your skills, experience and career.

How to apply
If this sounds like the opportunity for you, please visit our website to apply online. The job description is available on our website by clicking on the 'Vacancy Details' button.

If you need to request an application in an alternative format, please contact the HR team through the Crisis website.

Closing date: Wednesday 13 August 2020 (11.59pm)

We value diversity, promote equality and encourage and applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from people with lived experience of homelessness.

Registered Charity Numbers: E&W1082947, SC040094

Duties and Responsibilities

Support work:

➢ To work with women to identify their, and their children’s, support needs and incorporate these into women’s individual support plans ➢ To assess risk and to safety plan with women, reviewing assessments and risks regularly ➢ To devise and implement appropriate methods of communication with women and children, in agreement with your line manager ➢ To provide practical support on a range of issues including housing, benefits, legal matters, and emotional support to enable women’s recovery from their experiences of abuse. ➢ To work alongside colleagues at BSWA’s Home Options Hub to provide advice and support to women around housing options and develop individual housing action plans with women ➢ To support women through their resettlement process where relevant ➢ To facilitate access to BSWA and its services and to refer and signpost into specialist statutory and community services where necessary to help meet needs ➢ To encourage the development of safe and appropriate support networks within the community ➢ To work within the monitoring and evaluation procedures for the project including encouraging feedback from service users and producing statistical information

Development:

➢ To identify and develop support strategies to meet the needs of women and children seeking support ➢ To keep up to date with current legislative changes for dissemination within staff team, and for use when working with women and children around their rights. ➢ To identify and make links with existing projects and community services and to develop joint services where appropriate ➢ To keep abreast of issues regarding domestic violence on a national and local level with particular reference to those that may affect the work of the Project ➢ To participate in multi agency work as agreed with your line manager ➢ To promote awareness of the impact of domestic violence on women and children and BSWA services

Administration:

➢ To work within BSWA’s administrative and financial systems ➢ To ensure that adequate records are kept for all service users and relevant monitoring data collected and recorded ➢ To ensure that Health and Safety records are kept up to date ➢ To produce monthly reports for your line manager

Communication:

➢ To ensure that all staff team members are aware of any matters that are relevant to the welfare and security of the refuges, staff, volunteers and service users by: a) Maintaining BSWA communication records b) Following safety procedures c) Attending team meetings d) Carrying out risk assessments in conjunction with your line manager ➢ To attend in-house training ➢ To attend support and supervision sessions with your line manager ➢ To develop a professional working relationship with external agencies ➢ Feedback relevant issues from external meetings/ training to the staff and management teams as appropriate ➢ To be involved in the Annual Review process 

General:

➢ To maintain the confidentiality of the women and children using the service and in all matters relating to the organisation ➢ To offer an equal service to all women and children regardless of age, class, culture, language, race, religion and sexual orientation ➢ To work within BSWA policies and procedures and demonstrate a commitment to the values and ethos of BSWA ➢ To work within BSWA’s framework for equal opportunities and anti-discriminatory practice ➢ To adhere to Child Protection and Safeguarding procedures, and Adult Safeguarding procedures throughout ➢ To undertake any other duties required by BSWA, which may arise and commensurate with the post

Birmingham Settlement is seeking to recruit an energetic, self-motivated and committed Community Action Worker to support our work in developing people and places. Based in Aston, you will contribute to the development and implementation of innovative community based programmes; helping to establish partnerships and networks, supporting individual and community development through volunteering, advice, support, and social action that addresses community priorities, local improvements and opportunity.

The Community Action Worker will work closely with individuals and groups to develop the skills they need to establish the activities they want in response to community needs and wishes. They will also have a particular focus on supporting individuals to overcome the barriers they face to get to the point where they can access and take part in our wider programmes of support.

This position present an exciting opportunity for the right person to make a significant contribution to the work of the Settlement and people we serve.

Closing date: Friday 14th August 2020 at 12 noon

Interviews: Thursday 20th August 2020.

Birmingham Settlement is committed to Equality of Opportunity and welcomes applications from all sections of the community. Registered charity number 517303

Recovery Navigators

Birmingham

£18,246 (pro rata £9,123 for part time position) per annum

37.5 hours Erdington, Birmingham

18.75 hours Handsworth, Birmingham

Our client is a leading provider of mental health services in Birmingham and the West Midlands.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for Recovery Navigators to offer an individualised and integrated Recovery service to users aged 18 upwards, who require support to manage their physical, psychological and emotional health needs.

You will have a central base at either their Erdington or Handsworth Recovery Hub.  These roles require the post holder to be able to work evenings and weekends on a rolling rota. Your typical week would include facilitating social support sessions in community venues, offering activities such as stress reduction and relaxation, and giving signposting advice and guidance and personal development planning. 

You will be required to complete administrative hours each week  in order to update your online registers, update service user information on their online database, contact new referrals, prepare materials for your upcoming activities or sessions, respond to emails, and follow up any other administrative duties in relation to your role. 

Please see the Recovery Navigator Job Description for full details of all of the skills and experience required for this role by clicking apply. If you feel that you meet the requirements of this position they would like to hear from you.

Benefits include 33 days holiday (including Bank and Public Holidays), defined contribution pension scheme, Paycare which offers employees affordable cover for a range of healthcare treatments, an Employee Assistance Programme which includes free counselling and a comprehensive training programme. 

Their people are key to the success of the organisation and they are recognised as both a Mindful Employer as well as achieving Gold standard success in Investors in People. They welcome applications from people who have experienced mental health difficulties.

Caseworker – SEND (Part Time)
Walsall, West Midlands

About Us

We are Family Action, a national charity committed to building stronger families and brighter lives by delivering innovative and effective services and support that reaches out to many of the UK’s most vulnerable people.

We seek to empower people and communities to address their issues and challenges through practical, financial and emotional help. Our work is wide-ranging and includes help for parents-to-be, the provision of many Children’s Centres in local communities, intensive family support, emotional health and wellbeing services, counselling, mediation and therapies, support in schools and financial grants programmes. Family Action is also recognised as a leading provider of training and consultancy.

We’re looking for two Caseworkers to join us on a part-time basis and support the delivery of our Special Education Needs and/or Disabilities Information and Advice Service (SENDIAS) in Walsall. 

The Benefits

- Salary of £19,974 - £22,584 pro rata 
- Leave entitlement and pension scheme
- Career development opportunities
- Full induction and ongoing quality training
- The opportunity to become part of Family Action initiatives
- Flexible working hours

If you have a strong understanding of SEND legislation, this is a brilliant opportunity to make a real difference to the lives of families in Walsall. 

You will have the chance to play an integral role in driving the success of the service at a local level and ensuring that SEND issues are a priority for everyone. 

We are forward looking, ambitious and committed to continuous improvement. We are a people-focused, can-do organisation that operates with mutual respect. If you share these values, we would love to hear from you.

The Role

As a Caseworker, you’ll support the delivery of our SENDIAS offering, which will be launched in Walsall in September 2020. 

SENDIAS aims to empower parents/carers and young people with special educational needs and disabilities by providing free impartial information and advice relating to education, health and social care.

You will provide families with advice, support and information to help them navigate the SEND process and achieve positive outcomes.

Specifically, you will:

- Communicate with families over the phone, via email and through face-to-face meetings
- Provide impartial advice on local policies and practice
- Support families during the EHC assessment and planning process
- Develop positive working relationships with agencies

About You 

To join us as a Caseworker, you’ll need: 

- At least one year’s experience in a similar support role 
- Experience of working with families with additional needs and/or in an educational environment, local authority, voluntary organisation or another field relevant to additional needs
- Knowledge of SEND legislation, particularly the SEND Code of Practice 2014 
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills
- A recognised professional qualification in social work, health, education or equivalent 
- An Independent Provider of Special Education Advice IPSEA legal training qualification (or the willingness to gain this within 12 months) 

Experience of working directly with young people would be beneficial to your application. 

Other organisations may call this role Support Worker, SEND Support Worker, Social Care Assistant, Social Care Worker, SEND Advisor, Care Worker, or Special Educational Needs & Disability Support Worker.

These are part-time roles, working 22.2 hours per week and two positions are available.

The closing date for applications is the 12th August 2020.

Webrecruit and Family Action are equal opportunities employers, value diversity and are strongly committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all employees and all applicants for employment. Equal opportunities are the only acceptable way to conduct business and we believe that the more inclusive our environments are, the better our work will be.

So, if you’re seeking your next challenge as a Caseworker, please apply via the button shown. This vacancy is being advertised by Webrecruit. The services advertised by Webrecruit are those of an Employment Agency.

Careers Advisor
Birmingham, West Midlands or Home Based (with travel throughout Birmingham/the Black Country area)

About Us

ACH (Ashley Community Housing) is a social enterprise that provides a range of integration and support services for refugees. During the past ten years, we’ve grown from a small-scale housing organisation to a leading provider of integration, employment and housing services for refugees and newly arrived communities in the UK.

Through our training subsidiary, Himilo Training, we are successfully expanding our services to deliver training, development and employment opportunities to the broader communities in which we operate.

We’re currently looking for two Careers Advisors to join us on a full-time or part-time basis.

The Benefits

- Salary of £19,064 - £24,000 per annum (pro rata if part time)
- Mobile phone and laptop
- Free parking
- Paid company sick leave
- Company pension after probation period
- 20 days’ holiday + Bank Holidays (pro rata if part time)
- Claimable expenses for any work-related travel

If you have experience of delivering careers advice (or are looking to develop your career in this area), this is a brilliant opportunity to join an innovative organisation that helps people to realise their full potential.

Working as part of a passionate team, you will have the chance to make a positive impact on individuals throughout the Black Country area and enable them to achieve their professional and educational aspirations.

The Role

As a Careers Advisor, you will provide careers advice to adults at venues throughout the Black Country area, including Dudley, Walsall and Wolverhampton.

Supporting the delivery of our National Careers Service, you will advise individuals face-to-face, via telephone, email and other digital means to help them achieve their work or learning goals.

Additionally, you will:

- Support individuals to develop their career management skills
- Develop relationships with a network of referral partners, such as community and faith organisations
- Represent and promote our organisation and services
- Attend training to maintain your knowledge

About You

To join us as a Careers Advisor, you’ll need:

- Experience of delivering careers advice to employed and unemployed adults, individually or in groups (or working in a similar environment)
- At a minimum, a Level 4 Diploma in Careers Information and Advice or NVQ 4 in Advice & Guidance or equivalent (or the willingness to gain this)
- Strong IT skills, including the use of social media
- The ability to deliver careers advice in a range of settings and through a range of delivery modes

We are also eager to hear from individuals who want to build their careers advice experience and are seeking a trainee role.

Other organisations may call this role Employment Advisor, Careers Adviser, Guidance Counsellor, Employment Services Co-ordinator, Career Guidance Advisor, or Careers Counsellor.

This role is available on a full-time basis (37.5 hours per week) or part-time basis (18.5 hours per week). For the part-time position, we are flexible as to when these hours are worked.

Webrecruit, ACH (Ashley Community Housing) and Himilo Training are equal opportunities employers, value diversity and are strongly committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all employees and all applicants for employment. Equal opportunities are the only acceptable way to conduct business and we believe that the more inclusive our environments are, the better our work will be.

So, if you’re seeking your next challenge as a Careers Advisor, please apply via the button shown. This vacancy is being advertised by Webrecruit. The services advertised by Webrecruit are those of an Employment Agency.

The Active Wellbeing Society (TAWS) is a community benefit society and cooperative working to develop healthy, happy communities living active and connected lives.

Our vision is for a society where people have the autonomy, capacity, resources and skills to become the architects of their own destiny; where our individual wellbeing is recognised as being bound up in our collective responsibility to and dependency on each other; and where all of us feel empowered as agents of social change to make a difference – whether at an individual level or more widely.

By working collaboratively with communities we aim to bring about sustainable change on an social, environmental and economic level; to do the social knitting required to create stronger and more resilient communities and to support communities to identify, mitigate and remove the barriers that prevent them from living active and connected lives.

The role is responsible for the development and delivery of wellbeing services that support people to live well in and around their homes and community. It will be responsible for developing and expanding the Listen and Connect telephone support and befriending service and will lead on working closely with health and social care colleagues, including internal staff, to develop programmes and services that support people to improve their wellbeing. The role will develop the portfolio of work in the fields of telephone support services, mental health, isolation and working with vulnerable adults to ensure that they are supported and connected. The Listen and Connect service has been developed in response to the levels of isolation and loneliness experienced as a result of COVID-19. It provides people with advice, guidance, service navigation information and for many, a friendly chat. The Programme Manager is required to develop and expand the service that sit within this function to support those most in need, including vulnerable older adults, those who are isolated and those requiring support for their mental and physical wellbeing. The Wellbeing Support Programme Manager will be responsible for service design, development of patient and service user pathways, service protocols and referral routes in and out of the service. The role will oversee the Listen and Connect team and work closely with telephone triage and Knowledge and Insight to ensure ease of access to the service for people to self-referral and agencies to access on behalf of other. It is essential to understand the commissioner, provider and funding landscape relevant to this programme of work. 

Main responsibilities:

Work with internal Directorate colleagues such as Healthy Communities Programme Manager to develop service in line with wider Social Prescribing services to support vulnerable adults.

 •Identify methods and potential funding, to develop approaches to supporting people in the recovery and restoration phase of Covid to live well. 

•Working closely with the wider telephone triage team to ensure pathways into the service are clear.

•Develop service governance including patient and service user pathways, protocols, safeguarding policy and other relevant paperwork.

•Work with Knowledge and Insight to develop robust data collection and reporting on service impact.

•Lead on engaging internal and external stakeholders as part of a multi-disciplinary team to identify new ways of supporting lonely and socially isolated adults and raising awareness and access to the service(s).

•Lead on developing new programmes and services with health and social care colleagues such as GPs, Adult Social Care, providers and commissioners that that support people to be socially and physically active, and mentally well.

•Develop approaches specific to the Covid recovery phase, for supporting individuals and communities to improve their health and wellbeing.

•Work proactively with key partners such as health, social care and mental health to ensure that appropriate pathways, relationships and funding opportunities are maximised.

•Lead and manage the Listen and Connect team, offering supervision and support to staff to deliver the service and manage complex cases, in addition to line management and case management.

•Develop the workforce, including training and skills and wider service development & manage the Listen and Connect team.

Strategic Scope:

•Works at a strategic level, having input into strategy and budgets for their department and business area.

•Contributes to the direction of the business through input into the strategic plan and budget setting for their immediate area of responsibility.

•Has a full range of management and leadership skills.

Business Skills

:•Responsible for the management of a department, which is of significant importance to the business.

•Takes the initiative to keep own and subordinates skills and knowledge of their technical or professional specialty up to date.

Complexity:

•Makes decisions that impact the organisation's achievement of organisational objectives and financial performance.

•Demonstrates clear leadership and the ability to influence and persuade.

•Performs a challenging range and variety of complex technical, professional or financial activities

.Autonomy:

•Establishes organisational objectives and delegates responsibilities.

•Accountable for actions and decisions made not only by themselves, but by subordinates.

Specialist/technical roles (if applicable):

•Is a subject-matter expert within their own discipline and has a broad understanding of all aspects of their technical discipline.

•Specialist knowledge of developing service protocols, safeguarding and supporting vulnerable adults

•Experience of supervising and supporting staff to deliver the service and manage complex cases, working with vulnerable adults, in addition to case management.

•Understands the implications of new developments in their area of speciality and maintains awareness of developments in the community.

Benefits

·Bring your own device - £20 towards your phone bill monthly.

·Health Shield – discounted health benefit against eye examinations/prescriptions.

·+Plus EAP (counseling and DRs on call 24hrs a day)

·Death in Service – 4 times your salary paid to beneficiary.

·Nest Pension – 8% paid by TAWS 3 % paid by employee.

·Annual Leave – 25-29 days AL plus 5 wellbeing days

·Flexible working.

Citizens Advice provides free, independent and impartial advice and information to help people resolve their problems. Each year our local offices across the country help 2.6 million people with their problems - either through face-to-face or telephone advice, or online. Our amazing data allows us to spot emerging issues quickly, making us uniquely placed to raise awareness of these issues and advocate for solutions.

The Expert Advice Team at Citizens Advice provides subject matter support and expertise to thousands of advisers across England and Wales, and helps to ensure the accuracy of our online content. 

We support the local network of Citizens Advice services and our national online content team in major advice areas such as debt, benefits, housing, employment, immigration, family and consumer law. We do this through one to one consultancy with local advisers, one to many advice and training products and legal assurance of content. We also provide expert support to other functions such as public policy and news.

We are looking for an Employment Expert to work with us from now until 31 March 2021.This expert will provide legal and advice expertise in employment law to Citizens Advice internal teams and to the Citizens Advice network of local offices.  To support the delivery of employment advice across the Citizens Advice network.

The location is flexible with travel to our offices in London, Leeds or Birmingham likely. Hours are flexible from 21.75 to 36.25 hours per week and we are happy to discuss potential part-time and flexible working arrangements with prospective applicants. 

This role is based in a team of high-performing subject matter experts and qualified lawyers. The postholder must have an interest in law and experience of legal research, but a law degree is not a requirement and you don’t need to be a qualified solicitor or barrister. 

Our offices are currently closed due to coronavirus, with employees working from home. We are open to discussion about flexible working, and are willing to consider both full or part time working.

We particularly welcome applications from disabled and Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME and disabled people are currently under-represented throughout Citizens Advice. We are a member of the race equality campaign at Business in the Community, the Prince’s responsible business network and are committed to improving employment opportunities for ethnic minorities across the UK. We also welcome applications from, LGB and Trans and non binary candidates.

We have made a positive commitment to employing disabled people and guarantee to interview all disabled candidates who meet the minimum essential criteria for the role as set out in role profiles.

Please note, in the event of a high number of applications, we reserve the right to close the application early. 

£19,847 - £23,350 p/a (Please note successful candidates should expect to be appointed at the starting point of the salary scale and consideration may be given to a higher salary depending on the experience of the individual)

Full-time (35 hrs p/w) - Fixed term contract until 25th June 2021

HMP Birmingham

Ref: RMB-201

Are you a positive and emotionally resilient individual with a good understanding of the barriers facing men and young people with complex needs within the Criminal Justice System? 

If so, St Giles Trust is looking for a Resettlement Caseworker (known internally as Meet at the Gate Worker) to join us and provide a high level Meet At The Gate support service to men experiencing complex and multiple disadvantage being released from HMP Birmingham.

About St Giles Trust 

An ambitious, well-established charity that helps people facing adversity to find jobs, homes and the right support they need. Central to our ethos is our belief that people with first-hand experience of successfully overcoming issues such as an offending background, homelessness, addictions and gang involvement, hold the key to positive change in others. 

About this vital role

Your challenge will be to help reduce re-offending by delivering a practical support service to prisoners on release identified by the CRC as their most ‘at risk’ clients, including recalls. Day-to-day, you’ll undertake pre-release visits to clients (in prison where possible) in order to produce action and risk management plans. As well as providing a comprehensive and holistic assessment, advice, referral and support service to clients, we’ll rely on you to construct a personalised action plan to address their needs that contribute to their offending behaviour. 

Delivering an outreach service that involves meeting service users at the prison gates and providing a practical service that includes setting up access to housing, benefits, registering with GPs/Dentists and attending appointments will be an important part of the role too. Along the way, you’ll also liaise with a variety of local community, develop working relationships with prison departments, officers, CRC and community services and actively promote good partnerships and effective joint working.

What we are looking for:

• Lived personal experience or knowledge of the Criminal Justice System and experience of, or an understanding of how to work with, challenging people with complex and multiple disadvantages who are reluctant to discuss their needs, and often angry and confused

• Experience of developing successful inter-agency work, particularly with a view to working with referring agencies

• Knowledge of housing options available to ex-offenders, especially knowledge of the Homelessness Act plus familiarity with the Benefits system, including Universal Credit

• An understanding of mental health problems and drug/alcohol misuse issues among vulnerable people, including the effects and treatment 

• Lots of initiative, good relationship building skills and the ability to use monitoring systems and provide flexible working when delivering an outreach service to vulnerable service users. 

In return, you can expect a competitive salary, generous leave allowance, staff pension, flexible working, a mentoring programme, an advice and counselling service, childcare vouchers, season ticket loan and much more.

For further information, or to apply, please visit our website.

Closing date: 11pm, 16th August 2020. Interviews: 26th August (interviews are likely to be held via zoom)

This is a fantastic opportunity for someone who is looking for a new challenge in the West Midlands.

Arden Place is a brand new supported living accommodation for adults with learning disabilities and autism in Tile Cross, Birmingham.  Arden Place is a Bromford My Place Service. My Place, is a unique Supported Living model created to provide appropriate accommodation for people with long term conditions such as learning disabilities or autism. Bethphage are the care provider, providing on site care and support for people living at Arden Place and helping them to connect with their community through meaningful activity.

These brand new purpose built flats are designed to meet people's current and future needs, providing a safe and secure long-term home in the heart of the community. The scheme has 14 purpose built self-contained one bedroom apartments.

Arden Place has a community hub with a lounge, meeting room and kitchen which not only provides a social area for people living in the scheme, but it also provides facilities to deliver training, employment advice and activities to both the people we support and the wider community.

This great opportunity has opened up for an Assistant Service Manager in our Supported living services in Birmingham.

As well as supporting the service manager in Arden Place, we require you to also support with our established supported living services for four adults with learning disabilities in North and South Birmingham. 

The people we support in all these areas have varying needs of support some of which require personal care. All services will be supporting people with Learning disabilities, Mental Health and Autism. The Assistant Service Manger will also be expected to support in all of these areas. 

Evening and Weekend Work may be required as part of the role and participating in our on-call rota.

All services will focus on a person centred approach and promoting people’s independence

About our organisation 

Bethphage is a registered charity which was established in 1994 and provides support to adults with learning and physical Disabilities in Shropshire and the West Midlands.
Everything we do is individually designed to enable people to achieve their potential and meet their objectives and need for support. The people that we support may live in their own home, a home that is shared with other people, their family home or a shared care home.
It is the aim of Bethphage to provide outstanding care and support throughout the organisation so it essential that you will be dedicated to providing the highest levels of care that you can.

You will be required to create a team that champions excellent support by actively coaching and modelling respectful positive approaches to achieve the greatest possible independence and quality of life for the people we support, based on an understanding of what is important to and for them.

If this opportunity sounds like you, and you can demonstrate the following attributes, please get in touch

• Open and Honest.
• Committed.
• Person Centred Approach.
• Proactive and innovative

Essential Requirements

• Level Three in Health and Social Care
• Previous Supervisory Experience
• Driver
• Car Owner

Desirable Requirements 

• Experience of developing new services for adults with a learning disability, Autism and/or Mental Health
• A good understanding of partnership working.

Benefits of Working for us

• Competitive pay
• Simply Health Cash Plan
• Long service rewards
• Contributory Pension scheme
• Development opportunities
• Recruitment awards
• Paid enhanced DBS certificate
• Paid training

*Please note, interested applicants must complete an application form

Closing date - 14th July (this may be extended) 

Interview Date - 22nd July - (this may change)

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Project Manager 
Walsall, West Midlands

About Us

We are Family Action, a national charity committed to building stronger families and brighter lives by delivering innovative and effective services and support that reaches out to many of the UK’s most vulnerable people.

We seek to empower people and communities to address their issues and challenges through practical, financial and emotional help. Our work is wide-ranging and includes help for parents-to-be, the provision of many Children’s Centres in local communities, intensive family support, emotional health and wellbeing services, counselling, mediation and therapies, support in schools and financial grants programmes. Family Action is also recognised as a leading provider of training and consultancy.

We’re currently looking for a Project Manager to join us and lead the delivery of our Special Education Needs and/or Disabilities Information and Advice Service (SENDIAS) in Walsall. 

The Benefits

- Salary of £26,682 - £29,280 per annum
- Leave entitlement and pension scheme
- Career development opportunities
- Full induction and ongoing quality training
- The opportunity to become part of Family Action initiatives
- Flexible working hours

If you have experience of supporting children and young people with SEND, this is a great opportunity to make a real difference to the lives of families in Walsall. 

You will have the chance to play an integral role in driving the success of the service at a local level and ensuring that SEND issues are a priority for everyone. 

We are forward looking, ambitious and committed to continuous improvement. We are a people-focused, can-do organisation that operates with mutual respect. If you share these values, we would love to hear from you.

The Role

As the Project Manager, you’ll oversee the delivery of our SENDIAS offering, which will be launched in Walsall in September 2020. 

SENDIAS aims to empower parents/carers and young people with special educational needs and disabilities by providing free impartial information and advice relating to education, health and social care.

In this important role, you will: 

- Lead your team to deliver services to a high standard 
- Ensure that the voices of children, young people and parents inform and influence the development of SEND policy and practice 
- Provide practical support to parents, either individually or as a group 
- Organise workshops/conferences/forums for parents, young people and other agencies to promote understanding of current SEND issues

About You

To join us as a Project Manager, you will need: 

- Proven experience of working directly with vulnerable families to support positive, measurable and evaluated outcomes for children and young people with Special Educational Needs
- Experience of managing a budget and the ability to manage demand within allocated resources
- Strong leadership skills with the ability to manage and supervise both paid staff and volunteers
- A detailed understanding of current SEND legislative framework, particularly affecting SEND processes, admissions, exclusions and appeals
- Demonstrable experience of contributing to, and producing, high-quality data reports
- The proven ability to manage and develop a project that has a multiagency component and work in partnership with other agencies
- Knowledge of safeguarding children and vulnerable adults and Working Together to Safeguard Children
- A relevant health, social care or education qualification (NVQ level 3 or equivalent) and experience of working with SEND procedures 
- An Independent Provider of Special Education Advice IPSEA legal training qualification (or the willingness to gain this within three months) 

Other organisations may call this role SENDIAS Project Manager, SEND Project Manager, Programme Manager, or SEN Programme Manager. 

You may have previously worked as a Children’s Support Worker, Families Support Worker, Senior Children’s Safeguarding Practitioner, SEN Practitioner, or Special Educational Needs & Disabilities Advisor. 

The closing date for applications is the 12th August 2020. 

Webrecruit and Family Action are equal opportunities employers, value diversity and are strongly committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all employees and all applicants for employment. Equal opportunities are the only acceptable way to conduct business and we believe that the more inclusive our environments are, the better our work will be.

So, if you’re seeking your next challenge as a Project Manager, please apply via the button shown. This vacancy is being advertised by Webrecruit. The services advertised by Webrecruit are those of an Employment Agency. 

Working hours: 37 hours per week

About us:

The National Lottery Community Fund is the largest community funder in the UK - we’re proud to award money raised by players of The National Lottery  to communities across the UK. Last year alone we gave out over half a billion pounds (£508.5 million) of National Lottery funding to over 11,000 community projects across the UK, enabling even more people and communities to bring their ideas and ambitions to life. We support a wide range of health, educational, environmental, and charitable projects with grants ranging from as little as £500 to multi-million-pound programmes. 86% of our new grants were for less than £10k.

At the heart of everything we do is the belief that when people are in the lead, communities thrive. National Lottery funding is open to everyone and we’re privileged to be able to work with the smallest of grassroots groups right up to large UK-wide charities. We have changed how we work across the Fund to help us serve people and communities more effectively, working flexibly and on their terms; working closer to communities.

About the Role:

We’re an award-winning team, established in 2017 to tell the story of the difference our funding makes. We’re finding new ways to gather and share knowledge about our grants, from using evidence and stories to write accessible, engaging content to building an evidence library of the Fund’s work. We’re also working to change how the whole organisation thinks about learning, to make the most of insights from our grantholders and our own staff. We want to tell the world about the extraordinary work the Fund supports, and to share those stories as vividly and accessibly as possible.

You can find out more about the work of our team on our website: The National Lottery Community Fund. 

We are looking for a Level 3 Junior Content Producer Apprentice (internal job title Knowledge and Learning Apprentice) to join our team in Birmingham.

This an entry level post, giving you the chance to develop and try out different elements of content production, from initial research, to bringing your findings together and presenting them in a range of different formats. We work on a range of topics, anything from tackling homelessness or loneliness, to the role of community groups during the pandemic.

As an apprentice:

• You’ll learn to research and find content by reviewing reports, databases, videos and websites. You’ll get to try out different interview techniques, by shadowing your colleagues and then talking to staff, charity workers and community representatives.
• You’ll work with colleagues to bring together and write up the findings. These could be in a range of formats from reports and webpages to summaries and blogs.
• You’ll find, tag, summarise and upload documents to our internal and external platforms. This is something you’ll do weekly, building your information management skills.
• You can also have a go at designing and producing multimedia content, such as podcasts, presentations, blogs, videos and/or vlogs.
• With our support, you’ll get to develop basic quantitative research skills by doing simple data analyses.
• You’ll also get to test our content on users to make sure it is engaging.

You’ll spend four days a week working with us and one day a week doing distance learning, one-to-one or group coaching with a qualified skills coach, or shadowing your colleagues.

We would particularly welcome applications from people from Black, Asian and other minority ethnic backgrounds and disabled people.

Contract Type: Two years fixed term contract

Hours: 37 Hours per week including 1 day a week at college or on-the-job learning

Interview Date: Interviews to be held on 8th, 9th, and 10th September

 

Essential Criteria:

What are we looking for?

• We need someone who loves reading and writing. We don’t mind how you gained your strong writing skills – perhaps through schoolwork, through personal journaling or creative writing, through your hobbies, volunteering or work experience.
• We want someone who is eager to communicate, to make an impact through their work.
• You have a curious mindset. You want to tell the whole story, which means researching it thoroughly. We need someone who cares about the detail and the context, and looks for ways to find out more.

Apprentices must meet the following criteria for the course aspect:

• Be at least 16 years old.
• Have English and Maths GCSEs at grade C (4) or above.
• Have the right to live and work in the UK.
• Not hold a qualification in a similar subject at level 3 or higher. Similar subjects include creating media content and creative and professional writing subjects. If you are not sure if your qualification rules you out for this post, then please do contact us for advice.

Desirable Criteria:

• Some experience of producing multimedia content such as blogs, reports, presentations, podcasts, vlogs or web pages.

For You:

We seek to develop our staff and offer a wide range of personal development opportunities.

We offer a wide range of generous benefits including:

• Generous annual leave and company pension scheme
• Flexible working to support staff with their work/life balance, taking into account things such as caring responsibilities, worship and attendance at religious festivals
• Enhanced paid maternity, paternity and adoption leave
• Season ticket and cycle to work loans
• Paid volunteering leave

How to Apply:

Visit our website on The National Lottery Community Fund for further details about the vacancy and our application process.

 

Equal Opportunities:

 Equality, diversity and inclusion in our grant-making, and amongst our people, are all vital to our success in supporting people and communities to thrive.  We believe our people should represent the communities, organisations and individuals we work with.  We are committed to being an inclusive and great place to work, and recognise our people come from diverse backgrounds. We are a Disability Confident employer and positively welcome applications from disabled people.